Creative Practices for Visual Artists

Table of contents

1. Cover Page
2. Creative Practices for Visual Artists
3. Title
4. Copyright
5. Contents
6. Acknowledgments
7. 1 A Shifting Landscape
   1. A New Approach
   2. Notes
8. 2 The Problem with Creativity
   1. Problem-Solving
   2. The Real Art
   3. Modes of Creativity
   4. Talents vs. Intelligences
   5. Another Problem with Creativity
   6. The Biggest Problem with Creativity
   7. Notes
9. 3 Time and Space
   1. What Is a Studio?
   2. Physical Spaces
   3. Spaces in Time
   4. Interior Space and Silence
   5. The Perfect Studio?
   6. Notes
10. 4 Research and Embodied Knowledge
    1. The Pursuit of Technical Mastery
    2. Embodied Research Outside the Studio
    3. Feeding the Artist
    4. Interwoven
    5. Notes
11. 5 Productive Interaction and Conflict
    1. The Gifts of Anxiety and Fear
    2. Concurrent Projects and Interleaving
    3. Creating Interaction and Conflict
    4. Embracing External Interaction and Conflict
    5. Unwanted Interaction and Conflict
    6. Starting Again
    7. Notes
12. 6 Process Is the Product
    1. Why Do Artists Make Art?
    2. Artists’ Stories
    3. Notes
13. 7 Creative Practices
    1. Research Proposals
    2. Weekly Schedule
    3. Weekly Strategies
    4. After the Class
    5. Other Sample Research Proposals
    6. Notes
14. 8 Participating Artist Biographies
15. Index