Creative Realities [Paperback]

Maxine Borowsky Junge (Author)

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Publication Date: June 18, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0761810854 | ISBN-13: 978-0761810858

Creative Realities: The Search for Meanings brings a unique approach to the difficult study of the creativity of artists through a researcher who is also an artist. Maxine Borowski Junge explores the creative processes of fourteen visual artists and writers through interviews and examination of their work. She accomplished this through a four part alternative realities perspective which also includes a documentation of her own work as an artist. The four case studies establish differences between the creative experience and the interaction with the outside world. Distinctive patterns of relationship are discovered between the artist in the creative mode and his or her personality in the outside world. The patterns noticed, designated 'The Ariadne Effect,' represents the effect that the specific realities have on the creative process, yet noting that the particular universe does not create creativity.

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...a helpful conceptual framework for assessing general life orientation, as well as suggesting alternative approaches for art or art therapy.>>>>

...a helpful conceptual framework for assessing general life orientation, as well as suggesting alternative approaches for art or art therapy.

About the Author

Maxine Borowsky Junge is Chair and Associate Professor of the Loyola Marymount University Graduate Department of Marital and Family Therapy (Clinical Art Therapy).

Product Details

• Paperback: 378 pages
• Publisher: University Press Of America (June 18, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761810854
• ISBN-13: 978-0761810858
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,379,660 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An in-depth exploration of artistic creative work, November 10, 1998

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Marc Tassoul ([e-mail]) (Delft, The Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creative Realities (Hardcover)

An in-depth study (also a PhD thesis) of different creative processes and works both through personal experience and through interviews with artists, based on a model of realities developed by Will McWhinney in Paths of Change (1992). From my perspective: not a beginners guide to creativity, highly demanding on the reader, but a very important piece of work.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An in-depth exploration of artistic creative work, November 10, 1998

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This review is from: Creative Realities (Hardcover)

An in-depth study (also a PhD thesis) of different creative processes and works both through personal experience and through interviews with artists, based on a model of realities developed by Will McWhinney in Paths of Change (1992). From my perspective: not a beginners guide to creativity, highly demanding on the reader, but a very important piece of work.