from Part II - Entangled Timescales of Visual Arts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 March 2025
Chapter 8 focuses on the timescale in which the short-term timescale of activity and experience is embedded, namely, the creative artist’s life course. It discusses artistic talent, art school and training, the artist’s personality, including the relationship between psychopathology and art, the outsider phenomenon, motivation, inspiration, and drives for artistic creation, artistic identities, intersectionality, and the artistic persona, all of which are complex phenomena. The chapter also discusses the complexity of the relationship between personality and artistic creation, based on a complex dynamic systems approach to personality itself.
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