Lynn Millette

The Experience of Artmaking

Body, self and word as ontological environment

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book came from a belief that an inquiry into the
creative
process would provide me a different perspective from
aesthetics,
which was familiar to me as an artist. The idea of
creativity is
shrouded in mystery. I have often wondered whether my
brain
functions in the same way when I am painting as when
I am solving
a mathematical problem. The purpose of this book is
to look into the
nature of creativity to better understand what it is
to be an artist. I
know that all of my senses are implicated in my art
making process.
Paintings come from deep inside and materialise
before me on the
surface of a canvas. Experience and time are visible
in the brush
marks. My creative process is phenomenological when I
consider the
things that I perceive while focusing on my senses. I
can decide
whether or not I am open to awareness of my organism
and as I
focus on my physical state, metaphors emerge. The
bridge that I
cross from inside to the outside of my body when
making art is not
the same as the bridge I cross when I speak and
write. I wrote this
book for artists, teachers and all who might be
interested in a
discussion of art making as qualitative research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 232g
• ISBN-13: 9783838303437
• ISBN-10: 3838303431
• Artikelnr.: 26603023

Autorenporträt

Lynn Millette is an artist who has substantiated her inquiriesinto perception, creation and ontology through an active art practice. She has acomprehensive background in disciplines related to culture including the new technologies,philosophy, psychology, literature, and the humanities. She works and teaches in Montreal.