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posted on 2010-01-01, 00:00 authored by Mirjana LozanovskaMirjana Lozanovska
Creativity can be related to the human capacity to make, but with more emphasis on the process of making and the way the thing made reveals this. Creativity can also be related to production or objects that involve beauty, innovation, pleasure and ideas beyond the functional, rational and economic. Creativity can thus be associated with the human subject and/ or the object produced. The subject and object of creativity are sometimes entwined, and often represented as symbiotic in relation to artists and artistic production. In the seminal text Keywords, Raymond Williams (1976: 76) explains the historical associations between the words 'create' and 'creation' and the 'divine'; and later associations with the poet's and the artist's productions, leading eventually to the 'creative arts: However, the subject and object of creativity are not the same, as illustrated in the study of archaeological artefacts, where often the human subject (maker) is unknown. It is important they are not merged, and in this text I will try to respond to each part.

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Title of book

Creativity, design and education : theories, positions and challenges

Pagination

86 - 92

Publisher

Australian Learning and Teaching Council

Place of publication

Strawberry Hills, N. S. W.

ISBN-13

9780980554533

Language

eng

Publication classification

BN Other book chapter, or book chapter not attributed to Deakin

Editor/Contributor(s)

A Williams, M Ostwald, H Askland

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