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Midlife Creativity and Identity - Life into Art (Paperback)
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Midlife Creativity and Identity - Life into Art (Paperback)
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Where does 'art' come from, and what is the 'meaning' of
creativity? What inspires an artist in the middle phase of life and
what value is placed on the pursuit of originality? Where do
innovative ideas come from and how do they transmogrify into songs,
art and stories? These are some of the questions posed in this
ethnographic study, undertaken over three years and involving male
and female musicians, artists and literary authors in the UK, some
amateur and some professional but all dedicated to the invention of
artistic legacy. This book sets out to understand the influences,
spaces and routines of creative people experiencing midlife via an
evocative exploration of biography, self-identity, inspiration,
sociality, beliefs, emotion, career trajectory and life choices,
and considered via in-situ observations of rehearsal, performance,
exhibition, environment and working philosophy that contribute to
the meaningful creation of novelty. While life experiences
influence both the chosen and developed techniques of creating art
and the art itself, artistic virtuosity is also arguably a
conscious resistance to the banal securities of midlife in an age
of inherent, perceived insecurity. Processes of creation, spaces of
inspiration and the individualised value placed on artistic
endeavour in uncertain times - and at an uncertain time in life -
are understood via an original theory of the 'mezzanine', a
sought-after in-between zone that abandons the ordinary and
embraces an almost anarchic uncertainty where the promise of
possibility and the pursuit of the delight of innovation provide an
antidote to the banal 'everyday' and the routine expectancies of
middle age.
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