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The Creativity Complex - Art, Tech, and the Seduction of an Idea
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“Creativity” is a word that excites and dazzles us. It promises
brilliance and achievement; it is a shield against conformity, a
channel for innovation across the arts, sciences, technology, and
education, and a mechanism for economic revival and personal
success. But it has not always evoked these ideas. Once a term
reserved for the ultimate power of the divine, and later associated
primarily with the work of the artist, creativity has become
attached to ideas about economics, politics, and the self in
particular ways. The Creativity Complex traces the history of how
creativity has come to mean the things it now does, and explores
the ethical implications of how we use this term today for both the
arts and for the social world more broadly.Richly researched, the
book explores how creativity has been invoked in arenas as varied
as Enlightenment debates over the nature of the cognition,
Victorian-era intelligence research, the Cold War technology race,
contemporary K-12 education, and even modern electoral politics.
Along the way, the book turns to a set of art works—from mobile
steampunk sculptures to bicentennial adaptations of Frankenstein to
a musical about the 2016 US Presidential election—that ask how
our ideas about creativity are bound up with those of
self-fulfillment, responsibility, and the individual, and how these
might seduce us into joining a worldview and even a set of social
imperatives that we might otherwise find troubling.
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Imprint: |
The University of Michigan Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 2023 |
Authors: |
Shannon Steen
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
256 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-472-05627-9 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-472-05627-1 |
Barcode: |
9780472056279 |
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