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The mind of the artist : personality and the drive to create /

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"How does one get to be an artist? How does one get to be anything at all? It's not as if we come into the world with pre-set destinies, or do we? and if we do, what's actually baked in, what's learned, what's a product of circumstance? Jackson Pollock started by painting Ju...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schultz, William Todd (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Artists > Psychology.
Artistes > Psychologie.
Artists > Psychology
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Traits, states, and stories
  • Trait-based origins of creativity
  • The unifying glue
  • Chaos rainbows
  • Two exemplary creators : Davie Bowie and Frida Kahlo
  • The unhappiness muse
  • The myth of the mentally ill artist
  • Art and suicide.