The New Spirit of Creativity
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0280-5 (ISBN)
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The New Spirit of Creativity examines creativity as an embedded institutional value and priority within public art institutions and higher education. The book unpacks the everyday work, organization, and administration of artistic creativity and its clashes with a "new spirit" of creativity that has widely taken hold.
Based on fieldwork conducted at three art and design universities in Canada, Saara Liinamaa tackles the fraught landscape of contemporary higher education, the uncertainties of cultural work, and ongoing concerns around austerity in Canada. This book traces how creativity is not simply practiced within the art school, but also inequitably recognized and rewarded. Liinamaa identifies the many compromises required between artistic creativity and the new spirit, while demonstrating how not all compromises are created equally; compromise can support or erode creative diversity. Drawing on a range of original sources – including interviews, participant observation, policy and planning, and media – this work makes a compelling case as to why art and design schools are worthy of sustained attention. By connecting shared interests across sociology, education, cultural studies, art history, and cultural theory, The New Spirit of Creativity makes a novel and agenda-setting contribution to our understanding of artistic creativity, compromise, and cultural work.
Saara Liinamaa is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph.
Introduction: The New Spirit of Creativity
Section I: Creativity, Critique, and the Art School
1. Our New Spirit and the Dilemmas of Artistic Critique
Positioning the New Spirit of Creativity
Fond Memories of Rebellion
2. What Could Be More Creative Than an Art School?: Canada’s Art and Design Universities
Art and Design Higher Education in Canada
The Art School, the Art College, the Art University
New Challenges, Familiar Stories
Section II: Everyday Work at Imagination University
Meet the Faculty
3. Welcome to the Department of Non-Applied Creativity: Strategic Planning and Talk of Research
The Dilemmas of Research at the Art and Design University
Talk of Research
The Rise of Niche Bureaucracy
4. Creative Excellence, Ambiguity, and Audit Culture
Designating and Measuring Creative Value
Judging Others and the Boundaries of Creative Practices
The Openness and Uncertainty of Interpretation
5. Performing at the “Shit Show”: The Conscripted Performers of Institutional Identity
The Cultural and Economic Performativity of Work
Creative Identities at Work
The Institution and the Abject
The Cost of Remedy
6. Navigating the Permanent-temporary Divide: Insecurity, Flexibility, and Nostalgia
Academic Work and Labour in Transition
Redeeming Insecurity: Distancing Strategies and Associations
Exiting the Institution
7. Rocks and Bubbles: Metaphors of Institutional Duress
Describing Institutional Landscapes in Times of Uncertainty
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
The Fragility of Creative Past and Future
Same Difference
Conclusion
The Terms of Compromise
Methodological Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.07.2022 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 11 b&w figures, 1 b&w table |
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 157 x 231 mm |
| Gewicht | 500 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-0280-X / 148750280X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-0280-5 / 9781487502805 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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