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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780553403321

Autore

Shoham S. Giora <1929->

Titolo

Art, myth and deviance [[electronic resource] /] / Shlomo Giora Shoham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2006

Newcastle-upon-Tyne : , : Cambridge Scholars, , 2006

ISBN

1-282-04285-8

9786612042850

1-4438-0297-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Disciplina

701.15

Soggetti

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Artists - Mental health

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; NOTES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Myths have long been considered the prime linkage between nature and culture, but we hold that they are more than this. The mythogene, which is our conceptualization of a connecting structure, links subject and object, history and transcendence, but above all is the blueprint for creativity. The volume deals, therefore, with the innovative conception of the author as to the process of creativity. Van Gogh had a revelation as to how the whirling cypresses and dancing stars would look at night....