The Social Imagination

Résumé du livre

The Social Imagination discusses the educational and artistic development of Tim Rollins, Martha Rollins, Doug Ash ford, Julie Ault, Karen Ranispacher, and Krzysztof Wodicko. The concept of creativity as problem finding outlined in Gctzels and Csikszentmihalyi's The Creative Vision (1976) is critically examined. In that book, Gctzels and Csikszentmihaly focused on personal aspects of the creative process in contrast. The Social Imagination argues that creativity and creative development involve social forms of problem finding, reflecting the relative influence of different cultural sources. The Social Imagination provides biographical overviews of the six cultural activists' artistic development. It then compares their artistic development to that of the art students discussed in The Creative Vision, as well as to other art students and artists in literature on the recruitment and socialization of artists.