Imagination in action : secrets for unleashing creative expression / Shaun McNiff.
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TextPublisher: Boston : Shambhala, 2015Edition: First EditionDescription: 236 pages ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781611802016 (paperback)
- 153.35 MCN 23
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 153.35 MCN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39002100641472 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A guide to the theory and practice of creativity, with proven techniques for jump-starting the creative process-from an esteemed art educator and therapist
There are art teachers-and then there's ShaunMcNiff. An accomplished painter himself, he has spent a career helping people access their creative potential through expressive arts therapy. Now, he is sharing the secrets he's learned fromobserving his own creative process as well as that of others-both those who identify as artists and those who don't. The result is nothing less than a master class in creativity by one of the great creative theorists and practitioners of our time.
"This is intended as a practical text," Shaun says, "a creativity primer, striving to capture the essential things that have been of use to me and others."
The wealth of instruction he provides here in these essential things will be indispensable to artists of all stripes, as well as to all who strive to express themselves with honesty and authenticity using any of the media life makes available.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-236).
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Prelude (p. 1)
- Part 1 Creativity Is a Force of Nature
- 1 It Can Be as Natural as Breathing (p. 9)
- 2 Re-Visioning the Creative Act (p. 13)
- Part 2 The Best Things Happen
- 3 A Failure-Proof Starter (p. 23)
- 4 Move ... and Pause, Too (p. 28)
- 5 Shifting to Response Mode (p. 39)
- 6 Momentum and Creative Contagion (p. 48)
- 7 Shaping and Moving Things Around (p. 54)
- 8 Aspirations and Desire (p. 60)
- Part 3 To Witness Rather Than to Judge
- 9 Witnessing Others and the Self in Action (p. 67)
- 10 Depth Is on the Surface (p. 71)
- 11 Knowing the Judge (p. 74)
- 12 Overthinking (p. 79)
- 13 Dynamics of Witnessing (p. 83)
- 14 Leading (p. 92)
- 15 Interpretation as Witnessing (p. 98)
- 16 Contemplating Physical Things (p. 106)
- 17 Thin Places (p. 110)
- Part 4 Creating with the Shadow
- 18 Art Alchemy (p. 119)
- 19 Accepting Angst (p. 126)
- 20 An Engine of Change (p. 131)
- 21 Sanitizing (p. 135)
- 22 Welcoming the Strange (p. 143)
- Part 5 Resistance Is a Gateway
- 23 Stalled (p. 151)
- 24 Letting Go and Forgetting (p. 156)
- 25 Feeling Safe (p. 159)
- 26 Using Resistance (p. 165)
- Part 6 Quality Matters
- 27 Unique Character (p. 171)
- 28 Skill (p. 180)
- 29 Perfectionism and the Role of Mistakes (p. 189)
- 30 Let Nature Act through You (p. 203)
- 31 Make the Commitment (p. 211)
- 32 Serendipity and Endless Possibilities (p. 229)
- Notes (p. 233)