Midlife creativity and identity : life into art

Where does 'art' come from, and what is the 'meaning' of creativity? What inspires an artist in the middle phase of life and what value is placed on the pursuit of originality? Where do innovative ideas come from and how do they transmogrify into songs, art and stories? These...

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Main Author Miles, Philip (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
Subjects
Creative ability.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Midlife crisis.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781787543331
9781787543355
DOI10.1108/9781787543331
Physical Description1 online resource (ix, 203 pages) ; cm

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Table of Contents:
  • Prelims
  • Introduction: Life into Art
  • Transformations
  • Music, Midlife and Authenticity
  • Lost in Space: Music and Aura
  • Music, Sociality and Identity
  • Art and Identity
  • The Subterranean River
  • Down in the Woods
  • Inspiration by the Sea
  • Literary Midlife Solitude Sitting
  • Living a Dream and Dreaming a Living
  • Shifting Rhythms and a Sense of Purpose
  • Philip Miles (pp. 129 - 144)
  • The Mezzanine and Midlife Creativity
  • Afterword: Monday Afternoon and the Millennium
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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