Did you knew that is a “museum of Bad art”?
“The collection is a tribute to the
sincerity of the artists who persevered
with their art despite something going
horribly wrong in the process”
Charlie & Sheeba, Anonymous Gilded Nude, Anonymous
Creativity and authorship
Idea of creativity
The idea of creativity is central in art and design education.
Creativity is —> considered an important part of what makes us employable.
—> recognised as a driver of economic growth.
******The creative industries have been the fastest growing sector of the UK economy in the last 10‐15 years.
This photo has a deep meaning and it tells the truth--> this is our world
Different models of creative practitioner
Celebrated sole author, collaborator, facilitator, conceptual thinker, maker e.t.c
They —> are worth more than £36 billion a year and they generate £70,000 every minute for the UK economy, employ 1.5 million people in the UK.
The term is also used by: computer scientists, chefs, tourism managers, engineers, marketeers e.t.c
media and design our understanding of creativity (and what the creative practitioner does) has changed historically. It has meant different things at different times
18th century
We had the Montagu House, c. 1715,
first site of British Museum
The Louvre Palace (opened in 1793) and
the Pyramid, which was completed in 1989
Romanticism
Movement in Europe across art.
How small is man to the nature chaos
Modernism
Consept, creativity, popular, understanding people free-away. Also interior designers became modernism.
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917
Creativity object that has a perp use. We don’t have painters e.t.c. We have designers, architects, e.t.c
—> the together in a space
—>fashiom—>experimentaly (shoe hat)
**Jeff koons—> post modern
Postmodernism: mid‐late 20th century
Creativity is in mixing high and low cultural forms.
Andreas Gursky, "99 Cent", 1999
Creative industries
Combines the idea of the creative arts with an interest, it commerce and marketplace (don’t agree)
New media technologie
Political interest in creativity as enterprise
Adorno and Max—> view of the masses as passive and easily dyped has always been problematic. Their criticism of mass entertainment stemmed from a hatred of fascism.
—> In 1944 they coined the term ‘culture industry’ to describe the products of mass culture. They argued
that these products were:
—>Homogeneous (standardised, uniform, all working in
the same way) and Predictable (we know what form the song will take from the first few bars, or how the tension in a Hollywood film will be resolved)
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