Michèle Betty, Sally Ann Murray
R395.00
In a world where artistic expression and creative endevours hold the power to shape reality, The Creative Arts: On Practice, Making and Meaning delves into the intricate and transformative nature of artistic practice.
The Creative Arts: On Practice, Making and Meaning
This collection of essays explores the challenges of producing creative work, the intersection of diverse media, and the generative encounter of inspiration, idea, materials and innovation. Spanning a broad spectrum of artistic fields – from visual arts to music and literature, and from podcasting to performance and dance – these essays shed light on the creative processes and critical insights that occur when imagination meets discipline.
A poet making complex cultural inscriptions from words; a dance curator rechoreographing performance as contested space; a critic mulling over the practice of reviewing; a creative-writing teacher re-shaping the writing workshop; a novelist posing speculative fiction as a genre through which to re-view South Africa’s past, present and possible future.
They offer inspirational routes for making, even as they acknowledge failure, and harness vulnerability as a catalyst for artistic breakthrough. The Creative Arts: On Practice, Making and Meaning celebrates the interplay of imagination and skill, trial and error, daring readers to unlock their own potential as thoughtful artistic practitioners.
