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Features an argument that ranges from highly theoretical speculations to highly topical problems of modern art and practical hints for the art teacher, and it is most unlikely that I can find a reader who will feel at home on every level of the argument.

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Preface BOOK ONE: CONTROLLING THE WORLD Part I: Order in Chaos 1. The Child's Vision of the World 2. The Two Kinds of Attention 3. Unconscious Scanning Part II: Creative Conflict 4. The Fertile Motif and the Happy Accident 5. The Fragmentation of 'Modern Art' 6. The Inner Fabric Part III: Teaching Creativity 7. The Three Phases of Creativity 8. Enveloping Pictorial Space 9. Abstraction 10. Training Spontaneity through the Intellect BOOK TWO: STIRRING THE IMAGINATION Part IV: The Theme of the Dying God 11. The Minimum Content of Art 12. The Self-Creating God 13. The Scattered and Buried God 14. The Devoured and Burned God Part V: Theoretical Conclusions 15. Towards a Revision of Current Theory 16. Ego Dissociation Appendix: Glossary References Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 24/05/1971
      ISBN13: 9780520038455, 978-0520038455
      ISBN10: 0520038452
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Features an argument that ranges from highly theoretical speculations to highly topical problems of modern art and practical hints for the art teacher, and it is most unlikely that I can find a reader who will feel at home on every level of the argument.

      Table of Contents
      Preface BOOK ONE: CONTROLLING THE WORLD Part I: Order in Chaos 1. The Child's Vision of the World 2. The Two Kinds of Attention 3. Unconscious Scanning Part II: Creative Conflict 4. The Fertile Motif and the Happy Accident 5. The Fragmentation of 'Modern Art' 6. The Inner Fabric Part III: Teaching Creativity 7. The Three Phases of Creativity 8. Enveloping Pictorial Space 9. Abstraction 10. Training Spontaneity through the Intellect BOOK TWO: STIRRING THE IMAGINATION Part IV: The Theme of the Dying God 11. The Minimum Content of Art 12. The Self-Creating God 13. The Scattered and Buried God 14. The Devoured and Burned God Part V: Theoretical Conclusions 15. Towards a Revision of Current Theory 16. Ego Dissociation Appendix: Glossary References Index

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