Abjuring largeness and portentous brushwork as before, these works tackle more directly the immense subject of creativity itself and diagram it in ways both pointedly humorous and expansive.
True to its title, Fear Fun is often about hedonism gone awry, but it is also astute on the subject of creativity, in the hallucinatory I'm Writing a Novel and the elegiac Now I'm Learning to Love the War: "When it's my time to go/Gonna leave behind things that won't decompose".
Julia Cameron calls this ritual "morning pages" in her seminal book on the subject of creativity, The Artist's Way.
He is quoted on the subject of creativity and the particular ideas that photographers are drawn to.
According to David Burkus in his book, "The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas," a mythology has grown up around the subject of creativity.
Temple Grandin, renowned animal scientist and one of the first to talk publically about her own autism, speaks on the subject of creativity and problem solving in a compelling animated interview by Quoted Studios, Blank on Blank, and Drew Christie.
In any area of creativity, creative products tended to be judged mostly by formal experts on the subject-matter.
He gave subjects a standard test of creativity known as "Duncker's candle problem".
We had independent judges rate the subjects' answers for degree of creativity, which can be done reliably.
Raters were instructed to rate from 1 (lowest creativity) to 5 (highest creativity) each subjects' DT product according to their own notion of "creativity", and instructed to bin subjects to conform to a normal distribution (e.g., 5% each 1's and 5's, 10% each 2's and 4's, 70% 3's).
