V. Teaching Creativity Opening An artifact is a work of art in so far as it sensitively, vitally and intensely embodies inwardness in an interpersonal medium… Inwardness is the world as it is experienced. My inwardness is the world as it appears to me. Every thing visual is soulful. Direct comparison with the model and […]
Living Art- IV. Teaching Personal Creative Expression- Painting Archetypes
Painting Archetypes 1.1 Opening Art is personal. Yet it is crucial to avoid the stereotypical notion of inwardness as entirely idiosyncratic. – First as an artist then as a teacher I began to work through “archetypes.”[1] 1.2 “Looking at the European “old masters” you were probably first struck by their perceptual accuracy. Yet for the […]
Living Art- IV. Teaching Personal Creative Expression- Painting the Scene
4. Painting the Scene 1 I remember walking across The Brooklyn Bridge with my parents when I was a young boy. We looked down at the old stained worn wooden piers. I was surprised when my father said, “They would be wonderful to paint.” It took a great leap of imagination for his and […]
A Dream of Reason II. Part 4 Entering from the Act of Writing and the Notion of Dialogue
Entering from the Act of Writing and the Notion of Dialogue (2000) 1. Opening 1.1 Dialogue, with its openness and equality, is a species of human connection. It is not limited to persons and literary texts. Personal-interpersonal patterns in all realms (e.g., intrapsychic, intergroup) can participate in dialogue. Dialogue recognizes, accepts, and struggles to mediate, […]
A Dream of Reason V. Wild Flowers Again Part 1 Retrospective Field Notes on the Sociology of the Early Sixties
V. Wild flowers Again: A Dialogue of Complementary Discontinuity Retrospective Field Notes on the Sociology of the Early Sixties (1988) Opening 1.1 1.11 Here thought – as a caged animal – sniffs and turns in a cage. Again and again it touches the barrier and turns back. The essay ends (I cannot say concludes) with […]
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