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  1. The creativity of action.Hans Joas, Jeremy Gaines & Paul Keast - 1998 - Sociological Theory 16 (3):282.
    Hans Joas is one of the foremost social theorists in Germany today. Based on Joas’s celebrated study of George Herbert Mead, this work reevaluates the contribution of American pragmatism and European philosophical anthropology to theories of action in the social sciences. Joas also establishes direct ties between Mead’s work and approaches drawn from German traditions of philosophical anthropology. Joas argues for adding a third model of action to the two predominant models of rational and normative action—one that emphasizes the creative (...)
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  • Art Worlds.Howard S. Becker - 1982 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 41 (2):226-226.
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  • The open work.Umberto Eco - 1989 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
    Essays discuss poetry, communication, television, form, aesthetics, bad taste, and art.
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  • Creativity and cultural improvisation.Elizabeth Hallam & Tim Ingold (eds.) - 2007 - New York, NY: Berg.
    There is no prepared script for social and cultural life. People work it out as they go along. Creativity and Cultural Improvisation casts fresh, anthropological eyes on the cultural sites of creativity that form part of our social matrix. The book explores the ways creative agency is attributed in the graphic and performing arts and in intellectual property law. It shows how the sources of creativity are embedded in social, political and religious institutions, examines the relation between creativity and the (...)
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  • Tradition and Innovation: The Idea of Civilization as Culture and Its Significance.H. T. Wilson - 1984 - Routledge.
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  • Art as Experience.John Dewey - 2005 - Penguin Books.
    Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, Art as Experience has grown to be considered internationally as the most distinguished work ever written by an American on the formal structure and characteristic effects of all the arts: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature.
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