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Chapter 8 - Timescales of Artistic Careers

from Part II - Entangled Timescales of Visual Arts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2025

Paul van Geert
Paul van Geert
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Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
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Chapter 8 focuses on the timescale in which the short-term timescale of activity and experience is embedded, namely, the creative artist’s life course. It discusses artistic talent, art school and training, the artist’s personality, including the relationship between psychopathology and art, the outsider phenomenon, motivation, inspiration, and drives for artistic creation, artistic identities, intersectionality, and the artistic persona, all of which are complex phenomena. The chapter also discusses the complexity of the relationship between personality and artistic creation, based on a complex dynamic systems approach to personality itself.

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life coursetalentart schoolpersonalitypsychopathologyoutsidersmotivationinspirationidentityartistic persona
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A Complex Systems View on the Visual Arts , pp. 167 - 224
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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  • Timescales of Artistic Careers
  • Paul van Geert, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Book: A Complex Systems View on the Visual Arts
  • Online publication: 20 March 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009378970.011
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  • Timescales of Artistic Careers
  • Paul van Geert, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Book: A Complex Systems View on the Visual Arts
  • Online publication: 20 March 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009378970.011
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  • Timescales of Artistic Careers
  • Paul van Geert, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Book: A Complex Systems View on the Visual Arts
  • Online publication: 20 March 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009378970.011
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