Visual Art. Homospatial Thinking in the Creative Process

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3265041
AutoresAlbert Rothenberg (autor de correspondencia)
Año1980
Volumen13
Número1
Páginas17
Fecha de publicación1980-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLeonardo (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0024-094X • E-ISSN: 1530-9282
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1577915
OpenAlexW2322695184
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas13

There is a widespread belief that inspirations from unconscious sources play an important role in creativity in the arts, the sciences and other fields. Similarly, many sophisticated persons believe that analogic thinking (the construction of analogies) is significant. Research done by the author, consisting of extensive and intensive interviews focused on the creative process of a large number of persons concerned with innovation and invention, and controlled psychological experiments, indicates that a conscious and intentional type of process, designated as homospatial thinking , plays a major role. This process consists of actively conceiving two or more discrete entities occupying the same mentally represented space or spatial location, a conception leading to the articulation of new identities. Many seemingly unconscious effects, as well as presumed products of analogic thinking, such as effective linguistic and visual metaphors, are derived from this special type of thinking. Although there is a good deal of data regarding the operation of this process in the literary arts, music and the sciences, the focus here is on its role in the visual arts. The end product of homospatial thinking in the visualarts, the visual metaphor, is defined and described in connection with works by Kokoschka, Moore, and Leonardo Da Vinci. A series of observations by artists from different periods of history with diverse types of styles and orientations is then provided to clarify and document the role and mode of operation of the homospatial thought process

Aesthetics · Art · Cognitive science · Mathematics education · Process (computing) · Visual arts · Visual thinking · Attention Economy in Education and Business · Computer Science · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology