The Creative Process. A Case for Meaning-Making
Since the beginning of time art-making has been a tool to express, preserve, and challenge the extant knowledge in society. Artists do this by finding or creatively constructing new understandings in society. An artist is able to do this through the medium he/she uses to relay the message of the art...
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| author | Phokeng T. Setai Jan K. Coetzee Christoph Maeder Magdalena Wojciechowska Leane Ackermann |
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| description | Since the beginning of time art-making has been a tool to express, preserve, and challenge the extant knowledge in society. Artists do this by finding or creatively constructing new understandings in society. An artist is able to do this through the medium he/she uses to relay the message of the artwork. The medium that an artist uses to express his/her artistic concept has an impact on the character that the artwork will take. The medium of expression forms but one of the many considerations that go through an artist’s mind when creating art. In the process of art-making, an artist seeks to create new meanings or re-imagine old ones by organizing materials and concepts. In so doing, he/she discovers novel ways to get ideas across, and thereby creates new interpretations of social phenomena. In this article, attention is given to meaning-making as a conscious and iterative component of creating art. From a series of in-depth interviews, the authors analyze the inward processes that occur within six artists’ creative praxes and how these lead their construction of meaning. Attention is also paid to how the artists manipulate concepts and how they construct and deconstruct their understandings of these concepts in the course of their creative endeavors. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6988c57cfce24418997a83eaf33ee6352022-12-22T03:37:54ZengLodz University PressQualitative Sociology Review1733-80772018-12-01144869910.18778/1733-8077.14.4.063981The Creative Process. A Case for Meaning-MakingPhokeng T. Setai0Jan K. CoetzeeChristoph Maeder1Magdalena Wojciechowska2Leane Ackermann3Phokeng T. Setai, Jan K. Coetzee, Leane Ackermann - University of the Free State, South AfricaUniversity of Zurich, SwitzerlandUniversity of Lodz, PolandUniversity of the Free State, South AfricaSince the beginning of time art-making has been a tool to express, preserve, and challenge the extant knowledge in society. Artists do this by finding or creatively constructing new understandings in society. An artist is able to do this through the medium he/she uses to relay the message of the artwork. The medium that an artist uses to express his/her artistic concept has an impact on the character that the artwork will take. The medium of expression forms but one of the many considerations that go through an artist’s mind when creating art. In the process of art-making, an artist seeks to create new meanings or re-imagine old ones by organizing materials and concepts. In so doing, he/she discovers novel ways to get ideas across, and thereby creates new interpretations of social phenomena. In this article, attention is given to meaning-making as a conscious and iterative component of creating art. From a series of in-depth interviews, the authors analyze the inward processes that occur within six artists’ creative praxes and how these lead their construction of meaning. Attention is also paid to how the artists manipulate concepts and how they construct and deconstruct their understandings of these concepts in the course of their creative endeavors.https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/qualit/article/view/3981Art-MakingCreative ProcessIntersubjectivityLifeworldLived ExperienceMeaningMeaning- MakingSignsSymbolsTypifications |
| spellingShingle | Phokeng T. Setai Jan K. Coetzee Christoph Maeder Magdalena Wojciechowska Leane Ackermann The Creative Process. A Case for Meaning-Making Qualitative Sociology Review Art-Making Creative Process Intersubjectivity Lifeworld Lived Experience Meaning Meaning- Making Signs Symbols Typifications |
| title | The Creative Process. A Case for Meaning-Making |
| title_full | The Creative Process. A Case for Meaning-Making |
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| title_short | The Creative Process. A Case for Meaning-Making |
| title_sort | creative process a case for meaning making |
| topic | Art-Making Creative Process Intersubjectivity Lifeworld Lived Experience Meaning Meaning- Making Signs Symbols Typifications |
| url | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/qualit/article/view/3981 |
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