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Russell David - Marion Milner On Creativity - Hardcover
Russell David - Marion Milner On Creativity - Hardcover
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Description: This is a book about reading drawing and getting better - - and what they have to do with one another. The British essayist artist and psychoanalyst Marion Milner (1900 - 1996) thought deeply about how reading drawing and getting better related to each other. The guiding question of Milner's life was of how people come to feel alive in and feel creatively responsive to their own lives. In pursuit of this Milner explored fields as diverse as anthropology folklore education literature art philosophy mysticism and psychology. She became one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary thinkers about creativity. David Russell shows that there is no writer quite like Milner and the rewards of reading her are immense. Key to all her writing is her search for creative practices of attention - - of how we pay attention in the life we have. She helped to develop a kind of psychoanalysis in Britain that focussed on the ways people relate to their own lives and the lives of others. Milner was literary and artistic; she took herself as her subject. Her writing performs ways of responding associatively to the words and images she encountered. In the process she found she was a quite different person than she had first thought. In the 1930s Milner invented a form for writing about reading: an original kind of diary book which is structured by the experience of going back to and rereading past diaries. In her interplay of past and present selves she finds new ways of looking at and experiencing the world.
Title: Marion Milner On Creativity
Author(s): Russell David
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192859204
Pages: 192 Pages, 11 Black And White Illustrations
Publication Date: 1/10/2025
Series: My Reading
Category: Creative Therapy (Eg Art, Music, Drama)
Description: This is a book about reading drawing and getting better - - and what they have to do with one another. The British essayist artist and psychoanalyst Marion Milner (1900 - 1996) thought deeply about how reading drawing and getting better related to each other. The guiding question of Milner's life was of how people come to feel alive in and feel creatively responsive to their own lives. In pursuit of this Milner explored fields as diverse as anthropology folklore education literature art philosophy mysticism and psychology. She became one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary thinkers about creativity. David Russell shows that there is no writer quite like Milner and the rewards of reading her are immense. Key to all her writing is her search for creative practices of attention - - of how we pay attention in the life we have. She helped to develop a kind of psychoanalysis in Britain that focussed on the ways people relate to their own lives and the lives of others. Milner was literary and artistic; she took herself as her subject. Her writing performs ways of responding associatively to the words and images she encountered. In the process she found she was a quite different person than she had first thought. In the 1930s Milner invented a form for writing about reading: an original kind of diary book which is structured by the experience of going back to and rereading past diaries. In her interplay of past and present selves she finds new ways of looking at and experiencing the world.
Title: Marion Milner On Creativity
Author(s): Russell David
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192859204
Pages: 192 Pages, 11 Black And White Illustrations
Publication Date: 1/10/2025
Series: My Reading
Category: Creative Therapy (Eg Art, Music, Drama)
