Andrew Steptoe
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198523734
- eISBN:
- 9780191688997
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198523734.003.0011
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
This chapter analyses the issue of artistic temperament and creativity as well as personalities of artists in the Italian Renaissance through the Lives of the Artists, by Giorgio Vasari (1511–74), a ...
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This chapter analyses the issue of artistic temperament and creativity as well as personalities of artists in the Italian Renaissance through the Lives of the Artists, by Giorgio Vasari (1511–74), a prolific painter and architect. He assumed firstly that these painters, sculptors, and architects conformed to the modern view of artistic temperament, secondly that they had characteristics which were socially acceptable within the constraints of the era, and finally, that the personalities of the artists have no commonalities and would be distributed randomly across socially desirable and less acceptable idiosyncratic characteristics. It is interesting that in the analysis presented in this chapter, the more successful artists of the Italian Renaissance also appear to have coupled creativity with social and diplomatic skills.Less
This chapter analyses the issue of artistic temperament and creativity as well as personalities of artists in the Italian Renaissance through the Lives of the Artists, by Giorgio Vasari (1511–74), a prolific painter and architect. He assumed firstly that these painters, sculptors, and architects conformed to the modern view of artistic temperament, secondly that they had characteristics which were socially acceptable within the constraints of the era, and finally, that the personalities of the artists have no commonalities and would be distributed randomly across socially desirable and less acceptable idiosyncratic characteristics. It is interesting that in the analysis presented in this chapter, the more successful artists of the Italian Renaissance also appear to have coupled creativity with social and diplomatic skills.
Charles A. Carpenter
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813034058
- eISBN:
- 9780813038254
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813034058.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This book offers a new perspective on one of the most puzzling questions faced by Shaw scholars—how to reconcile the artist's individualist leanings with his socialist Fabian ideals. The book does ...
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This book offers a new perspective on one of the most puzzling questions faced by Shaw scholars—how to reconcile the artist's individualist leanings with his socialist Fabian ideals. The book does this by viewing Shaw as a maverick whose approach was impossible to duplicate and grew out of his unique artistic temperament, his outlook, and his vocation. Shaw's activities in promoting the Fabians' goals of advancing social democracy were highly distinctive. He effectively used calculated irritation as an attention-getting tactic; he relied on devices that he had formulated as a creative rhetorician, rather than on the academic principles that were second nature to most of his fellow Fabians; and he devised and championed the use of indirect means to “persuade the world to take our ideas into account in reforming itself.”Less
This book offers a new perspective on one of the most puzzling questions faced by Shaw scholars—how to reconcile the artist's individualist leanings with his socialist Fabian ideals. The book does this by viewing Shaw as a maverick whose approach was impossible to duplicate and grew out of his unique artistic temperament, his outlook, and his vocation. Shaw's activities in promoting the Fabians' goals of advancing social democracy were highly distinctive. He effectively used calculated irritation as an attention-getting tactic; he relied on devices that he had formulated as a creative rhetorician, rather than on the academic principles that were second nature to most of his fellow Fabians; and he devised and championed the use of indirect means to “persuade the world to take our ideas into account in reforming itself.”
Guy Cuthbertson
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780300153002
- eISBN:
- 9780300198553
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300153002.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
At 21 years old, Wilfred Owen was convinced that he had an artistic temperament and the need for self- expression. Worried that too much teaching was going to kill his poetry, he wanted to take some ...
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At 21 years old, Wilfred Owen was convinced that he had an artistic temperament and the need for self- expression. Worried that too much teaching was going to kill his poetry, he wanted to take some time off to escape and concentrate on his poetry. At that time, Owen’s literary interest focused more on dead writers and their works. At his request, Wilfred received Shelley’s Complete Poetical Works and noted that he and Shelley had similar temperaments.Less
At 21 years old, Wilfred Owen was convinced that he had an artistic temperament and the need for self- expression. Worried that too much teaching was going to kill his poetry, he wanted to take some time off to escape and concentrate on his poetry. At that time, Owen’s literary interest focused more on dead writers and their works. At his request, Wilfred received Shelley’s Complete Poetical Works and noted that he and Shelley had similar temperaments.
Smitha Nizar
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199466658
- eISBN:
- 9780199087174
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199466658.003.0004
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration
The wider implications of prenatal tests and disability-selective abortion in an already prejudiced society against persons with disabilities have been analysed in this chapter. Scientific ...
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The wider implications of prenatal tests and disability-selective abortion in an already prejudiced society against persons with disabilities have been analysed in this chapter. Scientific information facilitates both sex and disability selection, yet selective abortions on grounds of disability alone is permitted. Here law feeds the prejudice served by science. When scientific expertise facilitates disability based abortions, it demonstrates how much it is prejudiced against persons with disabilities. However, when science aims at achieving perfect minds and bodies for human beings, it undermines the significance of having diverse minds and bodies for human kind, and thereby, shuts the door of science to explore diverse lives. In creating model of flawless human beings, we miss the excellence of disability.Less
The wider implications of prenatal tests and disability-selective abortion in an already prejudiced society against persons with disabilities have been analysed in this chapter. Scientific information facilitates both sex and disability selection, yet selective abortions on grounds of disability alone is permitted. Here law feeds the prejudice served by science. When scientific expertise facilitates disability based abortions, it demonstrates how much it is prejudiced against persons with disabilities. However, when science aims at achieving perfect minds and bodies for human beings, it undermines the significance of having diverse minds and bodies for human kind, and thereby, shuts the door of science to explore diverse lives. In creating model of flawless human beings, we miss the excellence of disability.
