Hidden Order of Art A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination

Preface BOOK ONE: CONTROLLING THE WORLD Part I: Order in Chaos 1. The Child's Vision of the World 2. The Two Kinds of Attention 3. Unconscious Scanning Part II: Creative Conflict 4. The Fertile Motif and the Happy Accident 5. The Fragmentation of 'Modern Art' 6. The Inner Fabric Part III: Teaching Creativity 7. The Three Phases of Creativity 8. Enveloping Pictorial Space 9. Abstraction 10. Training Spontaneity through the Intellect BOOK TWO: STIRRING THE IMAGINATION Part IV: The Theme of the Dying God 11. The Minimum Content of Art 12. The Self-Creating God 13. The Scattered and Buried God 14. The Devoured and Burned God Part V: Theoretical Conclusions 15. Towards a Revision of Current Theory 16. Ego Dissociation Appendix: Glossary References IndexEhrenzweig, Anton is the author of 'Hidden Order of Art A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination' with ISBN 9780520038455 and ISBN 0520038452.