Creative Process: In General
See the following books and book chapters for more information about the creative process and convergent/divergent creativity.
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Critical Creative Processes
by Call Number: LB1062 .C745 2003A collection of research essays on creativity. See Chapter 4, "Creativity, Personality and the Convergent-Divergent Continuum" by H. J. Eysenck (page 95). -
The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity
by Call Number: BF408 .C36 2010This handbook both provides an introduction to the field of creativity and serves as a reference source and guide to more current research. See Chapter 7, "How does a visual artist create an artwork?" by Paul J. Locher (page 131). -
Creativity from Constraints: The Psychology of Breakthrough
by Call Number: onlineStokes delves into the minds of famous creative artists and discovers the surprising source leading to their creative breakthroughs. Using examples such as Picasso, Monet and Frank Lloyd Wright, she explores how self-imposed, well-considered constraints can inspire new ideas. -
The Arts and Human Development
by Call Number: NX165 .G37A classic text on the development of creativity. Illustrated throughout with children’s art, this book is a systematic examination of the relation between youthful participation in the arts and the ultimate craftsmanship attained by gifted artists. See "The Artistic Process," page 25. -
Hot-Wiring Your Creative Process
by Call Number: onlineCloninger gives the basics of the creative process, and provides artists and designers with reasons to believe in their creative powers and get past reliance on the epiphany moment. Includes interviews with industry leaders. -
Creative Person and Creative Process
by Call Number: BF408 .B355
In the First Person: Books
These books, videos and websites contain interviews with and writings by artists.
Hirshhorn Museum: Artists in Depth
http://www.hirshhorn.si.edu/bio/artists-in-depth/
This website from the Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian's museum of modern and contemporary art, brings together a variety of images, videos, web sources, and more on the work of 22 important international artists.
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Interviews with Artists, 1966-2012
by Call Number: N6490 .P386 2012Curator Michael Peppiatt has spent his professional life with many of the greatest artists of the 20th century and has amassed an incredible archive of interviews. This volume includes 45 of Peppiatt's most noteworthy and fascinating of his conversations with artists, from the world-famous to the under-recognized. -
Twentieth Century Artists on Art
by Call Number: ref NX456 .R59 1996What artists say about their work remains a mainstay of scholarship and museum research; this publication makes a heroic attempt to track as much of this material as possible in published sources. Includes citations to 27,500 published interviews with 20th-century artists. -
The Conversations: Interviews with 16 Contemporary Artists
by Call Number: N6490 .W489 2007Sixteen artists comment on their work, their philosophies, their influences, the difficulty of creating art, and the failures that are part of the creative process. The artists interviewed are Richard Berger, Jim Campbell, Squeak Carnwath, James Doolin, Viola Frey, James Hubbell, Enrique Martínez Celaya, Michael C. McMillen, Nathan Oliveira, David Parker, Judy Pfaff, Irene Pijoan, Jane Rosen, Katherine Sherwood, James Turrell, and Ursula von Rydingsvard. -
Sculpsit: Contemporary Artists on Sculpture and Beyond
by Call Number: NB198 .S32 2001Sculpsit focuses on the artist's voice via interviews, collaborations, artist's pages, lecture texts, and notes. Features artists such as Tracey Emin, Cornelia Parker, and Michael Sandle working in diverse media such as installation, video, photomicrograph, fireworks, memorials, canvasses, and needlepoint. -
Art Talk: Conversations with Working Artists (videorecording)
Call Number: curta 372.5C883ar (2nd floor)Publication Date: 2009Contemporary artists working in various media share their thoughts on the creative process and what it means to be an artist. Artists covered in program are: sculptors Mark Cesark, James Surls, and Nancy Lovendahl; ceramist Alleghany Meadows; painters Carrie Kaplan and Tania Dibbs; glass artists Jacqueline Spiro and Lee Lyon; and totem carver John Doyle -
Contemporary British Women Artists: In Their Own Words
by Call Number: N6796 .F67 2007Twenty of the most important women artists practicing internationally but based in Britain discuss their work and influences. These interviews give insights into these artists' creative processes. Fortnum speaks to: Jananne Al-Ani, Gillian Ayres, Claire Barclay, Christine Borland, Sonia Boyce, Maria Chevska, Tacita Dean, Tracey Emin, Anya Gallaccio, Lucy Gunning, Jane Harris, Runa Islam, Vanessa Jackson, Emma Kay, Tanya Kovats, Maria Lalic, Hayley Newman, Paula Rego and Jemima Stehli and Tomoko Takahashi. -
Sculptors at Work: Interviews About the Creative Process
by Call Number: NB1135 .C37 2011Twenty-two sculptors discuss where ideas come from and how they transform them into sculpture as well as their personal goals, material selection, color and scale determinations, work in progress, how they overcome blocks, and how they've matured creatively. -
Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children About Their Art
by Call Number: juv 741.6A7913 (2nd floor)Artists in children's literature share secrets about their art and detail their journey into the world of illustration, providing photographs of their early work, sketches and finished art, and self-portraits.
Journals
Each link below will take you to a list of interviews with artists in each of the featured journals. Most will be full text, but, if not, you may be able to find the journal in print on the first floor of the Jerome Library.
Interview: Interviews with Artists
Interview magazine was started by Andy Warhol! It contains lots of interviews with artists. Full text online.
Art in America: Interviews with Artists
Art in America covers contemporary art worldwide. In print at Jerome Library and full text online.
Flash Art: Interviews with Artists
Flash Art contains news of the contemporary art world. Full text online. ;
Bomb includes interviews and dialogues between artists, writers, musicians, directors, actors, photographers and musicians. Full text online.
Artforum: Interviews with Artists
Artforum covers the contemporary art world, with sections on architecture, music, and advertising. In print at Jerome Library, 1996 to present.