Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged

"Powerful and evocative, this work shows how creative genius is generated and why it sometimes survives assaults on its worth." —Frederick F. Wherry, Princeton University, author of The Culture of Markets

What is creativity? While our traditional view of creative work might lead us to think of artists as solitary visionaries, the creative process is profoundly influenced by social interactions even when artists work alone. Sociologist Hannah Wohl draws on more than one hundred interviews and...