Collective Creativity: Art and Society in the South Pacific
Collective Creativity offers an analysis of the explosion of artistic creativity currently taking place on the South Pacific island of Rarotonga. By exploring the construction of this art-world through the ways in which creativity and innovation are linked to social structures and social networks, this book investigates the social aspects of making fine art in order to present a ’collective’ theory of creativity. With a close examination of tourism, galleries and, of course, the artists themselves, Katherine Giuffre presents a detailed picture of a complex and multi-faceted community through the words of the art-world participants themselves. Theoretically sophisticated, yet grounded with rich empirical data, this book will appeal not only to anthropologists with an interest in the South Pacific, but also to scholars concerned with questions of ethnicity, creativity, globalization and network analysis.
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Collective Creativity: Art and Society in the South Pacific
Collective Creativity offers an analysis of the explosion of artistic creativity currently taking place on the South Pacific island of Rarotonga. By exploring the construction of this art-world through the ways in which creativity and innovation are linked to social structures and social networks, this book investigates the social aspects of making fine art in order to present a ’collective’ theory of creativity. With a close examination of tourism, galleries and, of course, the artists themselves, Katherine Giuffre presents a detailed picture of a complex and multi-faceted community through the words of the art-world participants themselves. Theoretically sophisticated, yet grounded with rich empirical data, this book will appeal not only to anthropologists with an interest in the South Pacific, but also to scholars concerned with questions of ethnicity, creativity, globalization and network analysis.
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Collective Creativity: Art and Society in the South Pacific

Collective Creativity: Art and Society in the South Pacific

by Katherine Giuffre
Collective Creativity: Art and Society in the South Pacific
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Collective Creativity: Art and Society in the South Pacific

Collective Creativity: Art and Society in the South Pacific

by Katherine Giuffre

Overview

Collective Creativity offers an analysis of the explosion of artistic creativity currently taking place on the South Pacific island of Rarotonga. By exploring the construction of this art-world through the ways in which creativity and innovation are linked to social structures and social networks, this book investigates the social aspects of making fine art in order to present a ’collective’ theory of creativity. With a close examination of tourism, galleries and, of course, the artists themselves, Katherine Giuffre presents a detailed picture of a complex and multi-faceted community through the words of the art-world participants themselves. Theoretically sophisticated, yet grounded with rich empirical data, this book will appeal not only to anthropologists with an interest in the South Pacific, but also to scholars concerned with questions of ethnicity, creativity, globalization and network analysis.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780815346517
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/18/2017
Series: Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
Pages: 182
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Katherine Giuffre is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Colorado College, USA

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Networks and Creativity; Chapter 2 Te Enua Ou Tumu Te Varovaro: “The Misty Land Whence Comes the Thunder”; Chapter 3 Developing an Art Market at Home and Abroad; Chapter 4 The Artists I: Local, Foreign, and Foreign Locals; Chapter 5 The Artists II: Social Networks and Making Art1; Chapter 6 Re-evaluating Creativity in a Changing World;
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