The Gender of the Artist: Some Positions in the Debate on Creativity

Davees, C.J.

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“…Gender‐based double standards also influence how female artists are perceived by others and, in turn, how they view themselves. Women who are reclusive and ignore others' needs to focus on artistic creation are often considered self‐centered and unstable, while men who behave in a commensurate manner are regarded as geniuses, devoted to their calling (Davees, 1999). Women are also routinely condemned for thinking too highly of themselves and behaving in ways that are deemed “attention seeking” (Ridgeway, 2011), which makes it more difficult for them to engage in the active self‐promotion that is crucial in creative professions.…”

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Gender and Artistic Creativity: The Perspectives and Experiences of Eminent Female Visual Artists

Ginis

Stewart

Kronborg

2023

Journal of Creative Behavior

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The historically male‐dominated discourse encompassing artistic creativity has often failed to acknowledge the voices and contributions of women. Female artists continue to face barriers in terms of accessing opportunities, attaining positions of prominence, and earning potential, in comparison with their male counterparts. This inequality is deleterious to female artists and society. Therefore, it is important to understand the relationship between artistic creativity and gender, with a particular emphasis on elite female artistic exemplars. The present qualitative study utilized in‐depth semi‐structured interviews, in accordance with the methodology of Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis, to explore the role of gender in relation to artistic creativity among 10 eminent Australian female visual artists. Findings indicated that participants were affected detrimentally by gender‐based inequality on personal, professional, and sociocultural levels. Their experiences as women, however, also inspired and informed their artistic creativity aesthetically and conceptually. The findings challenge patriarchal conceptualizations of the “male artistic genius” by presenting a female‐focused counternarrative. Implications for educating, supporting, and empowering current and emerging female artists to excel are discussed.

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Gender and Artistic Creativity: The Perspectives and Experiences of Eminent Female Visual Artists

Ginis

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Kronborg

2023

Journal of Creative Behavior

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This article explores how young adult artist novels respond to the current proliferation of digital media technologies. Examining two recent publications-Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (2013) and Eliza and her Monsters by Francesca Zappia (2017), this paper analyses how these novels interrogate the shifting author function against the backdrop of digitalisation, and how that shift in turn affects the representation of young people's artistic maturation. Informed by a keen awareness of the profound ways in which technological advancements reshape traditional experiences and expectations of authorship and artistic growth, these contemporary novels offer a unique prism through which to complicate the evolving genre of the Künstlerroman in adolescent literature.

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The Gender of the Artist: Some Positions in the Debate on Creativity

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Gender and Artistic Creativity: The Perspectives and Experiences of Eminent Female Visual Artists

Gender and Artistic Creativity: The Perspectives and Experiences of Eminent Female Visual Artists

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