Contagious Imagination
Contagious Imagination

Author: Jane Tolmie

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2022-07-27

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1496839811

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Contributions by Frederick Luis Aldama, Melissa Burgess, Susan Kirtley, Rachel Luria, Ursula Murray Husted, Mark O’Connor, Allan Pero, Davida Pines, Tara Prescott-Johnson, Jane Tolmie, Rachel Trousdale, Elaine Claire Villacorta, and Glenn Willmott Lynda Barry (b. 1956) is best known for her distinctive style and unique voice, first popularized in her underground weekly comic Ernie Pook’s Comeek. Since then, she has published prolifically, including numerous comics, illustrated novels, and nonfiction books exploring the creative process. Barry’s work is genre- and form-bending, often using collage to create what she calls “word with drawing” vignettes. Her art, imaginative and self-reflective, allows her to discuss gender, race, relationships, memory, and her personal, everyday lived experience. It is through this experience that Barry examines the creative process and offers to readers ways to record and examine their own lives. The essays in Contagious Imagination: The Work and Art of Lynda Barry, edited by Jane Tolmie, study the pedagogy of Barry’s work and its application academically and practically. Examining Barry’s career and work from the point of view of research-creation, Contagious Imagination applies Barry’s unique mixture of teaching, art, learning, and creativity to the very form of the volume, exploring Barry’s imaginative praxis and offering readers their own. With a foreword by Frederick Luis Aldama and an afterword by Glenn Willmott, this volume explores the impact of Barry’s work in and out of the classroom. Divided into four sections—Teaching and Learning, which focuses on critical pedagogy; Comics and Autobiography, which targets various practices of rememorying; Cruddy, a self-explanatory category that offers two extraordinary critical interventions into Barry criticism around a challenging text; and Research-Creation, which offers two creative, synthetic artistic pieces that embody and enact Barry’s own mixed academic and creative investments—this book offers numerous inroads into Barry’s idiosyncratic imagination and what it can teach us about ourselves.

Contagious
Contagious

Author: Priscilla Wald

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2008-01-09

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780822341536

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DIVShows how narratives of contagion structure communities of belonging and how the lessons of these narratives are incorporated into sociological theories of cultural transmission and community formation./div

Monstrous Imagination
Monstrous Imagination

Author: Marie-Hélène Huet

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9780674586512

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What woeful maternal fancy produced such a monster? This was once the question asked when a deformed infant was born. From classical antiquity through to the Enlightenment, the monstrous child bore witness to the fearsome power of the mother's imagination. What such a notion meant and how it reappeared, transformed, in the Romantic period are the questions explored in this book, a study of theories linking imagination, art and monstrous progeny.

Creativity Is Contagious
Creativity Is Contagious

Author: Craig Michaels

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-01-30

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13:

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Unlock the secret to creativity and bring your imagination to life! Do you dream of being creative, but you never seem to have the time or motivation? Do you have tons of creative and innovative ideas stored away, but you have no idea how to make them a reality? Are you searching for a profound and inspiring guide to help you transform your view of creativity and embark on your creative dreams? Then this book is for you! Containing 11 powerful chapters designed to help you embrace your creativity and strive for your dreams, this practical book offers simple, straightforward lessons and advice for bringing your imagination to life. Whether you struggle with finding the passion and motivation to create, or if you're always stuck waiting for that perfect moment, Creativity Is Contagious Pass It On offers you a brilliant plan for finding your flow and launching yourself into the creative process. Creativity doesn't need to be an elusive state of mind - with this illuminating advice, you'll learn how to become a creator no matter what struggles you're facing. Built on a solid foundation of years of observation and research into the nature of creativity, this book reveals how you can easily become more creative, innovative, and proactive. Here's just a little of what you'll discover inside: The Top Reasons Why You Should Embrace Your Creativity Step-By-Step Advice For Cultivating The Right Creative Mindset and Reality Exploring The Surprising Relationship Between Creativity and Knowledge Breaking Down The Law of Attraction and How It Impacts Creativity How To Become Proactive and Turn Your Ideas Into Reality Common Creativity Myths and Misconceptions - Debunked And So Much More... No matter your age, background, or what kind of creativity interests you, these tried-and-tested strategies are a sure-fire way of helping you find your inner fire, breathe life into your ideas, and arm yourself with the tools and knowledge you need to build a new mindset towards creativity. Are you ready to embrace your inner creativity? Then scroll up and grab your copy now!

Viral Performance
Viral Performance

Author: Miriam Felton-Dansky

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2018-05-15

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0810137178

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Digital culture has occasioned a seismic shift in the discourse around contagion, transmission, and viral circulation. Yet theater, in the cultural imagination, has always been contagious. Viral Performance proposes the concept of the viral as an essential means of understanding socially engaged and transmedial performance practices since the mid-twentieth century. Its chapters rethink the Living Theatre’s Artaudian revolution through the lens of affect theory, bring fresh attention to General Idea’s media-savvy performances of the 1970s, explore the digital-age provocations of Franco and Eva Mattes and Critical Art Ensemble, and survey the dramaturgies and political stakes of global theatrical networks. Viral performance practices testify to the age-old—and ever renewed—instinct that when people gather, something spreads. Performance, an art form requiring and relying on live contact, renders such spreading visible, raises its stakes, and encodes it in theatrical form. The artists explored here rarely disseminate their ideas or gestures as directly as a viral marketer or a political movement would; rather, they undermine simplified forms of contagion while holding dialogue with the philosophical and popular discourses, old and new, that have surrounded viral culture. Viral Performance argues that the concept of the viral is historically deeper than immediate associations with the contemporary digital landscape might suggest, and far more intimately linked to live performance