{"title":"The Unifying Glue","authors":"W. T. Schultz","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197611098.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197611098.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 3 zeroes in on the trait of openness exclusively, including its structural and motivational elements. The author discusses how openness, like the rest of the Big Five traits, affects every aspect of mental life, but notes that traits are abstract potentials. Their existence is inferred from what people say and do, how they behave. Of more interest in this book are the habits of mind they give rise to. These involve ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving. The author describes how, depending on how high a person is in O, certain challenges may (or may not) materialize. Three artists are profiled in the chapter: John Coltrane, John Lennon, and Francesca Woodman.","PeriodicalId":128013,"journal":{"name":"The Mind of the Artist","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129149833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trait-Based Origins of Creativity","authors":"W. T. Schultz","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197611098.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197611098.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 2 provides an overview of scientific findings on correlations between each of the Big Five dimensions and creativity. The author notes that we can’t know everything about artist personality or the intricacies of artistic process, but that does not mean we can’t know anything. The research has been done, and the job, now, is to sift through it, identify what’s known, and craft a general portrait. A generic artist personality profile is outlined. The author presents a contrast between the average scientist and the average artist. From there, the author focuses on the trait-based roots of creativity, including detailed discussion of the exact Big Five profiles of two accomplished creatives: Kuwaiti painter Shurooq Amin and American writer Walter Kirn.","PeriodicalId":128013,"journal":{"name":"The Mind of the Artist","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116855754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Traits, States, and Stories","authors":"W. T. Schultz","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197611098.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197611098.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 1 provides an overview of the Big Five trait model combined with two additional layers of personality expression: states and stories. The author explains that personality starts with traits, simple compounds that are captured in language with words like shy, belligerent, outgoing, ambitious, and friendly. By sifting and simplifying, or what is called factor analysis, all such adjectives reduce to five dimensions, the so-called Big Five. These dimensions (the dimensions are the traits) reveal the why behind creativity as well as the how, the ways in which creativity functions. The Big Five traits are neuroticism, extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and openness. Writer Truman Capote is used as an illustration of how traits, states, and stories are related to the personality of the artist.","PeriodicalId":128013,"journal":{"name":"The Mind of the Artist","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125842153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Art and Suicide","authors":"W. T. Schultz","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197611098.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197611098.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 8 looks at specific ways in which art can sometimes be crazy-making, with a detailed examination of three artist suicides. Research on artists and suicide, specifically, is sparse. We know as little about any artist’s reasons as we do about anyone else’s, but a few studies are have been done. And at least actuarially, in relation to level of overall risk, the good studies provide some helpful grounding. To get at a range of possible dynamics, none universal, in this chapter the author inspects the particular cases of Diane Arbus, Kurt Cobain, and Sylvia Plath. Specifically, the author examines how suicide sometimes comes at the end of a process of artistic redefinition. The artist tries something new, in terms of form or content, apparatus or theme, and the product, so unlike anything he or she has attempted before, seems at first outrageously right and satisfying. Sometimes that feeling lasts, sometimes it doesn’t. But either way, the new development occasions a risky and not necessarily valid reassessment of all prior artistic activity.","PeriodicalId":128013,"journal":{"name":"The Mind of the Artist","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129688783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two Prototypical Creators","authors":"W. T. Schultz","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197611098.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197611098.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"In Chapter 5, the author reinforces the idea that models are approximations that work in most cases, most of the time. They capture family resemblances within groups. The members of the group, in this instance artists, “look alike.” Models help because they allow us to predict. But they also, more commonly, allow us to understand, and when we understand, we not only make sense of another person we are interested in, we also, in addition to that, make sense of ourselves. In this chapter, the author applies his model to the lives and art of two famous artists: David Bowie and Frida Kahlo. This discussion reveals that it’s not necessary, and usually not accurate, to think of art as an escape or unintended cure. It is repetition, in thin or thick symbolic terms, of uniquely important experiences.","PeriodicalId":128013,"journal":{"name":"The Mind of the Artist","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130395392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Unhappiness Muse","authors":"W. T. Schultz","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197611098.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197611098.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 6 provides an examination of findings related to the frequency of loss in the lives of artists, and how artists are motivated to shape loss and inner pain into creative products. Loss has been noted in the lives of artists for decades. It comes in the form of death; it comes in other ways, too. The chapter explores questions about the loss–art connection. What is it about loss that mobilizes creativity? What’s the nature of the correlation? Does loss propel art? The author outlines the role of trauma in creativity, with artist examples including Jorge Luis Borges, William Styron, Jack Kerouac, Truman Capote, and Patricia Highsmith.","PeriodicalId":128013,"journal":{"name":"The Mind of the Artist","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126236645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chaos Rainbows","authors":"W. T. Schultz","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197611098.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197611098.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 4 provides an examination of the common states of mind arising out of openness, including schizotypy, reduced latent inhibition, and cognitive disinhibition. The chapter reconstructs a frame of mind artists themselves have a hard time describing. From there, questions center on the shaping, the organizing, and the ordering involved in art-making. Most of the chapter is dedicated to chaos and its roots in personality. But chaos alone isn’t enough. Creativity is making something. Chaos is a means to that end, the making. How the artist uses chaos is just as important as finding ways to stay open to it. Numerous artists are used as illustrations, including Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac, Jerry Seinfeld, Steve Jobs, and Joni Mitchell. A four-step model for how raw materials get shaped into art is also presented.","PeriodicalId":128013,"journal":{"name":"The Mind of the Artist","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125280106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Myth of the Mentally Ill Artist","authors":"W. T. Schultz","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197611098.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197611098.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 7 examines the actual study findings related to art and mental illness and concludes that this connection has not been decisively established. The chapter looks at popular studies that have attempted to prove that artists disproportionately suffer from mental illness. The author argues that these studies rise or fall based on how they are conducted, or the quality of the research, and proceeds to look closely at this quality question. The author argues something very different from the art–madness equation: that art is rooted not in disorder but in variations of personality. It’s personality that’s predictive, not emotional disturbance. The author concludes by locating the actual source of artist “torture” in the qualities of mind produced by openness.","PeriodicalId":128013,"journal":{"name":"The Mind of the Artist","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130755606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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