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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Here are entered works on the creative ability exhibited by literary authors, artists, etc., in the creation of their works. Works about the depiction of creativity as a theme in literature are entered under Creativity in literature.

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• Art
• Imagination
• Inspiration
• Literature

• Creative ability
• Originality

• Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- Congresses
• Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- Economic aspects
• Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- Fiction
• Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- Research
• Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- Social aspects
• Creative writing
• Freedom and art

• Creative ability in art
• Creative ability in literature

• Critique of Creativity: Precarity, Subjectivity and Resistance in the "Creative Industries" (London: MayFlyBooks, 2011), ed. by Gerald Raunig, Gene Ray, and Ulf Wuggenig (PDF and HTML with commentary at MayFlyBooks)
• Live Coding: A User's Manual (Cambrige, MA and London: MIT Press, c2022), by Alan F. Blackwell, Emma Cocker, Geoff Cox, Alex McLean, and Thor Magnusson (multiple formats with commentary at toplap.org)
• Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age (2008), ed. by Caroline Eisner and Martha Vicinus (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature: Between Romanticism and Formalism (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2014), by Joanna Page (PDF at University of Calgary)
• Creative Effort: An Essay in Affirmation (Sydney: Art in Australia, 1920), by Norman Lindsay (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Art of Anthropology/The Anthropology of Art (c2013), ed. by Brandon D. Lundy (PDF with commentary at Tennessee)

• Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age (c2012), by Philippe Aigrain, contrib. by Suzanne Aigrain (PDF with commentary at sharing-thebook.com)

• Freedom of Expression ®: Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity (2005), by Kembrew McLeod (PDF with commentary at kembrew.com)

• Youth and the Bright Medusa, by Willa Cather (HTML at Virginia)

• Owning and Using Scholarship: An IP Handbook for Teachers and Researchers (Chicago: Association of College and Resarch Libraries, 2014), by Kevin L. Smith (PDF at ala.org)

• Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age (c2012), by Philippe Aigrain, contrib. by Suzanne Aigrain (PDF with commentary at sharing-thebook.com)

• Agitate! (2019-) (full serial archives)

• How to Write Stories That Sell (Boston: The Writer, c1961), by Edward S. Fox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Placing the Academy: Essays on Landscape, Work, and Identity (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2007), ed. by Jennifer Sinor and Rona Kaufman (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Primer of the Novel (New York: Random House, c1950), by Vincent McHugh (page images at HathiTrust)

• The End of Books, or Books Without End? Reading Interactive Narratives (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by J. Yellowlees Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)

• Composition Studies as a Creative Art: Teaching, Writing, Scholarship, Administration (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1998), by Lynn Z. Bloom (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Keywords in Creative Writing (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2006), by Wendy Bishop and David Starkey (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Keywords in Creative Writing (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2006), by Wendy Bishop and David Starkey (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• (Re)Writing Craft: Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2005), by Tim Mayers (page images at Pitt)

• On the Art of Writing: Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge, 1913-1914, by Arthur Quiller-Couch (HTML at Bartleby)

• What We Are Becoming: Developments in Undergraduate Writing Majors (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2010), ed. by Greg Giberson and Thomas A. Moriarty (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Walled Culture: How Big Content Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Keep Creators Poor (Antwerp: BTF Press, 2022), by Glyn Moody (multiple formats with commentary at walledculture.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Modeling Creativity: Case Studies in Python (2013), by Tom De Smedt (PDF in Belgium)
• Organic Creativity and the Physics Within (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2013), by Mea M. M. Lowcre, ed. by Johan Hoorn (Javascript-dependent PDF at benjamins.com)
• Creative Multilingualism: A Manifesto (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Katrin M. Kohl, Rajinder Kumar Dudrah, Andrew Gosler, Suzanne Graham, Martin Maiden, Wen-chin Ouyang, and Matthew Reynolds (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Critique of Creativity: Precarity, Subjectivity and Resistance in the "Creative Industries" (London: MayFlyBooks, 2011), ed. by Gerald Raunig, Gene Ray, and Ulf Wuggenig (PDF and HTML with commentary at MayFlyBooks)
• A Passion for Ideas: How Innovators Create the New and Shape Our World (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2002), ed. by Heinrich von Pierer and Bolko von Oetinger (PDF at Purdue)
• Creative Transformation: A Practical Guide for Maximizing Creativity (c1991), by John David Garcia (HTML at see.org)
• Man's Ultimate Commitment (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1958), by Henry Nelson Wieman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homosexuality: The Psychology of the Creative Process (originally published 1971), by Paul Rosenfels (HTML with commentary at rosenfels.org)

• Creativity/Anthropology (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1993), ed. by Smadar Lavie, Kirin Narayan, and Renato Rosaldo (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Youth and the Bright Medusa, by Willa Cather (HTML at Virginia)

• Hunger, by Knut Hamsun, trans. by George Egerton, contrib. by Edwin Björkman (Gutenberg text)
• Hunger (London: L. Smithers and Co., 1899), by Knut Hamsun, trans. by George Egerton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Sult (in Norwegian), by Knut Hamsun (Gutenberg text)

• Creative Chaos (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2016), ed. by Drew Davidson (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• An Awesome Book! (New York: HarperCollins, c2012), by Dallas Clayton (Javascript-dependent multimedia at veryawesomeworld.com)

• The Man of Genius (London: A. C. Black, 1923), by Hermann Türck, trans. by George J. Tamson, Elizabeth C. Deibel, George Payn, F. S. Delmer, and John Alex Falconer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry Into Its Laws and Consequences (London and New York: Macmillan, 1892), by Francis Galton (PDF and HTML with commentary at galton.org)
• Originality: A Popular Study of the Creative Mind (sixth thousand; London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd.; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1920), by T. Sharper Knowlson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture (London: Macmillan, 1874), by Francis Galton (PDF and page images at galton.org)

• Narrating Demons, Transformative Texts: Rereading Genius in Mid-Century Modern Fictional Memoir (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Daniel T. O'Hara (PDF at Ohio STate)

• Conjectures on Original Composition, by Edward Young (HTML at Toronto)

• Claude Monet: The Water-Lilies; and Other Writings on Art (Urbana, IL: Windsor and Downs Press; 2017), by Georges Clemenceau, trans. by Bruce Michelson (illustrated HTML and Epub with commentary at Illinois)
• A. Hyatt Mayor: Selected Writings and a Bibliography (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983), by A. Hyatt Mayor (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• The Visual Experience; An Introduction To Art (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, ca. 1961), by Bates Lowry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art Spirit (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1923), by Robert Henri, ed. by Margery Ryerson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Barbaren und Klassiker: Ein Buch von der Bildnerei Exotischer Völker (in German; title page appears to be missing; Munich: R. Piper and Co., 1922), by Wilhelm Hausenstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kunst ("Art" translated into German; Dresden: Sibyllenverlag, 1922), by Clive Bell, ed. by Paul Westheim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Since Cézanne (ca. 1922), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
• Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1921), by Marsden Hartley (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Art (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., ca. 1914), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Art and Socialism, by William Morris (HTML at marxists.org)
• Art Culture: A Hand-Book of Art Technicalities and Criticisms, Selected From The Works of John Ruskin, and Arranged and Supplemented by Rev. W.H. Platt, for the Use of Schools and Colleges; Together With a New Glossary of Art Terms, And an Alphabetical and Chronological List of Artists (New York: J. Wiley and Son, 1873), by John Ruskin, ed. by W. H. Platt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Art Culture: A Hand-Book of Art Technicalities and Criticisms, Selected From The Works of John Ruskin, and Arranged and Supplemented by Rev. W.H. Platt, for the Use of Schools and Colleges; Together With a New Glossary of Art Terms, And an Alphabetical and Chronological List of Artists (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, 1877), by John Ruskin, ed. by W. H. Platt (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Course of Lectures Delivered at the New York School of Applied Design for Women (New York: Irving Press, 1912), ed. by Mrs. Dunlap Hopkins, contrib. by Frank Edwin Elwell, Henry Reuterdahl, Louis R. Metcalfe, H. K. Kevorkian, and Albert Sterner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Creative Will: Studies in the Philosophy and the Syntax of Aesthetics (New York and London: J. Lane, 1916), by Willard Huntington Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hopes and Fears for Art, by William Morris (Gutenberg text)
• L'Art et le Geste (in French; Paris: F. Alcan, 1910), by Jean d' Udine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on Art, and Poems, by Washington Allston (page images at MOA)
• Prose Miscellany (Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1881), by Horace P. Biddle (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Seven Discourses on Art, by Joshua Reynolds (Gutenberg text)
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Two Paths, by John Ruskin (Gutenberg text)
• An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film (Yonkers, NY: Alicat Book Shop Press, 1946), by Maya Deren (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• System and Dialectics of Art (New York: Delphic studios, 1937), by John Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Friedrich von Schlegel: Comprising Letters on Christian Art; An Essay on Gothic Architecture; Remarks on the Romance-Poetry of the Middle Ages and on Shakspere; On the Limits of the Beautiful; On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians (London: H. G. Bohn, 1860), by Friedrich von Schlegel, trans. by E. J. Millington
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google
• Elements of Art Criticism, by G. W. Samson (page images at MOA)
• The Sanity of Art: An Exposure of the Current Nonsense about Artists being Degenerate (London: The New Age Press, 1908), by Bernard Shaw (PDF at modjourn.org)
• Pot-Boilers (London: Chatto and Windus, 1918), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
• Signs of Change, by William Morris (Gutenberg text)
• The Decay of Lying, by Oscar Wilde (HTML in Ireland)
• Questioni Pratiche di Belle Arti: Restauri, Concorsi, Legislazione, Professione, Insegnamento (in Italian; Milano: U. Hoepli, 1893), by Camillo Boito (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.