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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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• Artistic collaboration
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• Design
• Planning

• Creative ability in literature
• Creative ability in art

• 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 Flash with commentary at MayFlyBooks)
• 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)

• Housing: Process and Physical Form, ed. by Linda Safran (PDF at archnet.org)

• The Changing Rural Habitat (1982), ed. by Brian Brace Taylor
  • Volume I (Case Studies): PDF at archnet.org
  • Volume II (Background Papers): PDF at archnet.org

• Reading the Contemporary African City (1983), ed. by Brian Brace Taylor (PDF at archnet.org)

• The Humane Metropolis: People and Nature in the 21st-Century City (c2006), ed. by Rutherford H. Platt (PDF files at umass.edu)

• The Epidemiological Transition: Policy and Planning Implications for Developing Countries, ed. by James N. Gribble and Samuel H. Preston (page images at NAP)

• Proceedings of the Jakarta Workshop on Coastal Resources Management, by Jakarta Workshop on Coastal Resources Management, ed. by Eric C. F. Bird and Aprilani Soegiarto (HTML at UNU Press)

• Improving Interactions between Coastal Science and Policy: Proceedings of the Gulf of Maine Symposium, by National Research Council Ocean Studies Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Improving Interactions between Coastal Science and Policy: Proceedings of the Gulf of Maine Symposium, by National Research Council Ocean Studies Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Environmental Science in the Coastal Zone: Issues for Further Research, by National Research Council Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources (page images at NAP)

• Finance for Food: Towards New Agricultural and Rural Finance (Heidelberg et al.: Springer Open, c2014), ed. by Doris Köhn (PDF files at springer.com)

• Conservation and Development in Northern Thailand, ed. by Jack D. Ives, Sanga Sbhasri, and Pisit Voraurai (HTML at UNU Press)

• The Expanding Metropolis: Coping with the Urban Growth of Cairo (1985), ed. by Ahmet Evin (PDF at archnet.org)

• Food Aid Projections for the Decade of the 1990s (1989), by National Research Council Board on Science and Technology for International Development (page images at NAP)

• Food Aid Projections for the Decade of the 1990s (1989), by National Research Council Board on Science and Technology for International Development (page images at NAP)

• Proceedings of the Khartoum Workshop on Arid Lands Management, by Khartoum Workshop on Arid Lands Management, ed. by J. A. Mabbutt (HTML at UNU Press)

• Proceedings of the Khartoum Workshop on Arid Lands Management, by Khartoum Workshop on Arid Lands Management, ed. by J. A. Mabbutt (HTML at UNU Press)

• 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)

• Modern Design in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1890-1990 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harry N. Abrams, 1990), by R. Craig Miller, illust. by Mark Darley (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Bare Witness (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1996), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Christian Dior (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1996), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda, illust. by Karin L. Willis (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Madame Grès (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda, illust. by Marcia Lippman (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Dot-Font: Talking About Design (text-only version; originally published 2006), by John D. Berry (multiple formats with commentary at dot-font.com)

• Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers (free web version, c2002), by James Hague (HTML with commentary at dadgum.com)

• John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" and European Gardening, ed. by Therese O'Malley and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (PDF with commentary at doaks.org)

• John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" and European Gardening, ed. by Therese O'Malley and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (PDF with commentary at doaks.org)

• Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art, 1550-1850, ed. by Michel Conan (PDF with commentary at doaks.org)

• Tempest: Geometries of Play (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Judd Ethan Ruggill and Ken S. McAllister (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
• Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers (free web version, c2002), by James Hague (HTML with commentary at dadgum.com)

• 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)

• Callous Objects: Designs Against the Homeless (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017), by Robert Rosenberger (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• (First Person)²: A Study of Co-Authoring in the Academy (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), by Kami Day and Michele Eodice (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), by Joseph Michael Reagle, contrib. by Lawrence Lessig (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• 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)

• (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)

• The Shape of Design (c2012), by Frank Chimero (multiple formats with commentary at shapeofdesignbook.com)
• The Bases of Design (second edition; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1902), by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Manual of Design, Complied from the Writings and Addresses of Richard Redgrave (London: Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall, 1876), by Richard Redgrave, ed. by G. R. Redgrave (multiple formats at archive.org)

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