REC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Creative Class, Social Change, Ravelry
1 Dec 2012
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Leisure and the arts: recreation and leisure studies (100) The definition and meaning of terms like art" and creativity" can be debated: ex. It"s personal, evocative, emotional, and expressive: about individual expression, art is very subjective (hard to say if you"ve failed or done well) For the sake of this discussion, the arts" include all activities that can be considered creative and/or expressive: what it means to make it, what it means to the artist, what it means to the audience. Artistic expression is an universal human experience: Evidence of human art dating back over 35,000 years ago. Artistic expression is a uniquely human experience shared by every culture. What is it about the arts that make them so universal: you don"t need to know a specific language to understand, interpret, or appreciate art, used to express emotion, art for money. Many theories continue to debate the roots of the human artistic experience based upon concepts such as:
