Three coined conditions of arting: artistic causality, idiosyncratic meaning, and intentional symbolization¶

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Description¶

The report coins three terms for the basic conditions of making art, present from early childhood: artistic causality (the artist as proactive origin), idiosyncratic meaning (private, affective, image-bound meaning), and intentional symbolization (working idiosyncratic meaning into materials). The author writes that "wherever art is made I see evidence of artistic causality, idiosyncratic. meaning, and intentional symbolization." These conditions frame what the methodology must access.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• The artist must be treated as an origin rather than a pawn, with medium and symbols used ad hoc to synthesize situational aspects

Constraints¶

• The author cautions that this threesome should not be unduly hypostatized

Target Learners¶

• artists and art students

Target Learning Objectives¶

• understanding the conditions under which art making occurs

Claims¶

Related Theories¶

• Contextualism as the world view and general method for studying arting

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Beittel, Kenneth R. (1972). A Case Methodology for the Study of the Drawing Process and the Drawing Series. Final Report. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED075274