Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- About the authors -- List of tables and figures -- Recognised by whom? Insights on research considerations (Tatiana Chemi and Julie Borup Jensen) -- Part One: Creativity and Art by Tatiana Chemi -- Chapter 1: Artistic creativity: past, present and future -- Etymology and definition(s) -- History of a concept -- The arts and creativity -- Creativity studies today -- Chapter 2: Artists defining creativity -- Meeting definitional challenges -- Art: word and value -- What creativity is for artists -- Creativity as compulsion to make art -- Creativity as artistic identity -- The ineffable business -- Embodied meaning -- Propositional and presentational -- Art as language in a new key -- Art as creative ex-pression -- Chapter 3: Artistic process and composition -- Before the storm: preparing for creation over a lifetime -- The lifelong creative project -- Inspiration -- Preparing for the creation of artworks -- Intentional exposure to experiences -- Stealing: dialogue or fight with models -- Sweeping up the creative space -- Getting to work: engaging the idea-reservoir -- Virtuosity -- In dialogue with the medium -- Rules -- The art of making art -- Chapter 4: Artistic emotions and ways of thinking -- When the work is done -- Emotions in the making -- Positive emotions -- Artists in flow -- Negative emotions -- Bridging positive and negative -- Motivation, resilience and persistence -- Art-making as discovery and research -- Part Two: Learning and Change by Julie Borup Jensen -- Chapter 5: Creativity and elements of learning and change -- Creativity, learning and the arts -- Why associate the concepts of learning and creativity? -- Experience, action and learning within the arts -- Action, community and creativity -- Cognition, arts and learning -- Socio-cultural dimensions in learning.

Tools and meaning-making in the arts -- Determinism and spontaneity -- Culturalism and creativity -- Domains and the creative process -- Aesthetic learning and senses in learning processes -- Learning and creativity as intertwined and interwoven. What are the perspectives? -- Chapter 6: Creativity and ways of building knowledge and skills -- Learning purposes, goals and strategies in artistic work -- Adequate expression: technical skills, craftsmanship and the body -- Without technique, creative ideas die -- Practicing as a learning strategy -- Continual learning: how to creatively renew artistic expression -- Challenging oneself as a learning strategy -- Changing perspectives of meaning as a learning strategy -- Impossibilities and obstruction -- Challenge as a strategy for continual learning and creativity -- Feeling lost: disorientation, crises and frustration in learning -- Open engagement with the world -- Curiosity killed the cat - but not learning -- The reflective practitioner - a curious practitioner -- Practice, challenge, curiosity and improvisation -- Chapter 7: Creativity, learning and apprenticeship -- Apprenticeship and the situated understanding of learning -- Shared work, distributed learning -- Non-verbal learning opportunities -- Meaning-making and art -- Mutual learning and own uniqueness -- Formal education, schools, conformity and uniqueness -- Teachers, educators, other masters and opportunities for learning -- What can the educational field learn from the artists' narratives? -- Chapter 8: Perspectives for learning in educational settings -- What is at stake in formal learning settings? -- Daring to be deliberately stupid -- What is serendipity? -- Enticing learners -- Restrospective appreciation -- Prepared mind: the unique and special meets the conformist and common -- Serendipity in the classroom.

Evaluation - how to evaluate unexpected knowledge? -- Part Three: Creativity in Relationships by Lone Hersted -- Chapter 9: Creativity in a Relational Perspective -- The Relational Perspective -- In Dialogue with Traditions -- Internalised Others and Inner Social Audiences -- Chapter 10: Collaboration in Artistic Teamwork -- The Role of Confidence -- Improvisation and Relational Responsiveness -- Between Structure and Spontaneity: Playfulness and Rules for Play -- Communication and Coordinated Action -- Challenges to Collaborative Creativity -- Chapter 11: Organising Creative Work -- Pathfinding and Emergence -- Developing New Material and Moving in Process -- Organising, Community Building and Networking -- Inspiration from Travelling and Cultural Exchange -- Chapter 12: For Leaders Concerned with Creativity -- The Challenge of Creativity in Today's Organisations -- Leading and Motivating within the Arts -- Metaphors for Leading Creative Work -- Creating a Frame for the Creative Process -- Nurturing a Collaborative Climate for Creativity -- Leading for Creativity: A Relational Perspective -- Epilogue (Tatiana Chemi and Julie Borup Jensen) -- Meeting the artists (Tatiana Chemi) -- The study in numbers -- Artists' biographies -- References.