Thursday 30th October 2014 - Creativity and Authorship

Hartley, J. (2005), Creative Industries, Oxford: Blackwell, pp.5-6 - section subtitled 'What are the creative industries?'

Creativity can be historical and expressive. And, it has meant different things during different decades or centuries as opinions have changed. I believe that people should be aware of their creativity and condone it more; for example, people who enter talent shows want to pursue their goal and use their talent. Plus, I discovered that people who are creative are more likely to get a job... they're more employable because not as many have that particular 'talent' - people want those skills that others might not have. So, creativity is recognised as the driver of economic growth.

I also found out that more people than I thought can be creative. People such as scientists, marketers, sports people, etc... I guess they are creative in different ways because you wouldn't normally associate a sports person with creativity. They're probably creative in the way that they're strategic in their thinking. But, when you normally think of creativity, you tend to come up with drawing, painting, crafts, photography, that kind of thing.

Eighteenth century works were considered a separate activity and it was different from everyday life. Not as many works back then would have been understood as being 'creative'. Whilst the Romanticism period focused on originality and the artist being a 'genius'. They were thought to have more imagination than others might have.

However, moving on from Romanticism period, the creative industries combines the creative arts with an interest in the commerce and the marketplace. It also has a political interest in creativity as enterprise. It can be referred to as the cultural industries and it is concerned by a variety of economic activities; a group of German's from the Frankfurt School are part of this period (during 30s and 40s) and it was thought to be quite dangerous as they encouraged others to step out of place and basically be an individual. They critiqued the inequalities of life.