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Plural Imagination: Diversity in Mind and Making

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: The experience of visual mental imagery—seeing in the mind’s eye—varies widely between individuals, but perhaps because we tend to assume our own way of thinking to be everyone’s, how this crucial variation impacts art practice, and indeed art history, has barely been addressed. We seek to correct this omission by pursuing the implications of how artists with aphantasia (the absence of mental imagery) and hyperphantasia (imagery of extreme vividness) describe their working processes. The findings remind us of the need to challenge normative, universalizing models of art making and art maker.

Source: Art Journal

DOI: 10.1080/00043249.2022.2110444

Authors: Matthew MacKisack, Susan Aldworth, Fiona Macpherson, John Onians, Crawford Winlove, Adam Zeman

Institutions: China Academy of Art, University of Exeter, University of Glasgow, University of East Anglia

Language: English

Topic: Visual Culture and Art Theory

Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Arts and Humanities Research Council

Awards: Extreme Imagination in Mind, Brain and Culture, G5926285914