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Exploring resonance theory and uncontrollability during co‐creative art making: A qualitative study among cancer patients
Purpose Co‐creation, characterised by artists and patients creating a joint work of art, may support patients with the integration of life events, such as living with cancer, into their life story. In the process of co‐creation, resonance relationships between patients, artists and material may evolve that support such integration. Using the framework of resonance theory, we aim to investigate if and how patients move through the three phases of resonance during a process of co‐creation and explore the role of uncontrollability in this process. Methods Ten patients who received cancer treatment with palliative intent completed co‐creation processes, which were audio recorded. These recordings were imported in Atlas‐Ti and analysed by applying content analysis. We searched for the three phases of resonance, Being affected, touched and moved; Self‐efficacy and responding; Adaptive transformation. We additionally searched for signs of uncontrollability. Results Patients used 4–8 sessions (median 5 sessions) with a duration 90–240 min per session (median duration 120 min). We found that patients move through the three phases of resonance during co‐creation processes. Uncontrollability both presents a challenge and an invitation to integrate experiences of contingency into one's life narrative. Patients express self‐recognition and the experience of contingency in their work of art. Conclusions Integration of experiences of contingency into a life narrative can be supported by the process of co‐creation of art, which invites patients to relate to their illness, their environment and themselves. The phases of resonance in combination with uncontrollability as a continuously present factor, provide a means to both study and support the integration of experiences of contingency into the life narrative. In the process of co‐creation, resonance relationships between patients, artists and material may evolve that support integration of experiences of contingency. In the current study we aim to investigate, if and how, palliative cancer patients move through the three phases of resonance during a process of co‐creation and explore the role of uncontrollability in this process.
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Some things I've lost
[The artist] Cybèle Young invites readers to consider the inevitability of change and the power of the imagination. The sculptures in this book were made entirely from Japanese paper.
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Using full-text content to characterize and identify best seller books: A study of early 20th-century literature
Artistic pieces can be studied from several perspectives, one example being their reception among readers over time. In the present work, we approach this interesting topic from the standpoint of literary works, particularly assessing the task of predicting whether a book will become a best seller. Unlike previous approaches, we focused on the full content of books and considered visualization and classification tasks. We employed visualization for the preliminary exploration of the data structure and properties, involving SemAxis and linear discriminant analyses. To obtain quantitative and more objective results, we employed various classifiers. Such approaches were used along with a dataset containing (i) books published from 1895 to 1923 and consecrated as best sellers by the Publishers Weekly Bestseller Lists and (ii) literary works published in the same period but not being mentioned in that list. Our comparison of methods revealed that the best-achieved result—combining a bag-of-words representation with a logistic regression classifier—led to an average accuracy of 0.75 both for the leave-one-out and 10-fold cross-validations. Such an outcome enhances the difficulty in predicting the success of books with high accuracy, even using the full content of the texts. Nevertheless, our findings provide insights into the factors leading to the relative success of a literary work.
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France : inspiration du jour : an artist's sketchbook
\"Experience the creative inspiration of France. Beloved artist Rae Dunn offers a look inside her unique travel sketchbooks--rich with evocative watercolors, dreamy photographs, and hand-lettered notes from her sojourns in Paris and the South of France. A celebration of the feast for the senses that is this beautiful region, France : Inspiration du Jour is also a window onto the artistic process and the magic of inspiration at work\"--Provided by publisher.
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Textile creativity through nature
\"Practical ideas for rewilding your creative practice. Internationally renowned textile artist Jeanette Appleton takes both budding and more experienced felters through a series of ideas for working with nature to nurture creativity, inspire, and make us more sustainable artists. Creating exciting felt surfaces that are both beautiful and versatile, she demonstrates how to capture the nuances of nature-lines of sea, hedge, and grass, cracks in parched earth, light on early morning dew, frosted puddles-and translate them into subtleties of texture and stitch. Exploring a variety of strategies for overcoming artists' block, the book is packed with practical ideas for rewilding your creative practice: changing the routes and patterns of your local environment to bring natural patterns into your own work; revisiting past diaries and sketchbooks to find lines, threads, and stitches that lead the way forward; transforming recycled cloth by bonding memories, mixed-media, and found objects into your work; making cuts and slits in the layers of fabric to reveal the secret strata of nature and the fragility of the planet beneath. Felt is an incredibly versatile medium, allowing control and creativity that ready-made fabrics cannot replicate. Appleton constantly challenges the felt process on this fascinating journey, discovering a new working practice through our connection with the outside world-and to reconnect where nature and creativity meet\"--Publisher's description.
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