Examining Creativity in Health and Care

Brodzinski, Emma; Munt, Deborah

doi:10.1007/s10728-009-0128-x

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“…Others have studied several mechanisms through which artistic creativity could have an effect on health and ageing [42]–[55]. Some have found that art and music interventions can enhance bodily control or improve pain management [43].…”

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Arts and Ageing; Life Expectancy of Historical Artists in the Low Countries

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Practising arts has been linked to lowering stress, anxiety and blood pressure. These mechanisms are all known to affect the ageing process. Therefore, we examine the relation between long-term involvement in arts and life expectancy at age 50 (LE50), in a cohort of 12,159 male acoustic, literary and visual artists, who were born between 1700 and 1899 in the Low Countries. We compared the life expectancy at age 50 of the various artists with the elite and middle class of that time. In the birth cohorts before 1850, acoustic (LE50:14.5–19.5) and literary artists (LE50:17.8–20.8) had a similar life expectancy at age 50 compared to the elite (LE50:18.0–19.0). Only visual artists (LE50:15.5–17.1) had a lower life expectancy at age 50 compared to the elite at that time. For the most recent birth cohorts from 1850 through 1899, the comparison between artists and the elite reversed and acoustic and literary artist had a lower life expectancy at age 50, while visual artists enjoyed a similar life expectancy at age 50. Although artists belonged to the middle socioeconomic class and lived predominantly in urban areas with poor living conditions, they had a life expectancy similar to the elite population. This is in line with observed favourable effects of practicing arts on health in the short-term. From our historical analysis, we hypothesize several mechanisms through which artistic creativity could influence the ageing process and life expectancy. These hypotheses, however, should be formally tested before any definite conclusions on effects of arts on ageing can be drawn.

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Arts and Ageing; Life Expectancy of Historical Artists in the Low Countries

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“…Liminality—the “blurring and crossing of thresholds and boundaries” (Butler Brown, 2007: 5) and “time outside time” (Turner, 1982: 253)—has been considered a feature of the postmodern world (Butler Brown, 2007: 5) and linked with creativity. Emma Brodzinski and Deborah Munt (2009: 279) even refer to it as a “metaphor for the creative process,” or to put this another way, creativity occurs “in the realm that acts as a threshold and a container for possibilities” (Govan and Munt, 2003).…”

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A Giacometti portrait, postmodern emergence, and creativity

Rae

2016

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The notion of "postmodern emergence" is being used increasingly to frame and inform investigations into a diverse range of topics, and it is likely that this will continue. Postmodern emergence offers promise to researchers who seek alternative ways of generating new knowledge and want to work with creativity. However, the nature of the relationship between postmodern emergence and creativity has not been fully explored. Using a particular creative act, the painting of a portrait by artist Alberto Giacometti, and drawing on my own arts-based research, the synergies between postmodern emergence and a practice-theoretical approach to creativity are identified and unpacked from ontological and epistemological positions. Recognizing the place and value of creativity in postmodern emergence serves to support the work of postmodern emergence researchers, and indeed other qualitative researchers.

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“…But not all forms of creative art are integrated equally in medical education. Attending live music or theatre performances seems less common, and the avant-garde and community arts are also rare, (Brodzinski and Munt, 2009;Bolaki, 2016) except for works that explore illness experiences.…”

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confidence: 99%