Intellect

The study focuses primarily on the growth of awareness in creative artists- that shift away from namelessness, from simply serving a divinity or the community towards the itch to sign a name and be recognised as unique.

If there exists some quality, distinguishing creative artists from the non-creative, their attitude to their craft and to the achievements of other practitioners (earlier or contemporary) may provide the key.

The Artist on the Artist, inspired from the post graduate seminars conducted by Guest in Tokyo, seeks to investigate and answer these ideas and draws on multiple examples from writing and art movements. The investigation of artists from Dali and Cocteau, William Golding to the Victorian Poets, and Ibsen to Saul Bellow provides eclectic and rewarding reading.