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Crickmay interviews Marion Milner about her theories of the creative process. Examples of her painting are shown.
Crickmay interviews Marion Milner about her theories of the creative process. Examples of her painting are shown.
| Module code and title: | TAD292, Art and environment |
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| Item code: | TAD292; 03 |
| First transmission date: | 14-04-1976 |
| Published: | 1976 |
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| Duration: | 00:23:42 |
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| Producer: | Andrew Crilly |
| Contributors: | Christopher Lindsey Crickmay; Marion Milner |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Creative inhibitions; Necessity of illusion; Painting; Psychology; Undifferentiation |
| Footage description: | Over a photograph of her at home, Christopher Crickmay briefly introduces artist and psychoanalyst Marion Milner. She has devoted her life to studying creativity and what inhibits it. In interview, Milner describes how the keeping of a diary led to her discovery of her own creativity and her decision to paint. She gives advice on how to keep a useful record of one's sensory experiences. Crickmay comments on people's attitude to their environment. Milner then explains what can affect creativity, such as fatigue and anxiety. She displays a painting by one of her psychiatric patients in order to illustrate her argument. She explains her conception of Self, and the way that it can be moved at will to the states of Me and Not Me. Milner explains how her later study of her diary led her to conclusions of a psychoanalytic nature. She explains her view of the purpose of life, and the role of innate creativity. In voice over Crickmay comments on one of Milner's drawings which is displayed. Milner then explains in detail what each part of the drawing represents, and what it relates to in her past. She outlines the process of selecting images from one's memories. Shots of Milner's book On Not Being Able to Paint and of a number of the free drawings from the book. Milner analyses one of the sketches in detail, and explains how some of the drawings conform to her theory of opposite forces in human nature. Milner explains the role of pliable media such as clay, paint, dance, music and speech in creative activity. She defines creativity as lifting an image from the stream of consciousness for contemplation. Over shots of some of her drawings, Milner explains the importance of chaos in free drawing. Crickmay comments on the value of re-interpreting such drawings, and Milner describes a specific example. She also explains why creativity is dependent upon an inner awareness. Crickmay and Milner comment respectively on the value of a frame in painting and of daydreaming. Crickmay concludes the programme by reviewing some of its themes. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/72120 |
| Production number: | 00525_5211 |
| Videofinder number: | 1075 |
| Available to public: | no |
