The Making of Creative Artists

这个项目旨在研究艺术家的创造力是如何发展起来的。通过分析五组艺术家(从本科生到老牌实践者)的经历，考察了受试者的创作观和他们在实践中出现的创作过程。使用皮埃尔·布尔迪厄的理论框架，并由首席调查员之一(Chan)改进，该项目采用纵向研究设计来考察新手创造力的发展。与创造力研究的正统文献背景相比，该项目在解释创造力在职业社会学中的作用方面开辟了新的天地。

This project is designed to examine how creativity is developed among artists. Through analysing the experience of five groups of artists (from undergraduate students to established practitioners), it investigates subjects' conceptions of creativity and the creative processes emergent within their practice. Using a theoretical framework based on Pierre Bourdieu and refined by one of the chief investigators (Chan), the project employs a longitudinal research design to examine the development of creativity among novices. Contrasted against a background of orthodox literature in creativity research the project breaks new ground in explaining the role of creativity in the sociology of occupations.