Colin Martindale
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"In many poetic traditions, there has been a historical movement of similes and metaphors away from consistency toward remoteness and incongruity. Similar historical trends can be discovered in the other arts. Once European painters got the hang of how to render a two-dimensional representation of reality, they set about figuring out how to paint ever more distorted representations of reality. In fact, old-fashioned painters have always done representations that look fine to nonpainters ..." --The Clockwork Muse, Colin Martindale, 1990 |
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Colin Martindale (March 21, 1943 – November 16, 2008) was a professor of psychology at the University of Maine for 35 years.
Martindale wrote and did research analyzing artistic processes. His most popular work was The Clockwork Muse (1990). Martindale argued that all artistic development over time in written, visual and musical works was the result of a search for novelty.
Bibliography
- The Clockwork Muse: The Predictability of Artistic Change, New York: Basic Books, 1990, Template:ISBN
- Evolutionary and neurocognitive approaches to aesthetics, creativity, and the arts, Amityville, NY: Baywood Pub., 2007, Template:ISBN
