Aesthetics: A Comparison of the State of the Art Outside and Inside the Field of Textiles and Clothing Part One: Creator and Creative Process

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This is the first of three papers in which we review aesthetics literature published from 1970 to 1992, found outside and inside the field of textiles and clothing. The majority of the literature external to the field of textiles and clothing came from books and journal articles of the fields of anthropology, art history, marketing, philosophy, and psychology. We limited our review of textiles and clothing literature to articles found in Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, Dress, Home Economics Research Journal, Journal of Consumer Studies and Home Economics, and Textiles Research Journal. In this paper we provide definitions of the aesthetic object or experience found in the literature and also propose five categories useful in organizing aesthetics literature. The categories are: Creator, Creative Process, Object, Appreciation Process, and Appreciator. We review Creator and Creative Process literature. The Creator consists of literature that addresses the psychological and socio-cultural factors affecting the creator's aesthetic ability, participation in production, processes of production, and physical manifestations of the aesthetic product. The Creative Process contains literature that addresses the internal processes that take place in the creator during development of ideas through to the completion of the aesthetic product. A more thorough understanding of these topics has implications for the education of textiles and clothing students, as well as provides new insight into the process of creation of textile and apparel products in current and past societies from around the world.

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