Experiências criativas sob o olhar sociológico

Abstract

In the article we point out the opportunity of a sociological analysesbased upon the processes used by artists to create their work. Weare particularly interested on the special states of creation, relatedby artists, that would follow the so called creative flow, or aninspiration, or a revelation - eventual and uncommon situationswhich, for many of them, constitutes the fundament and specialcharacteristic of the artistic activity and which most of times neithersociological or anthropological literature on art analyses or eventake into account as part of their motive.