ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book offers original theoretical and methodological perspectives for the study of artistic practices. It explores the meaning of practice from Aristotle through Ludwig Wittgenstein to Theodore Schatzki and offers a conceptual framework for the analysis of artistic creation as a complex and incremental process. The book represents a practice-theoretical treatment of art. It moves to literary writing processes. Tasos Zembylas explores the nexus between the sociology of the arts and the tacit-knowing approach and discusses its application in the empirical investigation of the artistic creative process. He sheds light on the generation and integration of creative ideas, on the relevance of experience, the way writers face particular challenges that arise out of the openness and fragility of creative processes, and on the influence of their peers.
