Improvisation in the Arts

@article{Bresnahan2015ImprovisationIT,
  title={Improvisation in the Arts},
  author={Aili W. Bresnahan},
  journal={Philosophy Compass},
  year={2015},
  volume={10},
  pages={573-582}
}
This article focuses primarily on improvisation in the arts as discussed in philosophical aesthetics, supplemented with accounts of improvisational practice by arts theorists and educators. It begins with an overview of the term improvisation, first as it is used in general and then as it is used to describe particular products and practices in the individual arts. From here, questions and challenges that improvisation raises for the traditional work-of-art concept, the type-token distinction… 
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