Finding the Muse: A Sociopsychological Inquiry Into the Conditions of Artistic CreativityFinding the Muse explores the lives of a group of aspiring fine artists from the mid 1960s, when they completed art school, to the mid 1980s, focusing especially on problems of artistic creativity as they relate to such issues as the mystique of the artist, the challenge of establishing community among artists, the place of the art market in the construction of artistic identity, and the limits and possibilities of modern and postmodern art itself. By