Research on creativity tends to stress the importance of context-free thought, the content of which is independent of what is present to the senses of the agent. Indeed, the capacity to disregard what is real and turn towards the imaginary is essential for creativity. Yet, this does not entail that creativity in general, as an activity, is independent of the context in which it occurs (Brinck 1999). Except for explaining what it means to say that cognition is situated and dynamic, Sections 2 and 3 also will elucidate what context-independence entails in the case of artistic creativity. .
