Creation on hold

Introduction

Internal incompleteness

The obscure object of a sense of completion

The creative process : its dynamic, non-linear nature

Orson Welles completed by Netflix. Reflections on the value of film in the digital age

Achèvements par-delà les frontières - Khovanshchina Paris 1913

Olivier Messiaen and his compositional strategies

The temptation to finish an unfinished work in place of the author : Nietzsche's Posthumous Fragments and Musil's Man Without Qualities

Rodin's non finito : the emotion of statuary delivered to the public

The social conditions for the emergence of the non finito in Italian art (^14th-16th c.)

Conclusion