Conceptual Writing

The readings for Monday were very different from what I am used to reading. Normally I would think of writing as creative and artistic, but Goldsmith says in “Sentences on Conceptual Writing” that his type of writing is “uncreative writing.” To me, that is like someone saying that they are going to paint an uncreative picture. It just doesn’t seem to mesh. Uncreative writing seems to be very systematic like in the one piece that appears to be a radio traffic channel written down and the other piece that appears to be a work where all the word’s part of speech is substituted for the word itself. This made me think about what makes a work creative. Is a creative idea a new idea?