Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human InnovationOxford University Press, 19 янв. 2006 г. - Всего страниц: 368 Explaining Creativity is an accessible introduction to the latest scientific research on creativity. In the last 50 yearss, psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists have increasingly studied creativity, and we now know more about creativity that at any point in history. Explaining Creativity considers not only arts like painting and writing, but also science, stage performance, and business innovation. Until about a decade ago, creativity researchers tended to focus on highly valued activities like fine art painting and Nobel prize winning science. Sawyer brings this research up to date by including movies, music videos, cartoons, videogames, hypertext fiction, and computer technology. For example, this is the first book on creativity to include studies of performance and improvisation. Sawyer draws on the latest research findings to show the importance of collaboration and context in all of these creative activities. Today's science of creativity is interdisciplinary; in addition to psychological studies of creativity, Explaining Creativity includes research by anthropologists on creativity in non-Western cultures, and research by sociologists about the situations, contexts, and networks of creative activity. Explaining Creativity brings these approaches together within the sociocultural approach to creativity pioneered by Howard Becker, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Howard Gardner. The sociocultural approach moves beyond the individual to consider the social and cultural contexts of creativity, emphasizing the role of collaboration and context in the creative process. |
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... idea for this book was born in a conversation with Joan Bossert, and my editor Catharine Carlin ably managed the process. And I'd like to thank my wife, Barb, who made this book possible; I started working on it soon after our wedding ...
... idea for this book was born in a conversation with Joan Bossert, and my editor Catharine Carlin ably managed the process. And I'd like to thank my wife, Barb, who made this book possible; I started working on it soon after our wedding ...
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... idea; others will require groups of individuals to work together creatively as a unit. Explaining creativity helps us realize the importance of positive, peak experiences to mental health. During peak experiences known as flow, people ...
... idea; others will require groups of individuals to work together creatively as a unit. Explaining creativity helps us realize the importance of positive, peak experiences to mental health. During peak experiences known as flow, people ...
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... idea that an artist works alone is less than 200 years old. In the ancient system of apprenticeship in studios, artists worked in hierarchically structured teams. To learn art, a child, sometimes as young as the age of seven, was ...
... idea that an artist works alone is less than 200 years old. In the ancient system of apprenticeship in studios, artists worked in hierarchically structured teams. To learn art, a child, sometimes as young as the age of seven, was ...
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... idea that artists have a unique message to communicate is also only a few hundred years old. For most of European history, artists were considered primarily craftsmen. When a noble contracted for a work with a painter, the contract ...
... idea that artists have a unique message to communicate is also only a few hundred years old. For most of European history, artists were considered primarily craftsmen. When a noble contracted for a work with a painter, the contract ...
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... idea of painting outdoors, but this innovation would not have been possible without the invention of tubes of paint, which only became available in the 19th century. The modern concept of the artist—isolated, independent, inspired—could ...
... idea of painting outdoors, but this innovation would not have been possible without the invention of tubes of paint, which only became available in the 19th century. The modern concept of the artist—isolated, independent, inspired—could ...
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Contextualist Approaches | 115 |
Artistic Creativity | 175 |
Everyday Creativity | 261 |
Epilogue | 315 |
References | 319 |
Index | 347 |
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