Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human InnovationOxford University Press, 19/01/2006 - 368 páginas 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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... selected individuals. Socrates, for example, attributed most of his knowledge to his demon (Becker, 2000–2001). Aristotle believed that creative individuals were melancholic; but this didn't mean he thought they were depressed; the word ...
... selected individuals. Socrates, for example, attributed most of his knowledge to his demon (Becker, 2000–2001). Aristotle believed that creative individuals were melancholic; but this didn't mean he thought they were depressed; the word ...
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... selection and evaluation take place. As Menand (1998) pointed out, “as long as 'art' is a term that confers value on an object (and there's no reason to have the term at all if it doesn't), people will mean something by it. . . . There ...
... selection and evaluation take place. As Menand (1998) pointed out, “as long as 'art' is a term that confers value on an object (and there's no reason to have the term at all if it doesn't), people will mean something by it. . . . There ...
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... selection processes are not opposed to creativity, but rather are a central part of all creative activities. Myth: Creativity Is the Same Thing as Originality In 1917, Marcel Duchamp submitted a new work to be considered for an ...
... selection processes are not opposed to creativity, but rather are a central part of all creative activities. Myth: Creativity Is the Same Thing as Originality In 1917, Marcel Duchamp submitted a new work to be considered for an ...
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... selection, and retention. There was no intentional designer; rather, nature itself is the creator. Prior to this foundational discovery of the nineteenth century, for centuries humankind believed that all species must have been created ...
... selection, and retention. There was no intentional designer; rather, nature itself is the creator. Prior to this foundational discovery of the nineteenth century, for centuries humankind believed that all species must have been created ...
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Índice
37 | |
Contextualist Approaches | 115 |
Artistic Creativity | 175 |
Everyday Creativity | 261 |
Epilogue | 315 |
References | 319 |
Index | 347 |
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