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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... Writing 205 Chapter 12 Music 223 Chapter 13 Acting 243 interlude 4 Goodbye to Our Creativity Myths 259 Part V Everyday Creativity Chapter 14 Science 263 Chapter 15 Business Creativity 281 Chapter 16 How to Be More Creative 295 Epilogue ...
... Writing 205 Chapter 12 Music 223 Chapter 13 Acting 243 interlude 4 Goodbye to Our Creativity Myths 259 Part V Everyday Creativity Chapter 14 Science 263 Chapter 15 Business Creativity 281 Chapter 16 How to Be More Creative 295 Epilogue ...
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... writers in the English Romantic Movement begin to think that art might be created through nonrational processes (Abrams, 1984; Smith, 1961, p. 23). The Romantics believed that rational deliberation would kill the creative impulse ...
... writers in the English Romantic Movement begin to think that art might be created through nonrational processes (Abrams, 1984; Smith, 1961, p. 23). The Romantics believed that rational deliberation would kill the creative impulse ...
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... writers and artists sometimes behave eccentrically, and even voluntarily exaggerate these aspects of their personalities in psychological tests (Becker, 2000–2001). After all, many creative individuals believe that being normal is the ...
... writers and artists sometimes behave eccentrically, and even voluntarily exaggerate these aspects of their personalities in psychological tests (Becker, 2000–2001). After all, many creative individuals believe that being normal is the ...
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... writing that can make or break an artist's career—even though visual artists have never been known for their verbal skills (see chapter 10). Contemporary artists who simply paint or sculpt because they enjoy the process, or artists who ...
... writing that can make or break an artist's career—even though visual artists have never been known for their verbal skills (see chapter 10). Contemporary artists who simply paint or sculpt because they enjoy the process, or artists who ...
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... Writers on the topic tend to trot out the same tired examples repeatedly: we are told that Mendel's 19th-century work cross-breeding peas was not recognized as essential to modern genetics until 50 years later; or that the ...
... Writers on the topic tend to trot out the same tired examples repeatedly: we are told that Mendel's 19th-century work cross-breeding peas was not recognized as essential to modern genetics until 50 years later; or that the ...
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Contextualist Approaches | 115 |
Artistic Creativity | 175 |
Everyday Creativity | 261 |
Epilogue | 315 |
References | 319 |
Index | 347 |
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