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The Mind's Best Work.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1981Copyright date: ©1981Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (325 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674042032
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Mind's Best WorkDDC classification:
  • 153.3/5
LOC classification:
  • BF408
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- A Parable -- 1 Witnesses to Invention -- 2 Creative Moments -- 3 Ways of the Mind -- 4 Critical Moments -- 5 Searching For -- 6 Plans Down Deep -- 7 Plans Up Front -- 8 Lives of Inquiry -- 9 Having It -- 10 The Shape of Making -- Notes -- Sources -- Index.
Summary: Over the years, tales about the creative process have flourished-- tales of sudden insight and superior intelligence and personal eccentricity. D. N. Perkins discusses the creative episodes of Beethoven, Mozart, Picasso, and others in this exploration of the creative process in the arts, sciences, and everyday life.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- A Parable -- 1 Witnesses to Invention -- 2 Creative Moments -- 3 Ways of the Mind -- 4 Critical Moments -- 5 Searching For -- 6 Plans Down Deep -- 7 Plans Up Front -- 8 Lives of Inquiry -- 9 Having It -- 10 The Shape of Making -- Notes -- Sources -- Index.

Over the years, tales about the creative process have flourished-- tales of sudden insight and superior intelligence and personal eccentricity. D. N. Perkins discusses the creative episodes of Beethoven, Mozart, Picasso, and others in this exploration of the creative process in the arts, sciences, and everyday life.

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