Sudden genius?
Subtitle: the gradual path to creative breakthroughs
By: Andrew Robinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9780199569953
Subjects: Creative ability; Gifted persons; Inspiration
Other titles: Gradual path to creative breakthroughs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-358) and index.
Table of contents: title: Meetings with remarkable creators; title: The science and art of breakthoughs. Ingredients of creativity; title: Genius and talent: reality or myth?; title: Intelligence is not enough; title: Strangers to ourselves; title: Blue remembered Wednesdays; title: The lunatic, the lover, and the poet; title: Ten breakthroughs in art and science. Leonardo da Vinci: The Last Supper; title: Christopher Wren: St Paul's Cathedral; title: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The marriage of Figaro; title: Jean-François Champollion: Decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs; title: Charles Darwin: Evolution by natural selection; title: Marie Curie: Discovery of radium; title: Albert Einstein: Special relativity; title: Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway; title: Henri Cartier-Bresson: The decisive moment; title: Satyajit Ray: Pather Panchali; title: Patterns of genius. Family matters; title: Professor of the little finger; title: Creative science versus artistic creation; title: Is there a creative personality?; title: Reputation, fame, and genius; title: The 'ten-year rule'; title: Genius and us.