the gradual path to creative breakthroughs Robinson, Andrew creator text bibliography enk Oxford New York Oxford University Press 2010 monographic eng

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xxxv, 371 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. Meetings with remarkable creators -- The science and art of breakthoughs. Ingredients of creativity -- Genius and talent: reality or myth? -- Intelligence is not enough -- Strangers to ourselves -- Blue remembered Wednesdays -- The lunatic, the lover, and the poet -- Ten breakthroughs in art and science. Leonardo da Vinci: The Last Supper -- Christopher Wren: St Paul’s Cathedral -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The marriage of Figaro -- Jean-François Champollion: Decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs -- Charles Darwin: Evolution by natural selection -- Marie Curie: Discovery of radium -- Albert Einstein: Special relativity -- Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway -- Henri Cartier-Bresson: The decisive moment -- Satyajit Ray: Pather Panchali -- Patterns of genius. Family matters -- Professor of the little finger -- Creative science versus artistic creation -- Is there a creative personality? -- Reputation, fame, and genius -- The ’ten-year rule’ -- Genius and us general Andrew Robinson Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-358) and index Creative ability Inspiration Gifted persons 9780199569953 (hbk.) 0199569959 (hbk.) UMP 111220 20251117150310.0 vtls000057737