Sudden genius? : the gradual path to creative breakthroughs /
Robinson, Andrew, 1957-
Sudden genius? : the gradual path to creative breakthroughs / Gradual path to creative breakthroughs Andrew Robinson. - xxxv, 371 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-358) and index.
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.
0199569959 9780199569953
2010930304
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519
Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
Champollion, Jean-François, 1790-1832
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
Curie, Marie, 1867-1934
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 1908-2004
Ray, Satyajit, 1921-1992
Inspiration
Gifted persons
BF408 / .R5154 2010
153.980922
Sudden genius? : the gradual path to creative breakthroughs / Gradual path to creative breakthroughs Andrew Robinson. - xxxv, 371 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-358) and index.
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.
0199569959 9780199569953
2010930304
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519
Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
Champollion, Jean-François, 1790-1832
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
Curie, Marie, 1867-1934
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 1908-2004
Ray, Satyajit, 1921-1992
Inspiration
Gifted persons
BF408 / .R5154 2010
153.980922