Sudden genius? : the gradual path to creative breakthroughs / Andrew Robinson.
Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: xxxv, 371 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0199569959
- 9780199569953
- Gradual path to creative breakthroughs
- 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
- 153.980922 22
- BF408 .R5154 2010
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Book | North Campus North Campus Main Collection | 153.980922 ROB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A498259B |
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.
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