Sudden genius? : the gradual path to creative breakthroughs / Andrew Robinson.
Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: xxxv, 371 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780199569953 (hbk.)
- 0199569959 (hbk.)
- Gradual path to creative breakthroughs
- Creative ability
- Inspiration
- Gifted persons
- Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519
- Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
- Champollion, Jean-FrancÌois, 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
- 153.980922 22
- BF408 .R5154 2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [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-FrancÌois 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.