Creativity and Art: Three Roads to Surprise by Margaret A. Boden (English) Paper

Description: Creativity and Art by Margaret A. Boden Margaret Boden presents a series of essays in which she explores the nature of creativity in a wide range of art forms. Creativity is the generation of novel, surprising, and valuable ideas. Boden identifies three forms of creativity (combinational, exploratory, and transformational) each eliciting a different form of surprise. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Margaret Boden presents a series of essays in which she explores the nature of creativity in a wide range of art forms. Creativity in general is the generation of novel, surprising, and valuable ideas (conceptual, theoretical, musical, literary, or visual). Boden identifies three forms of creativity: combinational, exploratory, and transformational. These elicit differing forms of surprise, and are defined by the different kinds of psychological process thatgenerate the new ideas. Boden examines creativity not only in traditional fine art, but also in craftworks, and some less orthodox approaches--namely, conceptual art and several types of computer art. HerIntroduction draws out the conceptual links between the various case-studies, showing how they express a coherent view of creativity in art. Author Biography Margaret A. Boden is Research Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Sussex. She is a Fellow (and past Vice-President) of the British Academy, and of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (and its British and European equivalents), and a member of the Academia Europaea. In 2002 she was awarded an OBE for services to Cognitive Science, and she holds a Cambridge ScD as well as honorary doctorates from Bristol, Sussex, and the OpenUniversity. Educated at Cambridge and Harvard, her earlier degrees were in medical sciences, philosophy, and psychology. Table of Contents PrefaceAcknowledgments1: Introduction2: Creativity in a Nutshell3: Are Autodidacts Creative?4: Crafts, Perception, and the Possibilities of the Body5: Creativity and Conceptual Art6: Personal Signatures in Art7: What is Generative Art?8: Agents and Creativity9: Autonomy, Integrity, and Computer Art10: Authenticity and Computer Art11: Aesthetics and Interactive Art12: Is Metabolism Necessary?Index Review `Review from previous edition brimming with interesting ideas and fascinating examples, presented in a clear, lively, and engaging fashion. Bodens book is essential reading for anyone interested in creativity in art or in computer art, and it deserves to be widely read and admired.British Journal of Aesthetics Promotional A series of essays exploring the nature of creativity in a wide range of art forms Long Description Margaret Boden presents a series of essays in which she explores the nature of creativity in a wide range of art forms. Creativity in general is the generation of novel, surprising, and valuable ideas (conceptual, theoretical, musical, literary, or visual). Boden identifies three forms of creativity: combinational, exploratory, and transformational. These elicit differing forms of surprise, and are defined by the different kinds of psychological process thatgenerate the new ideas. Boden examines creativity not only in traditional fine art, but also in craftworks, and some less orthodox approaches--namely, conceptual art and several types of computer art. Her Introduction draws out the conceptual links between the various case-studies, showing how they expressa coherent view of creativity in art. Review Text `Review from previous edition brimming with interesting ideas and fascinating examples, presented in a clear, lively, and engaging fashion. Bodens book is essential reading for anyone interested in creativity in art or in computer art, and it deserves to be widely read and admired. British Journal of Aesthetics Review Quote Review from previous edition: "brimming with interesting ideas and fascinating examples, presented in a clear, lively, and engaging fashion. Bodens book is essential reading for anyone interested in creativity in art or in computer art, and it deserves to be widely read and admired." --British Journal of Aesthetics Feature Boden is one of the worlds most eminent cognitive scientistsGround-breaking interdisciplinary essaysFollow-up to Bodens classic 1990 book The Creative Mind, which pioneered the academic study of creativity Details ISBN0199659397 Author Margaret A. Boden Short Title CREATIVITY & ART Language English ISBN-10 0199659397 ISBN-13 9780199659395 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2012 Imprint Oxford University Press Subtitle Three Roads to Surprise Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Residence US Illustrations black & white illustrations Affiliation University of Sussex UK Release Date 2012-10-25 Publication Date 2012-10-25 AU Release Date 2012-10-25 NZ Release Date 2012-10-25 Pages 272 Publisher Oxford University Press Alternative 9780199590735 DEWEY 701.15 Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:97522836;

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