In 1950, the American psychologist Joy P. Guilford delivered a lecture to the American Psychological Association (APA) calling for a scientific focus on creativity. Psychology knew little about creativity at the time. Years earlier, during WWII, the Air Force commissioned Guilford, then a psychologist at USC, to identify pilots who would respond to emergencies… read more »
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On “Small C” Creativity: A Response
In 1993, Harvard professor Howard Gardner published the book Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity. Three years later, in 1996, the Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi followed suit with Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (see my reading list on the left). Around the same time, research by the Swedish psychologist Anders Ericsson… read more »
Correcting Creativity: The Struggle for Eminence
By the time he put the finishing touches on the Rite of Spring in November of 1912 in the Châtelard Hotel in Clarens, Switzerland, Stravinsky had spent three years studying Russian pagan rituals, Lithuanian folk songs and crafting the dissonant sacre chord, in which an F-flat major combines with an E-flat major with added minor seventh. The rehearsal process… read more »
Correcting Creativity: The Struggle for Eminence
By the time he put the finishing touches on the Rite of Spring in November of 1912 in the Châtelard Hotel in Clarens, Switzerland, Stravinsky had spent three years studying Russian pagan rituals, Lithuanian folk songs and crafting the dissonant sacre chord, in which an F-flat major combines with an E-flat major with added minor seventh. The rehearsal process… read more »