Creating Minds An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Ghandi

by Gardner, Howard E

• ISBN13: 9780465027743
• ISBN10: 0465027741
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-06
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

Since it was first published in 1993, Creating Mindshas served as a peerless guide to the creative self. Now available as a paperback reissue with a new introduction by the author, the book uses portraits of seven extraordinary individuals to reveal the patterns that drive the creative process--and to demonstrate how circumstance also plays an indispensable role in creative success.

Author Biography

Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in 1981, the Prince of Asturias Prize in Social Science in 2011, and twenty-nine honorary degrees, he is the author of more than twenty books. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Preface to the 2011 Edition	p. xiii
Introduction
Chance Encounters in Wartime Zurich	p. 3
Approaches to Creativity	p. 19
The Creators of the Modern Era
Sigmund Freud: Alone with the World	p. 47
Albert Einstein: The Perennial Child	p. 83
Interlude One	p. 124
Pablo Picasso: Prodigiousness and Beyond	p. 127
Igor Stravinsky: The Poetics and Politics of Music	p. 173
T. S. Eliot: The Marginal Master	p. 211
Interlude Two	p. 243
Martha Graham: Discovering the Dance of America	p. 247
Mahatma Gandhi: A Hold upon Others	p. 289
Interlude Three	p. 328
Conclusion
Creativity Across the Domains	p. 333
Epilogue: The Modern Era and Beyond	p. 363
Notes	p. 377
Bibliography	p. 405
Name Index	p. 421
Subject Index	p. 429
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