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The mind's best work

By D. N. Perkins

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
1981
ISBN
0674576276, 9780674576278, 0674576241, 9780674576247
LCC
BF408 .P387
Open Library ID
OL21230783M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2065717 bytes)
Edition
1st Edition.
Pages
325\325
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
200
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-07-29 05:14:56

Description

Over the years, tales about the creative process have flourished-tales of sudden insight and superior intelligence and personal eccentricity. Coleridge claimed that he wrote "Kubla Khan" in one sitting after an opium-induced dream. Poe declared that his "Raven" was worked out "with the precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem." D. N. Perkins discusses the creative episodes of Beethoven, Mozart, Picasso, and others in this exploration of the creative process in the arts, sciences, and everyday life.

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