Creativity and Art: Three Roads to Surprise

by Margaret A. Boden

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199659397
• ISBN13: 9780199659395
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"