NETWORKS & THE CREATIVE PROCESS
THE CREATIVE PERSONALITY
THE BRAIN IN CONTEXT
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THE ROLE OF PERSONALITY
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
GARDNER & MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
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COMPARATIVE CASE STUDIES
A DIVERSE SAMPLE OF CREATORS
FINDING UNITY IN DIVERSITY
MODERNISM: THE COMMON ZEITGEIST
DEVELOPMENT OVER TIME
HOW DOES GARDNER’S WORK RELATE TO
NETWORKS?
Gardner’s Model
Individual As Child & Master
The Work, Relevant
Symbol system in domain
Other Persons, family, peers,
judges
Gardner’s Model
A CONFLUENCE OF INFLUENCES
INTERACTION BETWEEN CHILD & ADULT
WHAT IS THE CAPITAL OF CREATIVITY?
A BOURGEOIS BACKGROUND
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CHILDHOOD FANTASIES/PUZZLES
SEEKING OUT THE CITY LIFE
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ON THE MARGIN
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THE ROLE OF PEERS
SOCIAL SUPPORT AT TIME OF BREAKTHROUGH
THE FAUSTIAN BARGAIN
INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
INTERACTION BETWEEN CREATORS AND THE
DOMAIN
MASTERY OF THE DOMAIN: THE TEN YEAR RULE
ANOMALIES AND PUZZLES
STEPPING OUTSIDE THE DOMAIN
A NEW SYMBOL SYSTEM
RECONSTRUCTING THE DOMAIN
RELATIONSHIP OF CREATOR TO SELF OVER TIME
INTELLECTUAL COMPARISONS
Strength Weakness
Freud Linguistic, personal Spacial, musical
Einstein Logica-spatial personal
Picasso Spatial, personal, body
scholastic
Stravinsky Musical, artistc
Elliot Linguistic, scholastic Musical, bodily
Graham Bodily, linguistic Logical-mathematic
Gandhi Personal, linguistic artistic
PERSONALITY & MOTIVATION
Disregard-ing others
Difficult towards others
Frankly sadistic
Einstein-Elliot
Ghandi Picasso
StravinskyGrahamFreud
SELF PROMOTION
Ordinary self promotion
Extraordinary self promotion
Einstein Picasso
Eliot Stravinsky
Gandhi Freud
Graham
THE SCIENTIFIC LIFE
THE ARTIST’S LIFE
LIFE OF THE PERFORMER
ASYMMETRIES & OPPORTUNITIES?
HISTORICAL CONTINGENCIES?
EPILOGUE: THE SYNAPTIC SELF
BLOGGING QUESTION
Gardner focuses on the modernist period. To what extent do you believe that his
conclusions might hold true today. How much does Zeitgeist matter, and in what ways. Are
there generic ways to characterize the ‘environment,’ that might allow for comparison
between different historical periods ?