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As human beings we all have creative potential, a quality essential to human development and a vital component to healthy and happy lives. However this may often remain stifled by the choices we make, or ways in which we choose to live in our daily lives. Framed by the 'Four Ps of Creativity�...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | London, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave studies in creativity and culture
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| Summary: |
As human beings we all have creative potential, a quality essential to human development and a vital component to healthy and happy lives. However this may often remain stifled by the choices we make, or ways in which we choose to live in our daily lives. Framed by the 'Four Ps of Creativity' -- product, person, process, press -- this book offers an alternative understanding of the fundamentals of ordinary creativity. Ruth Richards highlights the importance of 'process', circumventing our common preoccupation with the product, or creative outcome, of creativity. By focusing instead on the creator and the creative process, she demonstrates how we may enhance our relationships with life, beauty, future possibilities, and one another. This book illustrates how our daily life styles and choices, as well as our environments, may enable and allow creativity; whereas environments not conducive to creative flow may kill creative potential. Also explored are questions of 'normality', beauty and nuance in creativity, as well as creative relationships. |
| Carrier Form: | xxiii, 390 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-376) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781137557650 1137557656 9781349718405 1349718408 9781349718399 1349718394 |
| Index Number: | BF408 |
| CLC: | G305 |
| Call Number: | G305/R517 |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Missing worlds -- 3. Creative palette -- 4. Change and open systems -- 5. Moments of insight -- 6. Flavors of (creative) mind -- 7. Emergence of life and creativity -- 8. "Popcorn" : a model (ongoing creative insights) -- 9. Creative person -- 10. Creative space -- 11. Deep sea diving -- 12. A new normal -- 13. Creative (compensatory) advantage -- 14. Empathy and relational creativity -- 15. Beauty, the sublime, the hidden -- 16. Fingerprints of chaos, nuance, and creativity -- 17. Higher horizons : three views -- 18. Afterword : 12 points to ponder, then smile! |