Overview
In the 12 case studies in this treasure of a book, various authors examine the critical, direction-finding moments in the work of such individuals as Charles Darwin, Jean Piaget, Robert Burns Woodward, William James, Anais Nin, and others. --Virginia Quarterly Review
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Author: Doris B. Wallace (Senior Research Psychologist, Bank Street College, New York) ,
Howard E. Gruber (Visiting Professor, Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 23.60cm
Weight: 0.459kg
ISBN: 9780195077186
ISBN 10: 0195077180
Pages: 316
Publication Date: 25 June 1992
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
excellent text ... The value of studying creativity by closely examining the work of creative individuals is ilustrated in this text. The work will appeal to specialists in the field such as psychologists and educators, but the style is such that a broad range of individuals interested in creativity will find the test informative as well as a pleasure to read. * Delmont Morrison, University of California, Imagination, Cognition, and Personality *
In the 12 case studies in this treasure of a book, various authors examine the critical, direction-finding moments in the work of such individuals as Charles Darwin, Jean Piaget, Robert Burns Woodward, William James, Anais Nin, and others. Each story is as different as each brain and heart, and all are fascinating. --Virginia Quarterly Review Provides a detailed and fascinating look at the lives of individuals of unusual creative distinction . . . each one visible face to face, diverse witnesses to the protean development of human potential. --Scientific America Wallace and Gruber dispel some popular misconceptions about adult creativity with case studies of the following individuals as adults: Lavoisier, Krebs, Faraday, Darwin, William James, Einstein, Piaget, R.B. Woodward, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Richardson, Anais Nin, and Melissa Zink . . . . Recommended for all library collections. --Choice The rich study of purpose in creativity that distinguishes Wallace and Gruber's Creative People at Work. . . . informative and up-to-date about creativity. . . . scientifically sound, with abundant references to both the scientific literature and the rich artistic background of the subjects. --American Journal of Art Therapy The authors reveal the wonderful, subtle complexity of individual purposes as they interweave specific historical and societal frameworks. It is to their enormous credit that in treading where many others have gone before they break through accumulated clouds of mystification and obscurantism, not destroying the grander mystery of creativity but offering instead a perceptive examination of its actions, purposes, and outcomes. . . . they never lose sight of their subjects as essentially everyday human beings engaged in an essentially human enterprise. . . . offers critical reading for psychologists, philosophers, teachers. --New Ideas in Psychology The value of studying creativity by closely examining the work of creative individuals is illustrated in this text....Will appeal to specialists in the field such as psychologists and educators, but the style is such that a broad range of individuals interested in creativity will find the text informative as well as a pleasure to read. --Imagination, Cognition and Personality Gruber and Wallace are the theoretical and scholarly shapers of this volume and they ask at the outset: What do creative people do when they are being creative? It is to their enormous credit that in treading where many others have gone before they break through accumulated clouds of mystification and obscurantism, not destroying the grander mystery of creativity but offering instead a perceptive examination of its actions, purposes, and outcomes. It is even more to the credit of the authors of this volume that they never lose sight of their subjects as essentially everyday human beings engaged in an essentially human enterprise. Offers critical reading for psychologists, philosophers, teachers, and all those who know that to support creative action is first to understand it. --New Ideas in Psychology In the 12 case studies in this treasure of a book, various authors examine the critical, direction-finding moments in the work of such individuals as Charles Darwin, Jean Piaget, Robert Burns Woodward, William James, Anais Nin, and others. Each story is as different as each brain and heart, and all are fascinating. --Virginia Quarterly Review Provides a detailed and fascinating look at the lives of individuals of unusual creative distinction . . . each one visible face to face, diverse witnesses to the protean development of human potential. --Scientific America Wallace and Gruber dispel some popular misconceptions about adult creativity with case studies of the following individuals as adults: Lavoisier, Krebs, Faraday, Darwin, William James, Einstein, Piaget, R.B. Woodward, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Richardson, Anais Nin, and Melissa Zink . . . . Recommended for all library collections. --Choice The rich study of purpose in creativity that distinguishes Wallace and Gruber's Creative People at Work. . . . informative and up-to-date about creativity. . . . scientifically sound, with abundant references to both the scientific literature and the rich artistic background of the subjects. --American Journal of Art Therapy The authors reveal the wonderful, subtle complexity of individual purposes as they interweave specific historical and societal frameworks. It is to their enormous credit that in treading where many others have gone before they break through accumulated clouds of mystification and obscurantism, not destroying the grander mystery of creativity but offering instead a perceptive examination of its actions, purposes, and outcomes. . . . they never lose sight of their subjects as essentially everyday human beings engaged in an essentially human enterprise. . . . offers critical reading for psychologists, philosophers, teachers. --New Ideas in Psychology The value of studying creativity by closely examining the work of creative individuals is illustrated in this text....Will appeal to specialists in the field such as psychologists and educators, but the style is such that a broad range of individuals interested in creativity will find the text informative as well as a pleasure to read. --Imagination, Cognition and Personality Gruber and Wallace are the theoretical and scholarly shapers of this volume and they ask at the outset: What do creative people do when they are being creative? It is to their enormous credit that in treading where many others have gone before they break through accumulated clouds of mystification and obscurantism, not destroying the grander mystery of creativity but offering instead a perceptive examination of its actions, purposes, and outcomes. It is even more to the credit of the authors of this volume that they never lose sight of their subjects as essentially everyday human beings engaged in an essentially human enterprise. Offers critical reading for psychologists, philosophers, teachers, and all those who know that to support creative action is first to understand it. --New Ideas in Psychology
Author Information
Doris B. Wallace received her doctorate from the Institute of Cognitive Studies at Rutgers University. She is a Senior Research Psychologist at Bank Street College of Education in New York, a family therapist, and a collaborator in an international study of children of the Holocaust. Howard E. Gruber was formerly Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Director of the Institute for Cognitive Studies at Rutgers University, and Professor of Genetic Psychology at the University of Geneva. He is currently Research Scholar at Teachers College, Columbia University.
