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Vera John-Steiner - Creative Collaboration - 9780195307702 - V9780195307702
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Creative Collaboration

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Description for Creative Collaboration Paperback. What is the true nature of thinking? Can it best be understood as a solitary activity of a lone individual? This book suggests that our grasp of creativity is impoverished because we fail to recognise the vital roles that partnerships, collaborations, friendships, and communities play in our thinking, learning, and understanding. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14 halftones & line illustrations. BIC Classification: JMH; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 414.
In Creative Collaboration, Vera John-Steiner offers rare and fascinating glimpses into the dynamic alliances from which some of our most important scholarly ideas, scientific theories and art forms are born. Within these pages we witness the creative process unfolding in the intimate relationships of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Henry Miller and Anais Nin, Marie and Pierre Curie, Martha Graham and Erick Hawkins, and Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz; the productive partnerships of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, Albert Einstein and Marcel Grossman, Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, and Freeman Dyson and Richard Feynman; the familial collaborations of Thomas ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
282
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
413g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195307702
SKU
V9780195307702
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Vera John-Steiner
Vera John-Steiner has been a leading scholar of creativity and education for over 30 years. Her book, Notebooks of the Mind: Explorations of Thinking, won the 1990 William James Book Award from the American Psychological Association. A Professor of Linguistics and Education at the University of New Mexico, she lives in Santa Fe.

Reviews for Creative Collaboration
"As studies of creative collaborations go, Vera John-Steiner's is a model of scholarship and deep understanding of the human psyche. Her book is a must for creativity studies." American Scientist "Draws on a wide range of examples from the arts and sciences and includes a valuable bibliography that covers both popular and scholarly works on many aspects of partnership and ... Read more

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