| Uniform title | Works. Selections |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Discovery-oriented behavior and the originality of creative products : a study with artists / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Jacob W. Getzels -- 2. The personality of young artists : an empirical and theoretical exploration / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Jacob W. Getzels -- 3. Culture, time and the development of talent / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Rick E. Robinson -- 4. Society, culture and person : a systems view of creativity / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- 5. Solving a problem is not finding a new one : a reply to Herbert Simon / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- 6. Shifting the focus from individual to organizational creativity / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and K. Sawyer -- 7. Creative insight : the social dimension of a solitary moment / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Keith Sawyer -- 8. Creativity and genius : a systems perspective / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- 9. The social construction of creative lives / Carol A. Mockros and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- 10. New conceptions and research approaches to creativity : implications of a systems perspective for creativity in education / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Rustin Wolfe -- 11. Catalytic creativity : the case of Linus Pauling / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Jeanne Nakamura -- 12. The motivational sources of creativity as viewed from the paradigm of positive psychology / Jeanne Nakamura and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- 13. The group as mentor / Charles Hooker, Jeanne Nakamura and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- 14. The artistic personality : a systems perspective / Sami Abuhamdeh and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- 15. Creativity through the life span from an evolutionary systems perspective / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Jeanne Nakamura -- 16. Cortical regions involved in the generation of musical structures during improvisation in pianists / Sara L. Bengtsson, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Fredrik Ullen -- 17. Creativity and responsibility / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Jeanne Nakamura -- 18. The early lives of highly creative persons : the influence of the complex family / R. Routledge, Gary Gute, Jeanne Nakamura and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. |
| Abstract |
This first volume of the Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi represents his work on Art and Creativity. Starting with his seminal 1964 study on creativity up to his 2010 publication in Newsweek, the volume spans over four decades of research and writing, and clearly shows Csikszentmihaly's own development as an academic, psychologist, researcher and person. Unconventional and unorthodox in his approach, Csikszentmihalyi chose the topic of creativity as a field of study believing it would help him be a better psychologist and advance his understanding of how to live a better life. The chapters in this volume trace the history of the study of creativity back to the days of Guilford and research on IQ and Jacob Getzels work on creativity and intelligence. Firmly grounded in that history, yet extending it in new directions, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi started his life-long study on artistic creativity. His first extensive study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago enabled him to observe, test and interview fine art students drawing in a studio. The study formed the very basis of all his work on the subject, and has resulted in several articles, represented in this volume, on such creativity-related concepts as problem solving versus problem finding, the personality of the artist, the influence of the social context, creativity as a social construction, developmental issues, and flow. The main contribution to the topic of creativity, and also the main concept explored in this volume, is the Systems Model of Creativity. Seven chapters in this volume discuss the development of this conceptual model and theory. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Works. Selections. Systems model of creativity 9789401790840 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9789401790857 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 940179085X (electronic bk.) |
| Standard identifier# |
10.1007/978-94-017-9085-7 |
