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    Creativity and Art by Boden, Margaret A.;

    Three Roads to Surprise

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 25 October 2012

    • ISBN 9780199659395
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages272 pages
    • Size 216x141x14 mm
    • Weight 320 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    Margaret Boden presents a series of essays in which she explores the nature of creativity in a wide range of art forms. Creativity is the generation of novel, surprising, and valuable ideas. Boden identifies three forms of creativity (combinational, exploratory, and transformational) each eliciting a different form of surprise.

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    Long description:

    Margaret Boden presents a series of essays in which she explores the nature of creativity in a wide range of art forms. Creativity in general is the generation of novel, surprising, and valuable ideas (conceptual, theoretical, musical, literary, or visual). Boden identifies three forms of creativity: combinational, exploratory, and transformational. These elicit differing forms of surprise, and are defined by the different kinds of psychological process that generate the new ideas. Boden examines creativity not only in traditional fine art, but also in craftworks, and some less orthodox approaches--namely, conceptual art and several types of computer art. Her Introduction draws out the conceptual links between the various case-studies, showing how they express a coherent view of creativity in art.

    Review from previous edition brimming with interesting ideas and fascinating examples, presented in a clear, lively, and engaging fashion. Boden's book is essential reading for anyone interested in creativity in art or in computer art, and it deserves to be widely read and admired.

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    Table of Contents:

    Preface
    Acknowledgments
    Introduction
    Creativity in a Nutshell
    Are Autodidacts Creative?
    Crafts, Perception, and the Possibilities of the Body
    Creativity and Conceptual Art
    Personal Signatures in Art
    What is Generative Art?
    Agents and Creativity
    Autonomy, Integrity, and Computer Art
    Authenticity and Computer Art
    Aesthetics and Interactive Art
    Is Metabolism Necessary?
    Index

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