Abstract: Over the years, tales about the creative process have flourished-tales of sudden insight and superior intelligence and personal eccentricity. Coleridge claimed that he wrote Kubla Khan in one sitting after an opium-induced dream. Poe declared that his Raven was worked out with the precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem. D. N. Perkins discusses the creative episodes of Beethoven, Mozart, Picasso, and others in this exploration of the creative process in the arts, sciences, and everyday life.
Publication Year: 1981
Publication Date: 1981-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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