Mind's Best Work Paperback by D. N. Perkins

Product Details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press (1981-01-06)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 324 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780674576247
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

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.

About the Author

D.N. Perkins is Director of Harvard Project Zero, Senior Research Associate, and Lecturer On Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education.