Creativity and Beyond: Culture, Values, and Change

Weiner, Robert Paul

ISBN 10: 0791444783 / ISBN 13: 9780791444788

Published by State Univ of New York Pr, 2000

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1st edition. 352 pages. 6.00x9.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Creativity and Beyond: Culture, Values, and Change
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791444783
• ISBN 13: 9780791444788
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.54 kilograms

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Synopsis

Explores how historical, artistic, and technological developments and cross-cultural exchange have altered our conceptions of creativity.

Creativity and Beyond offers a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary tour of cultures past and present to examine the different ways people have conceived of "creativity" and how the common understanding of creativity is changing in the current flux of global culture. Weiner analyzes the ways in which understanding creativity is tied to broader contemporary patterns, including intellectual concerns with postmodernism; trends in the arts; the changing status of women; the power of the electronic media; multiculturalism; developments in psychology, science, and technology; and the dramatic political, economic, and social transformations of our age.

About the Author

Robert Paul Weiner has served as Coordinator of Liberal Studies at St. Mary's College of California, and Chair of Liberal Arts at John F. Kennedy University. He is currently a writer, teacher, and consultant on multiculturalism and creativity.