What is it about human beings that makes us creative, able to imagine and enact new possibilities for life and new solutions to problems in a way that no other animal can? The authors explore this question in essays and studies from a range of specializations and backgrounds. Editor(s): Putova, Barbora; Soukup, Vaclav. Num Pages: 350 pages, 160 colour plates. BIC Classification: JMR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 269 x 220 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1148. . 2015. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: The Genesis of Creativity and the Origin of the Human Mind
Publisher: Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic
Publication Date: 2015
Language: English
ISBN 10: 8024626772
ISBN 13: 9788024626772
Binding: Hardcover
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What is it about human beings that makes us creative, able to imagine and enact new possibilities for life and new solutions to problems in a way that no other animal can? The authors included in The Genesis of Creativity and the Origin of the Human Mind explore this question, in essays and studies from a range of specializations and backgrounds. Experts on culture, art, and evolution come together to describe, analyse, and interpret the origins of artistic creativity and the anatomical and neurological structures that contribute to it. Essays focus on the origins of art in the Upper Palaeolithic as well as on manifestations of artistic creativity in pre-literary societies and tribal cultures that have been preserved to the present day. The interdisciplinary approach to the topic accentuates the wide array of possible methodologies and interpretations of artistic manifestations under particular historic and cultural contexts.

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Barbora Putov� is a Czech anthropologist and art historian lecturing at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. She is the author of F�licien Rops: Enfant Terrible of Decadence and coauthor of Prehistoric Art: Evolution of Man and Culture.

V�clav Soukup is a Czech anthropologist working at the the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. He is the author of Anthropology: Theory of Man and Culture and History of Anthropology.

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