December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
3h 39m
English
Creativity is the generation of new ideas, insights, and previously unimagined images.
• Creativity is a surprisingly recent idea. Greek philosophy regarded the visual arts as largely imitative. It wasn’t until the Renaissance that creation was recognized as a characteristic of human beings and not until the Romantic era that any serious thinking was applied to the function of the imagination.
• The first good attempt at analyzing creativity only appeared in 1926, when Graham Wallas (1858–1932) proposed the following model:
1. Preparation: An initial assessment of a problem
2. Incubation: A waiting period while the mind absorbs the task
3. Intimation: A sense that there is a solution
4. Illumination: A creative insight occurs ...