Art, Mind, And Brain

By: Howard E. Gardner

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Paperback | 21 July 1984 | Edition Number 1

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In a provocative discussion of the sources of human creativity, Gardner explores all aspects of the subject, from the young child's ability to learn a new song through Mozart's conceiving a complete symphony.

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Non-Fiction Arts & Entertainment History of Art & Design Styles Psychology Cognition & Cognitive Psychology Miscellaneous Items Philosophy Medicine Other Branches of Medicine Clinical Psychology Psychotherapy

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Masters	p. 1
Introduction: Structures and Symbols	p. 3
Jean Piaget: Psychologist, Educator, and Genetic Epistemologist	p. 6
Encounter Royaument: The Debate Between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky	p. 16
Claude Lévi-Strauss: Toward the Structures of Art	p. 27
Ernst Cassirer and the Symbolic Appraoch to Cognition	p. 40
Philosophy in a NW Key Revisited: An Appreciation of Susanne Langer	p. 48
Nelson Goodman: The Symbols of Art	p. 55
Ernst Gombrich: Why Art has a History	p. 65
Artistic Development in Children	p. 81
Exploring the Mystery of Artistic Creativity	p. 86
The Child as Artist	p. 91
Children's Conception (and Misconceptions) of the Arts	p. 103
Max and Molly: Individual Differences in Early Artistic Symbolization with Dennie Wolf and Ann Smith	p. 110
The Golden Age Drawing	p. 128
In Search of the UR-Song	p. 144
The Child is Father to the Metaphor: With Ellen Winner	p. 158
The Birth of Literary Imagination	p. 168
Nadia's Challenge	p. 184
The Prodigies' Progress	p. 192
On Education and Media: The Transmission of Knowledge	p. 203
Unfolding or Teaching: On the Optimal Training of Artistic Skills	p. 208
Illuminating Comparisons: Looking at Fakes and Forgeries	p. 218
Toys with Minds of Their Own	p. 227
Are Television's Effects Due to Television?	p. 234
Cracking the Codes of Television: The Child as Anthropologist with Leona Jaglom	p. 241
Television's Effects on Children: Does it Stimulate or Stultify?	p. 252
Dictate by Necessity, or Everyman His Own Boswell	p. 257
The Breakdown of the Minds	p. 263
Brain Damage: A Window on the Mind	p. 269
What we Know (and do not Know) About the Two Halves of the Brain	p. 278
The Loss of Language	p. 286
The Forgotten Lesson of Monsieur C	p. 298
Missing the Point: Language and the RIght Hemisphere	p. 309
Artistry After Brain Damage	p. 318
The Lives of Alexander Luria	p. 336
The Heights of Creativity	p. 349
Creativity in the Adult Years	p. 352
The Compositions of Mozart's Mind	p. 358
References	p. 369
Name Index	p. 373
Index	p. 376
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