Overview
- Provides an impressive overview of 40 years of research on art and creativity
- Reflects a very personal journey and illustrates the evolution of a scientist
- Clearly demarcates one specific area in Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s broad field of interest
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Collected Works
- Complexity and Creativity
- Creativity and Arts
- Creativity and Intelligence
- Creativity as a Social Construction
- Development of Creativity
- Educational Psychology
- Flow and Developmental Issues
- Influence of the Social Context
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Personality of the Artist
- Positive Psychology
- Problem Solving versus Problem Finding
- Quality of Life Research
- Research on IQ
- Study with Artists
- Systems Model of Creativity
About this book
This first volume of the Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi represents his work on Art and Creativity. Starting with his seminal 1964 study on creativity up to his 2010 publication in Newsweek, the volume spans over four decades of research and writing and clearly shows Csikszentmihalyi’s own development as an academic, psychologist, researcher and person. Unconventional and unorthodox in his approach, Csikszentmihalyi chose the topic of creativity as a field of study believing it would help him be a better psychologist and advance his understanding of how to live a better life.
The chapters in this volume trace the history of the study of creativity back to the days of Guilford and research on IQ and Jacob Getzels’ work on creativity and intelligence. Firmly grounded in that history, yet extending it in new directions, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi started his life-long study on artistic creativity. His first extensive study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago enabled him to observe, test and interview fine art students drawing in a studio. The study formed the very basis of all his work on the subject and has resulted in several articles, represented in this volume, on such creativity-related concepts as problem solving versus problem finding, the personality of the artist, the influence of the social context, creativity as a social construction, developmental issues and flow. The main contribution to the topic of creativity and also the main concept explored in this volume, is the Systems Model of Creativity. Seven chapters in this volume discuss the development of this conceptual model and theory.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Systems Model of Creativity
Book Subtitle: The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Authors: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9085-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9084-0Published: 06 February 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7858-9Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9085-7Published: 27 January 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 317
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: Positive Psychology, Quality of Life Research, Educational Psychology