Art, Mind, and Brain: A Cognitive Approach to Creativity

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• Title Page iii
• CONTENTS vii
• PREFACE xi
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii
• PART I - Masters 1
• Introduction - Structures and Symbols 3
• 1 - Jean Piaget: Psychologist, Educator, and Genetic Epistemologist 6
• 2 - Encounter Royaument: The Debate Between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky 16
• 3 - Claude Lévi-Strauss: Toward the Structures of Art 27
• 4 - Ernst Cassirer and the Symbolic Appraoch to Cognition 40
• 5 - Philosophy in a NW Key Revisited: An Appreciation of Susanne Langer 48
• 6 - Nelson Goodman: The Symbols of Art 55
• 7 - Ernst Gombrich: Why Art has a History 65
• PART II - Artistic Development in Children 81
• 8 - Exploring the Mystery of Artistic Creativity 86
• 9 - The Child as Artist 91

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