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Zusatztext Review from previous edition brimming with interesting ideas and fascinating examples, presented in a clear, lively, and engaging fashion. Boden's book is essential reading for anyone interested in creativity in art or in computer art, and it deserves to be widely read and admired. Informationen zum Autor Margaret A. Boden is Research Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Sussex. She is a Fellow (and past Vice-President) of the British Academy, and of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (and its British and European equivalents), and a member of the Academia Europaea. In 2002 she was awarded an OBE for services to Cognitive Science, and she holds a Cambridge ScD as well as honorary doctorates from Bristol, Sussex, and the Open University. Educated at Cambridge and Harvard, her earlier degrees were in medical sciences, philosophy, and psychology. Klappentext Margaret Boden presents a series of essays in which she explores the nature of creativity in a wide range of art forms. Creativity is the generation of novel, surprising, and valuable ideas. Boden identifies three forms of creativity (combinational, exploratory, and transformational) each eliciting a different form of surprise. Zusammenfassung Margaret Boden presents a series of essays in which she explores the nature of creativity in a wide range of art forms. Creativity is the generation of novel, surprising, and valuable ideas. Boden identifies three forms of creativity (combinational, exploratory, and transformational) each eliciting a different form of surprise. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments 1: Introduction 2: Creativity in a Nutshell 3: Are Autodidacts Creative? 4: Crafts, Perception, and the Possibilities of the Body 5: Creativity and Conceptual Art 6: Personal Signatures in Art 7: What is Generative Art? 8: Agents and Creativity 9: Autonomy, Integrity, and Computer Art 10: Authenticity and Computer Art 11: Aesthetics and Interactive Art 12: Is Metabolism Necessary? Index ...
