Creativity and Beyond

<p><b>Explores how historical artistic and technological developments and cross-cultural exchange have altered our conceptions of creativity.</b></p><p>Creativity and Beyond offers a wide-ranging interdisciplinary tour of cultures past and present to examine the different ways people have conceived of creativity and how the common understanding of creativity is changing in the current flux of global culture. Weiner analyzes the ways in which understanding creativity is tied to broader contemporary patterns including intellectual concerns with postmodernism; trends in the arts; the changing status of women; the power of the electronic media; multiculturalism; developments in psychology science and technology; and the dramatic political economic and social transformations of our age.</p>