Picasso's Brain: The basis of creative genius

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Where does creativity come from Why are some people more creative than others

Eminent neuropsychologist Christine Temple navigates a wide range of factors from the hard science (visual memory, spatial ability, brain functions) to the environmental (the 'mad genius' myth, and Gladwell's 10,000 hours of practice) in her study of what contributes to creativity.

Using Pablo Picasso as her model of a creative genius, she weighs up each theory as it applies to Picasso and shows how his own creativity came from a combination of many factors.

In this book, she looks at Picasso's playful mindset and passionate relationships, investigates the possibility that genius is genetic and can be inherited in families, considers whether creative genii perceive the world in a different way, and determines whether single-mindedness and focus play a part. This is the first book to look at a multitude of traits in creativity, and nail down the key factors that matter (and also which ones don't) to provide an overall picture of this fascinating area, linking the science to the personal.

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Christine Temple is an eminent neuroscientist, who has worked at Oxford, London and recently been the Pro Vice-Chancellor of Essex University. Now 51, she was the youngest Professor of Psychology in the UK at 33. She has experience for this book both from her psychological research and her own interest in art and Picasso - she's been collecting art and Picasso prints herself for years. She has written 2 previous books but both were academic in focus.