Uncommon Genius: Amazon.de: Denise Shekerjian: Englische Bücher

Taschenbuch: 272 Seiten
Verlag: Penguin (Non-Classics); Auflage: Reissue (1. Februar 1991)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0140109862
ISBN-13: 978-0140109863
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 19,8 x 12,8 x 1,3 cm

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Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 316.085 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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At the age of 38, John D. MacArthur, a destitute high-school dropout, borrowed $2,500 to buy the Bankers Life & Casualty Company of Chicago; eight years later he'd made a million dollars. At the time of his death in 1978 he was the second-richest man in America and "notoriously tightfisted." But he left most of his two-and-a-half-billion-dollar estate in the form of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, with only these instructions to his board of trustees: "I figured out how to make the money, you boys figure out how to spend it." Thus the MacArthur Prize, also known as the "genius grant," was born. The award cannot be applied for, and it is not limited to any particular field of interest. Its purpose "is to promote those leaps of creative thinking that may occur when gifted people are left to their own devices." For Uncommon Genius, Shekerjian interviewed forty MacArthur Prize winners--John Sayles, Peter Sellars, Ellen Stewart, and Derek Walcott among them--in an attempt to discover "how great ideas are born." While much of what she learns about the creative impulse is not exactly groundbreaking--it involves risk-taking, openness, concentration, resiliency, and a great love of the work--spending time with the creators she has chosen to include is fascinating. They bring these broad concepts to life by inviting us into their studios, offices, labs, even dorm rooms (the youngest interviewee, Mayan epigraphist David Stuart, was a Princeton student at the time) and discussing their own creative processes. There is much to be gleaned here, not only about how creativity applies itself to various fields (community action, political science, writing, art history, woodworking, and even being a clown), but about how to nurture your own "creative genius." --Jane Steinberg

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This is a well-written, breezy, at times eloquent jaunt through the subject of creativity with 40 MacArthur award winners, including psychiatrist Robert Coles, art historian Henry Kraus, and conservationist Patrick Noonan. Sherkerjian, a former attorney and author of Competent Council , provides glimpses of the creative process in lively prose that both helps explain the work of the Fellows and illuminates for the rest of us the process-oriented, risky, unpredictable, and often frustrating conditions under which creative strides are made. For adult and young adult readers, something creative and hopeful.
-Terry McMaster, Utica Coll. of Syracuse Univ. Lib., N.Y.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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Surprisingly easy read 16. M�rz 2000

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I thought it would be heavy theoretical-type stuff but it wasn't. Very down-to-earth practical information about interesting people. I found myself underlining sentences/phrases for re-reading. The wide spectrum of occupations/interests of the people featured made me realize I was stifling my own creative thoughts by assuming the creative people would be primarily artists. The book should make you start thinking "outside the box" in all aspects of your life. An excellent book for anyone, artist or otherwise.

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A BRILLIANT LOOK AT BRILLIANT PEOPLE 9. M�rz 2000

Von Andy Todes

Well, dear reader. You are in for a real treat if you choose to read this book. I have read zillions of books on creativity, but NOTHING comes close to Shekerjian's gem. I could go on and on about how wonderful it is, but you have better things to do - e.g. buying this book for example. Read it. Delight in it. And pass it on. You will not be disappointed.

learn about the creative process 9. November 1998

Being creative can take many shapes and forms. Find what works for you. This book offers many strategies that work have worked for accomplished people. Certain under-lying principals commonly used by creative people are illuminated. i enjoyed the book and recommended it to my teenage child. regards to all....