Dear Sturt
g'day mate
here is a short list of refernces from a colleague of mine (Phil McIntyre) who is just about to complete his PhD in the area of creativity. A much larger list could be made available if people are interested.
REFERENCES
Sharon Bailin Achieving Extraordinary Ends : An Essay on Creativity, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1988.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention, Harper Collins, New York, 1996.
Howard Gardner Creating Minds: An anatomy of creativity seen through the lives of Freud, Einstein,Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham and Gandhi, Basic Books, New York, 1993.
Deborah J. Haynes The Vocation of the Artist, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997.
M. Howe Genius Explained, Cambridge University press, London, 1999.
Robert Sternberg (ed) The Nature of Creativity: Contemporary Psychological Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1988.
Robert Sternberg (ed) Handbook of Creativity, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 1999.
Jack Stillinger Multiple Authorship and the Myth of Solitary Genius, Oxford University Press, 1991.
R. Weisberg Creativity: Beyond the Myth of Genius, W.H. Freeman and Co., New York, 1993.
Janet Wolff The Social Production of Art, 2nd ed., MacMillan, London, 1993.
Vera L. Zolberg Constructing a Sociology of the Arts Cambridge Uni Press, Cambridge, 1990.
This is not however a comprehensive or definitive list. There are also many books, serials and journals (see in particular The Creativity Research Journal) available that contain valuable information for your research.
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