File 5 - "The Creative Process in Art and Science"

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"The Creative Process in Art and Science"

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  • March 1952-22 February 1963 (Creation)

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Bronowski, Jacob (1908-1974), scientist
(1908 - 1974)

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Comprises handwritten notes by Bronowski and source material [used in preparation for Bronowski's lectures on 'The Imaginative Mind in Art' and 'The Imaginative Mind in Science' given for the Frank Gerstein Lectures on 'Imagination and the University' at York University in Toronto, 1963].

Source material comprises previous work by Bronowski in the same subject area as well as articles by other authors: a press cutting of 'Creativity, the facts behind the fad' by E J Tangerman ('Product Engineering', 24 Aug 1959); a press cutting of 'The Haunted Universe' by J W N Watkins (The Listener, 21 Nov 1957); a transcript of 'The Creative Mind' radio programme that Bronowski spoke on (WGBH-FM, Massachusetts, 1958); a reprint of 'A Moral for an Age of Plenty' by Bronowski (from The Saturday Evening Post, 1960); an annotated typescript of 'Science and Values' by Bronowski (contribution to a recorded debate in the '51 Society', Manchester, Mar 1952); and a press cutting of 'The Creative Process' (from Scientific American, Sep 1958, vol. 199, no. 3).

Also includes a letter from Horizon journal on the lectures that Bronowski was preparing to give in Canada.

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      Box 56:12

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