Historical Thread of Creativity Across Cultures by K. Bailey

By kimb95
  • Jul 14, 1000

    Time:From 1500BC to 347BC

    The idea of creation was a type of discovery. Even Plato thought nothing could be new and art just copied things that already exhisted
  • Period: Jul 14, 1000 to

    Kaufman, J., & Sternberg, R. (2010). The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 1

  • Period: Jul 14, 1000 to

    Creativity

  • Jul 14, 1100

    Middle ages

    Any special talents or unusual abilities in men were thought to be a spirit using the male as a conduit, not creativity.
  • Jul 14, 1300

    Renaissance

    The abilities were being recognized as the persons own skills, not an outside spirit.
  • Jul 14, 1393

    Using the word Create

    Chaucer first used the word create, but is was still not a focus of thought.
  • Jul 14, 1473

    1473-1727

    Corpernicus (1471-1543), Galileo (1564-1642) and Newton (1642-1727) brought philosophical discussions and scientific discovery.
  • The word Research

    The word Research appreared. Its use was know for scientific inquiry. The word Researcher started in 1615.
  • Scientific Reserach Institutionalized

  • Society's Transactions

    A publication that required publishing research results. The forced publications caused little originality due to requirements set by the society.
  • Enlightenment

    Continental Europe had creative poets and artists.
  • Discovery through Science

    Science discovery and models became instruments for looking at the physical world. This time was believed to be the start of modern Western civilization
  • Questioned Freedom of Thought

    European artists, writers and philosiphers questions the limits to the freedom of thought. Creativity is still not understood.
  • The Idea of Creativity

    The idea of creativity was seperated from the ideas of genius, originality, talent, and formal education. But the concept of creativity did not exist.
  • Romanticism influenced Creativity

    Artist work was emotional.
  • Darwin

    Darwin's ideas of natural selection brought characteristics of creativity to light with adaptations and diversity.
  • Galton

    Galton's pychological research indirectly researched creativity.
  • William James

    Formulated the idea of divergent thinking.
  • Cox

    Findings on her creativity research with children showed: Persitent effort, strong self-efficacy and great character shows creativity in not one type of behavior; making creativity complex.
  • Creativity a hot new topic

    In the 1950's to 1960's creative personalities was a new topic