Creative Cognition and the Cultural Panorama of Twentieth-Century Spain [recurso electrónico

This multidisciplinary study focuses on the creative state as the nucleus of the work of numerous poets, artists, and philosophers from twentieth-century Spain. Beginning with cognitive science, Gala explores the mental processes and structures that underline creative thinking, for poets like José María Hinojosa, Clara Janés, and Jorge Guillén. Poets and artists create works that astound and move us, but what is the nature of their creative process? How do thought and reality, the physical and the psychological, interact in their work? How do they use body and mind, emotions and cognition, the objective and the subjective, to reconcile the self and the world, art and reality? Creative Cognition and the Cultural Panorama of Twentieth Century-Spain is a multidisciplinary study of poets, plastic artists, and philosophers mainly from twentieth-century Spain. It focuses on the creative state as the nucleus of the artist's work as it brings forth cognitive experiences that are out of the ordinary realm of knowledge about the self, art, and the world. Not a strictly neurobiological approach, it takes cognitive science as a point of departure to explore the mental processes and structures that underline creative thinking Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-17 Creative Convulsion: José María Hinojosa and La Flor de Californía....Pages 19-41 Creative Dialectics: José Moreno Villa and Jacinta la pelirroja....Pages 43-68 Creative Measurements: Plastic-Dynamic Development in Maruja Mallo’s Naturalezas vivas....Pages 69-96 Creative Beatitude: Jorge Guillén and Baruch Spinoza....Pages 97-120 Creative Quietude. A Transdisciplinary Encounter: Clara Janés, Eduardo Chillida, and María Zambrano....Pages 121-164 Creative Artifacts: Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Post-Poetry Proposal (Sharing Thoughts with Wittgenstein)....Pages 165-210 Closing Remarks....Pages 211-216 Back Matter....Pages 217-254 This multidisciplinary study focuses on the creative state as the nucleus of the work of numerous poets, artists, and philosophers from twentieth-century Spain. Beginning with cognitive science, Gala explores the mental processes and structures that underline creative thinking, for poets like Jose Maria Hinojosa, Clara Janes, and Jorge Guillen.