Annotated Bibliography by Wendy Jane Bantam

Hans Hofman Problem: "Seeing" to simplify what is essential to the senses.
Catalogue of the Hans Hofman Exhibition, Kootz Gallery, New York, 1955. What is the creative mind to Hans Hofman?
Readings in American Art 1900-1975, edited by Barbara Rose Communication through painting.
IT IS Magazine, Winter-Spring 1959. Hans Hofman's artist's statement from 1959.
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Mark Rothko Problem: to find universally meaningful subject matter.
On the Sublime: Mark Rothko, Yves Klein, James Turrell. Guggenheim Museum, Berlin/ Berlin, DE
(http:// www.absolutearts.com/artnews/2001/07/07/28819.html) Sublime and beautiful~reduced to the simplest forms.
The following four articles are excerpts in which Rothko discusses his drive and problem solving. They appear in:
Readings in American Art 1900-1975, edited by Barbara Rose.
Possibilities, NO. 1 (Winter, 1947-48)
Interiors, May 1951.
David Porter Gallery, Washington, d.C., 1945
Tiger's Eye, No. 9 (October, 1949)
Diane Walkman, Mark Rothko 1903-1970: A Retrospective. Exhibition catalogue (New York: Harry N. Abrams, with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1978 ), 39. Rothko looks inward to find meaningful portrayal of spiritual form.
Donald B. Doe, "Mark Rothko, " In the American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1988), 158. Religious without religious symbolism.
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Jonathan Borofsky Problem: to find a way to be universally connected.
Carnegie Mellon Magazine/ Jonathan Borofsky Nobody Knows His Name, Everybody Has His Number, By Ann Curran
(http://www.cmu.edu/magazine/02spring/borofsky/html.) Problem Borofsky is driven to solve: using sound and repetition to be connected to the "Whole". The "Whole" being nature.
Jonathan Borofsky by Nancy Kay Turner (The Remba Gallery, West Hollywood) Borofsky discusses drive to feel connected to the "Whole."
(http://artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles 1999/Articles 1199/JBorofskyA.html)
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Lucian Freud Problem: Quest for truth using the naked body.
The Observer (Guardian Unlimited), Peter Conrad. Sunday, June 9, 2002.
(http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4429787-102280,00.html)Lucian Freud discusses reason behind work.
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These are all sources of studies done on the creative mind, creative process, and problem solving. Some titles are self-explanatory, the other titles are summarized in italics.
Vasari, G. [1550] 1959. Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors, and architects. New York: The Modern Library.
Jung, C.G. 1946. The Fight with the Shadow. Listener, Nov. 7. Deals with darker nature of humanity.
Johnson-Laird, D.N. 1988. Freedom and restraint on creativity. In The Nature of Creativity, edited by R. Sternberg. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp 202-219 Choices made in problem-solving.
Perkins, D.N. The Mind's Best Work, Cambridge, Mass,: Harvard University Press. Creativity is not the result of magical creative genius.
Freeman, M. 1993 Finding the Muse: a sociopsychological inquiry into the conditions of artistic creativity. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Salk, J. 1983. Anatomy of Reality: Merging Intuition and Reason. New york: Columbia University Press.
Gribbin, J.,and M, Rees. 1989 Cosmic coincidences: Dark matter, mankind, and anthropic cosmology. New York, Bantam.
Roheim, G. 1945. The eternal ones of the dream: A psychoanalytic interpretation of Australian myth and ritual. New York: International Universities Press.
Rothenberg, A. 1979. The emerging goddess: The creative process in art, science, and other fields. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Rob Saunders and John S. Gero. Artifical Creativity: Emergent Notions of Creativity in Artificial Societies of Curious Agents. The Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition. The University of Sydney NSW 2006, Australia.
(http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/~rob/study/publications/second_iteration/SaundersGero2001)
Koestler, Arthur. The Act of Creation. Assesses the creative act regresses to an earlier primitive state.
Bergson, Henri. The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics (1946). Intuition as "thinking in duration" showing flow of reality. Explains how intuition and intellect are combined in the mind to produce a dynamic knowledge of reality.
Martindale, Colin. The Clockwork Muse. 1990 Presents thought expirament called "Law of Novelty". Affects development of creative syles.
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Society, Culture, Person: A Systems View of Creativity. How society, culture, and history generates ideas for the individual.
Holton, Gerald. Einstein, History, and other Passions:The Rebellion Against Science at the End of the 20th Century. January 1996. Imagination and passion and intuition involved in scientific research.