Creativity from constraints: What con we learn from motherwell? from modran? from klee?

Journal of Creative Behavior

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 223-236

  Stokes, Patricia D ^a  

^a Program on US Russia Relations at Columbia s Harriman Institute   (United States)

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EID: 62149100719     PISSN: 00220175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2162-6057.2008.tb01297.x     Document Type: Article

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