Communication Assignment -Critically Analyze and Discuss the Enduring Influence and Contradictions of Romantic Aesthetics in Creativity, Singapore

Keith Sawyer asserts that:

“A scientific explanation of creativity requires us to look critically at our own cultural assumptions about how creativity works, and scientific studies of creativity fail to support our most cherished beliefs about creativity” (Sawyer, 2006, p. 33).

Yet, as noted by Heath and Boreham:

“Many basic tenets of Romantic aesthetics have proved extremely durable” (2005, p. 172).

Despite the persistence of Romantic ideals, there are:

“Internal contradictions in the foundations of Romantic thinking, but the fact that we are still raising these revisionist objections shows how pervasive the Romantic influence has been” (ibid).

Discuss.