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Creative Mind and Method Series

Radio essays from the WGBH Radio archives by leading thinkers in the 20th Century on the nature of creativeness in American arts, sciences, and professions.

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Creative Mind: Man the Creator Louis Finkelstein August 1, 1957 00:29:06 Lyman Bryson talks with artist Louis Finkelstein; minister, writer, and political activist Reinhold Niebuhr; and philosopher Milton Nahm about the special form of expression that gives a creative mind power over our imagination.	Creative Mind: The Architect as Creator Frank Lloyd Wright February 19, 1958 00:29:32 Lyman Bryson talks with architect Frank Lloyd Wright about his ideas on education, which he thinks should rely on nature, and about the relation between restraint and freedom.
Creative Mind: The Choreographer as Creator Agnes de Mille October 8, 1958 00:30:11 Lyman Bryson discusses with choreographer Agnes de Mille about the two types of creative artists that collaborate to perform a dance, the dancer and the choreographer.	Creative Mind: The Theoretical Scientist as Creator Harlow Shapley January 20, 1958 00:29:43 Lyman Bryson speculates with astronomer and philosopher Harlow Shapley on what the proper task of the scientist-creator is in relation to the artist-creator.
Creative Mind: The Musician as Creator Aaron Copland August 11, 1958 00:29:30 Lyman Bryson discusses with composer Aaron Copland how music can be both the least representational art and the one that is the most cooperative with other arts.	Creative Mind: The Poet as Creator Allen Tate February 6, 1957 00:29:26 Lyman Bryson discusses with writer Allen Tate what generates a poem in the mind of the poet, and how one can be at once a poet, a critic, and a teacher.
Creative Mind: The Painter as Creator Ben Shahn March 19, 1956 00:33:28 Lyman Bryson discusses with social realist painter Ben Shahn the dedication to hard work, the discipline, and the careful learning of technical skills that must accompany artistic inspiration.	Creative Mind: The Writer as Creator Robert Penn Warren January 30, 1952 00:31:42 Lyman Bryson discusses with poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren how an artist sets out to find truth in his imagination.