Table of Contents

* Introduction to the Paperback Edition * The Relationship of Art to Human Development * The Three Systems in Animals and Infants * From Mode to Symbol * The World of Symbols * Experimental Research On Artistic Development * Achieving Mastery * The Relationship of the Arts to Science, Illness, And Truth

About the Author

Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Among numerous honours, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 1990, he was the first American to receive the University of Louisville's Grawemeyer Award in education. In 2000, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.