Clive Thompson uses The Smaller Picture to argue that collective aesthetic creation can suppress the most idiosyncratic parts of individual vision.

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 4: KEYSTROKES AND BRUSHSTROKES A Pint Is All You Need

"Clive Thompson uses The Smaller Picture to argue that collective aesthetic creation can suppress the most idiosyncratic parts of individual vision."

Thompson discusses the Kevan Davis experiment on pp. 159-160 and uses it to illustrate the limits of collective aesthetic decision-making, which is his argument rather than a universal law of creativity.

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Source title Smarter Than You Think

Source authors Clive Thompson

Source year 2013

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