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Publisher
J.P. Tarcher/Putnam
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
288 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Just over a decade ago, Julia Cameron published a ground-breaking work that offered an original and astoundingly effective twelve-week course in creative discovery. With nearly two million copies sold, The Artist's Way is now a classic, cherished by the aspiring and working artists who have experienced its rich benefits. Walking in This World picks up where The Artist's Way left off, to present readers with a second course -- Part Two in an amazing...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
245 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
An exploration of art as a great passion of life considers what can be learned through pictures, sculpture, and the artists who create them, in a personal exploration that advocates awareness of art and the creative spirit within one's own life.
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Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xix, 347 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
This book presents a comprehensive approach to the much-misunderstood life of the artist. Creativity for Life offers practical ideas as well as exercises and inspiration to nurture growth as an artist and as a person, exploring such subjects as: * Establishing your creativity practice * Obscurity and stardom * Blocks * The artists personality * Moods and madness * Artists in love * Craft * The rewards and perils of isolation * Social interactions...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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Many famed music producers, however brilliant, become known for a particular sound which has its day and then ages out. Rick Rubin, on the other hand, is most famous for something else: for creating a strong safe space where artists of wildly different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. To surprise themselves, and thus the world. Rubin's true art is for helping people get out of their own way and commune...
8) Devotion
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 18 cm.
Description
"Patti Smith first presents an original and beautifully crafted tale of obsession?a young skater who lives for her art, a possessive collector who ruthlessly seeks his prize, a relationship forged of need both craven and exalted. She then takes us on a second journey, exploring the sources of her story. We travel through the South of France to Camus?s house, and visit the garden of the great publisher Gallimard where the ghosts of Mishima, Nabokov,...
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Publisher
Hachette Go, an imprint of Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
153 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Description
"Based on her popular workshop, artist, designer and author Laurie Rosenwald reveals her unique approach to coming up with ideas through unconventional creativity hacks and prompts"--
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Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 196 pages , 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"In Making Marks, you'll learn that every single line, smudge, or spot you make contains visual imagery with the power to heal the past, develop your sense of empathy, and reveal solutions and answers you never realized before. You don't need to have any specific experience or skills to benefit from this book; through simple steps and interactive exercises, people of all ages and artistic abilities can gain insight and learn to reconnect with their...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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Be bold. Be rebellious. Choose art. It matters. Neil Gaiman once said that 'the world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before'. This little book is the embodiment of that vision. Drawn together from speeches, poems and creative manifestos, Art Matters explores how reading, imagining and creating can change the world, and will be inspirational to young and old.
Author
Series
The Canons volume 23
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xxxix, 435 pages ; 21 cm
Description
A modern classic cherished by many of the greatest artists of our time, The Gift is a brilliant, life-changing defense of the value of creative labor. Drawing on examples from folklore and literature, history and tribal customs, economics and modern copyright law, Lewis Hyde demonstrates how our society--governed by the marketplace--is poorly equipped to determine the worth of artists' work. He shows us that another way is possible: the alternative...
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"All artists have doubts and anxieties. What are yours? Managing procrastination, anxiety, and creative blocks? Knowing how to trust your work? Dealing with other people? Balancing the need to push through to the end of a work while keeping your health and sanity? Handling rejection... and your own success? Dale Trumbore has faced each of these issues as a composer who achieved her own definition of success by age 30. Staying Composed: Overcoming...
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"The Vintage Years... is the life-stage beginning around age sixty, when the external demands in life often slow enough to make more time and space for new learning and personal exploration. Francine Toder explains why it is the perfect time-frame to express yourself through the visual arts, writing or music"--Book jacket.
Author
Publisher
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
233 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Outlines a lifestyle plan that is intrinsically creative, explaining how to tap one's artistic instincts in order to reach specific goals, in an anecdotal reference that also reveals how to draw strength and inspiration from quiet moments.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch-- and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories."--From publisher description.
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Distributed in the U.S. by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (290 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Reveals how the first big artistic discoveries were made and how they have cascaded down the centuries to define the look of the present day. Encompassing everything from cave paints to ceramics and pyramids to palaces, this film explores the global trend for unrealistic depictions of the human body; the secret powers of the feature film; how politicians manage to manipulate people so easily; visions of the afterlife; and why we use imagery at all....
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