Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Individual Artists - Essays

International voices from across the globe come together in Art Therapy and the Creative Process to share their perspectives on art, the artist's process, and how art has been therapeutic for them.
In the first section, the three primary contributors--Alfredo Zotti, Samuel Mann, and Cynthia Pearson--create a triple commentary on a piece of art. Zotti paints a picture, Mann analyzes it, and Pearson writes a poem to complement it. In later sections, various artists share why they write, paint, play music, or take photographs, including what their individual mediums mean to...

Curated by U.S. Goodwill Cultural Ambassador Ronald Rand, this extensive collection of his rare interviews captures the essence of artistic life -- actors, artists, dancers, directors, musicians, composers, mime artists, playwrights, and writers share insight on the importance of the arts for humankind. Featuring greats such as Edward Albee, Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Ellen Burstyn, Ruby Dee, Katherine Dunham, Eve Ensler, Al Hirschfeld, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Chaka Khan, Robert Lepage, Christopher Plummer, Tony Randall, Roy Scheider, Elie Wiesel and more, with over 150 full-color...

Table of Contents

Thinking: Dwelling in Possibility; Life Challenges; One of God's Names is Murphy

On Yonah: The Monument in our Midst; Spring on Yonah; Coming to Terms; New Beginnings

Life-giving Waters: River of Ice; A Sight for Thirsty Eyes; Observations of a Night Intruder; Gourdzilla the Sea Serpent

Wake-up Calls: Looking for Some Real Magic; Small Town Girl Tries to Leap into Fame; Window Looks out on Another World; The Times They Were a'Changin'

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"As for you, my dear Balthus, you surely know full well the love that connects us. Yours with all my heart, Rilke."

Never before translated into English, Rainer Maria Rilke's fascinating Letters to a Young Painter, written between 1920 and 1926 toward the end of his life, is a surprising companion to his infamous Letters to a Young Poet, earlier correspondence from 1902 to 1908.

While the latter has become a global phenomenon, with millions of copies sold in many different languages, the present volume has been largely...

"Jonas Mekas' diaries have an aching honesty, puckish humor and quiet nobility of character. Many readers curious about the early years of this seminal avant-garde filmmaker will discover here a much more universal story: that of the emigrant who can never go back, and whose solitariness in the New World is emblematic of the human condition." -Phillip Lopate

"I was enormously moved by it." -Allen Ginsberg

Legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas actually came to filmmaking relatively late in life, and his path to New York was a difficult one. In 1944, Mekas and his younger...

One of the first artists to sell websites as art objects, New York-based Dutch-Brazilian artist Rafael Rozendaal (born 1980) has created a body of work spanning mediums from the digital to the physical.

But the digital is the starting point for all of Rozendaal's art. Everything, Always, Everywhere reflects on the change that his work has undergone in recent years, looking at both his own evolution as an artist and the technological progress that has influenced digital art in general. Richly illustrated, the book consists of several related parts. Three...

Harry Bertoia, Sculptor is devoted to the life and work of a twentieth-century Italian-born American artist whose important commissions are located in twenty-five American cities from New York to Seattle and from Minneapolis to Miami. It traces the development of Bertoia's versatile career from his youth in Detroit, beginning with drawings, paintings, and monoprints, then jewelry and furniture designs, to his abstract sculptures in metals, many of architectural proportions.

The book includes a biography of the man and detailed descriptions of his methods of working. Many...