Art and Creativity
However the creative spirit moves you, whatever form of expression you prefer, here are books to bolster and inspire that.
Ignore Everybody : And 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod
This reincarnation of a piece Hugh MacLeod published years ago on his website entitled "How to Be Creative" is a small book with large type and lots of pictures, but MacLeod squeezes a lot of meaning into this small package, as with his business card drawings.
This reincarnation of a piece Hugh MacLeod published years ago on his website entitled "How to Be Creative" is a small book with large type and lots of pictures, but MacLeod squeezes a lot of meaning into this small package, as with his business card drawings.
The Visionary State:A Journey through California's Spiritual Landscape
The Visionary State weaves text and image into a compelling narrative of religion, architecture, and consciousness in California, from neopaganism to televangelism, UFO cults to austere Zen Buddhism.
The Visionary State weaves text and image into a compelling narrative of religion, architecture, and consciousness in California, from neopaganism to televangelism, UFO cults to austere Zen Buddhism.
Making Art Together
In Making Art Together, Boston-based artist Mark Cooper, with teacher Lisa Sjostrom, advocates for the power of collaborative art-making among school children. Cooper, an internationally recognized artist and a professor of art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Boston College, has led collaborative art projects in classrooms all over the country. In Making Art Together, he pulls this personal experience into a guide for teachers who would benefit from his work.
In Making Art Together, Boston-based artist Mark Cooper, with teacher Lisa Sjostrom, advocates for the power of collaborative art-making among school children. Cooper, an internationally recognized artist and a professor of art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Boston College, has led collaborative art projects in classrooms all over the country. In Making Art Together, he pulls this personal experience into a guide for teachers who would benefit from his work.
A Year in Japan by Kate T. Williamson
Writer and illustrator, Kate T. Williamson takes the reader on a watercolor visual journey down less travelled roads of Japanese culture.
Writer and illustrator, Kate T. Williamson takes the reader on a watercolor visual journey down less travelled roads of Japanese culture.
Street Art: The Spray Files by Louis Bou
Street Art is a look at an art movement that has been around for decades but that is just now beginning to emerge in the mainstream.
Street Art is a look at an art movement that has been around for decades but that is just now beginning to emerge in the mainstream.
de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swann
In de Kooning: An American Master, Stevens and Swann present de Kooning as a profoundly influential American artist who lived a rich and contradictory life.
In de Kooning: An American Master, Stevens and Swann present de Kooning as a profoundly influential American artist who lived a rich and contradictory life.
ReadyMade: How to Make [Almost] Everything: A Do-It-Yourself Primer
Bound in sturdy recycled cardboard with a straight-edged ruler on the front cover, Berger and Hawthornes book itself exemplifies the multi-use ethic it espouses with more than 50 DIY projects within.
Bound in sturdy recycled cardboard with a straight-edged ruler on the front cover, Berger and Hawthornes book itself exemplifies the multi-use ethic it espouses with more than 50 DIY projects within.
Drawing from Life: The Journal as Art by Jennifer New
Drawing from Life: The Journal as Art is an exploration of books of obsessive wonder filled to their borders with drawings, sketches, watercolors, graphs, charts, lists, collages, portraits, and photographs.
Drawing from Life: The Journal as Art is an exploration of books of obsessive wonder filled to their borders with drawings, sketches, watercolors, graphs, charts, lists, collages, portraits, and photographs.
Letters to a Young Actor by Robert Brustein
Founder and director of the Yale Repertory Theater, as well as Harvard's American Repertory Theater, and the drama critic for The New Republic for going on thirty years, Robert Brustein is a living legend in theatrical circles.
Founder and director of the Yale Repertory Theater, as well as Harvard's American Repertory Theater, and the drama critic for The New Republic for going on thirty years, Robert Brustein is a living legend in theatrical circles.
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture today.
Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture today.
You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination
Superbly inventive maps charting voyages of the mind. Over 100 maps from artists, cartographers, and explorers.
Superbly inventive maps charting voyages of the mind. Over 100 maps from artists, cartographers, and explorers.
Dogme Uncut by Jack Stevenson
Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg and the movement that preached a back-to-basics style of filmmaking at odds with mainstream trends.
Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg and the movement that preached a back-to-basics style of filmmaking at odds with mainstream trends.
Tilting: House Launching, Slide Hauling, Potato Trenching...
Eight miles off the Eastern coast of Newfoundland, Canada lies Fogo Island, an inconsequential spot of land 15 miles in length and 9 miles wide.
Eight miles off the Eastern coast of Newfoundland, Canada lies Fogo Island, an inconsequential spot of land 15 miles in length and 9 miles wide.
Schott's Original Miscellany by Ben Schott
How to say "I love you" in 43 different languages, including Zulu and Braille; the taxonomy of cattle-branding; a table of international clothes-washing symbols; the Glasgow coma scale; and a listing of all the James Bond films (thus far).
How to say "I love you" in 43 different languages, including Zulu and Braille; the taxonomy of cattle-branding; a table of international clothes-washing symbols; the Glasgow coma scale; and a listing of all the James Bond films (thus far).