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A 1997 documentary film, Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. [273] The Passion of Ayn Rand, a 1999 television adaptation of the book of the same name, won several awards. [274] Rand's image also appears on a 1999 U.S. postage stamp illustrated by artist Nick Gaetano. [275]
The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers is a book about fiction writing by the philosopher Ayn Rand, published posthumously. Edited by Tore Boeckmann, it was published by Plume in 2000. The book is based on a 1958 series of lectures about fiction writing which Rand gave to a group of student readers and writers in her living room.
The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature is a collection of essays regarding the nature of art by the philosopher Ayn Rand.It was first published in 1969, with a second, revised edition published in 1975.
Objectivism is a philosophical system named and developed by Russian-American writer and philosopher Ayn Rand.She described it as "the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute".
[9] Rand then began Atlas Shrugged to depict the morality of rational self-interest, [10] by exploring the consequences of a strike by intellectuals refusing to supply their inventions, art, business leadership, scientific research, or new ideas to the rest of the world. [11] Rand began the first draft of the novel on September 2, 1946. [12]
The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Russian-American author Ayn Rand, her first major literary success.The novel's protagonist, Howard Roark, is an intransigent young architect who battles against conventional standards and refuses to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation.
Novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand described herself as a romantic realist, [11] and many followers of Objectivism who work in the arts apply this term to themselves. As part of her aesthetics , Rand defined romanticism as a "category of art based on the recognition of the principle that man possesses the faculty of volition", [ 12 ] a realm of ...
"The Art of Fiction", an essay by Henry James, published in his 1888 book Partial Portraits; The Art of Fiction, a 1983 book by John Gardner; The Art of Fiction, a 1992 book by David Lodge; The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers, a 2000 posthumous book by Ayn Rand; The Art of Fiction, a 2006 album by Jeremy Warmsley