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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity is a 1992 self-help book by American author Julia Cameron.The book was written to help people with artistic creative recovery, which teaches techniques and exercises to assist people in gaining self-confidence in harnessing their creative talents and skills.
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative is a book on coming up with creative ideas written by Austin Kleon and published in 2012 from Workman Publishing. The book has since then become a New York Times Bestseller .
Comprehensive biographical resource including British and Irish artists up to the year 1900 or so. Cyclopedia of painters and paintings, by J. D. Champlin & C. C. Perkins (New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1913). Illustrated with b/w drawings of art, artists and their monograms: Volume 1 (Aagaard to Dyer) Volume 2 (Eakins to Kyhn) Volume 3 (Laar to ...
Artists' books are made for a variety of reasons. An artist book is generally interactive, portable, movable and easily shared. Some artists books challenge the conventional book format and become sculptural objects. Artists' books may be created in order to make art accessible to people outside of the formal contexts of galleries or museums. [4]
Category includes books having substantial discussion of creativity, including the definition and nature of creativity, how to foster or stifle creativity, the effects of creativity on science and the arts, etc. Category does not include individuals considered to be creative, though in some cases books about such individuals may be included.
The Act of Creation is divided into two books. In the first book, Koestler proposes a global theory of creative activity encompassing humour, scientific inquiry, and art. Koestler's fundamental idea is that any creative act is a bisociation (not mere association) of two (or more) apparently incompatible frames of thought. [1]
Paul Klee Notebooks is a two-volume work by the Swiss-born artist Paul Klee that collects his lectures at the Bauhaus schools in 1920s Germany and his other main essays on modern art. These works are considered so important for understanding modern art that they are compared to the importance that Leonardo's A Treatise on Painting had for ...
As an independent topic of study, creativity received little attention until the 19th century. [17] Psychologist Mark Runco and Robert Albert argue that creativity as the subject of proper study began seriously to emerge in the late 19th century with the increased interest in individual differences inspired by the arrival of Darwinism.