Daily rituals : how artists work /
How artists work, how they ritualize their days with the comforting (mundane) details of their lives, including their daily routines, fears, dreams, naps, eating habits and other prescribed, finely calibrated "subtle maneuvers" that help them use time, summon up willpower, exercise self-di...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
[2014]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | How artists work, how they ritualize their days with the comforting (mundane) details of their lives, including their daily routines, fears, dreams, naps, eating habits and other prescribed, finely calibrated "subtle maneuvers" that help them use time, summon up willpower, exercise self-discipline and keep themselves afloat with optimism. Artists considering how they work, in letters, diaries, interviews, beguilingly compiled and edited by Mason Currey. Portraits that inspire, amuse and delight and that reveal the profound fusion of discipline and dissipation through which the artistic temperament is allowed to evolve, recharge and emerge. From Beethoven and Kafka to George Sand, Picasso, Woody Allen and Agatha Christie, from Leo Tolstoy and Henry James to Charles Dickens and John Updike, here are writers, composers, painters, choreographers, playwrights, philosophers, caricaturists, comedians, poets, sculptors and scientists on how they create (and avoid creating) their creations. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780307273604 (hardback) 0307273601 (hardback) |