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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Currey, Mason
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • W.H. Auden
  • Francis Bacon
  • Simone de Beauvoir
  • Thomas Wolfe
  • Patricia Highsmith
  • Federico Fellini
  • Ingmar Bergman
  • Morton Feldman
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Soren Kierkegaard
  • Voltaire
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Anthony Trollope
  • Jane Austen
  • Frédéric Chopin
  • Gustave Flaubert
  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  • Thomas Mann
  • Karl Marx
  • Sigmund Freud
  • Carl Jung
  • Gustav Mahler
  • Richard Strauss
  • Henri Matisse
  • Joan Miró
  • Gertrude Stein
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Henry Miller
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • William Faulkner
  • Arthur Miller
  • Benjamin Britten
  • Ann Beattie
  • Günter Grass
  • Tom Stoppard
  • Haruki Murakami
  • Toni Morrison
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • Chuck Close
  • Francine Prose
  • John Adams
  • Steve Reich
  • Nicholson Baker
  • B.F. Skinner
  • Margaret Mead
  • Jonathan Edwards
  • Samuel Johnson
  • James Boswell
  • Immanuel Kant
  • William James
  • Henry James
  • Franz Kafka
  • James Joyce
  • Marcel Proust
  • Samuel Beckett
  • Igor Stravinsky
  • Erik Satie
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • T.S. Eliot
  • Dmitry Shostakovich
  • Henry Green
  • Agatha Christie
  • Somerset Maugham
  • Graham Greene
  • Joseph Cornell
  • Sylvia Plath
  • John Cheever
  • Louis Armstrong
  • W.B. Yeats
  • Wallace Stevens
  • Kingsley Amis
  • Martin Amis
  • Umberto Eco
  • Woody Allen
  • David Lynch
  • Maya Angelou
  • George Balanchine
  • Al Hirschfeld
  • Truman Capote
  • Richard Wright
  • H.L. Mencken
  • Philip Larkin
  • Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Louis I. Kahn
  • George Gershwin
  • Joseph Heller
  • James Dickey
  • Nikola Tesla
  • Glenn Gould
  • Louise Bourgeois
  • Chester Himes
  • Flannery O'Connor
  • William Styron
  • Philip Roth
  • P.G. Wodehouse
  • Edith Sitwell
  • Thomas Hobbes
  • John Milton
  • Rene Descartes
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Friedrich Schiller
  • Franz Schubert
  • Franz Liszt
  • George Sand
  • Honoré de Balzac
  • Victor Hugo
  • Charles Dickens
  • Charles Darwin
  • Herman Melville
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Leo Tolstoy
  • Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky
  • Mark Twain
  • Alexander Graham Bell
  • Vincent van Gogh
  • N.C. Wyeth
  • Georgia O'Keeffe
  • Sergey Rachmaninoff
  • Vladimir Nabokov
  • Balthus
  • Le Corbusier
  • Buckminster Fuller
  • Paul Erdos
  • Andy Warhol
  • Edward Abbey
  • V.S. Pritchett
  • Edmund Wilson
  • John Updike
  • Albert Einstein
  • L. Frank Baum
  • Knut Hamsun
  • Willa Cather
  • Ayn Rand
  • George Orwell
  • James T. Farrell
  • Jackson Pollock
  • Carson McCullers
  • Willem de Kooning
  • Jean Stafford
  • Donald Barthelme
  • Alice Munro
  • Jerzy Kosinski
  • Isaac Asimov
  • Oliver Sacks
  • Anne Rice
  • Charles Schulz
  • William Gass
  • David Foster Wallace
  • Marina Abramovic
  • Twyla Tharp
  • Stephen King
  • Marilynne Robinson
  • Saul Bellow
  • Gerhard Richter
  • Jonathan Franzen
  • Maira Kalman
  • Georges Simenon
  • Stephen Jay Gould
  • Bernard Malamud.