ArtWork Seeing Inside the Creative Process

by Vartanian, Ivan

• ISBN13: 9780811871280
• ISBN10: 0811871282
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-11
• Publisher: Chronicle Books

Summary

A book reproducing journal pages and other visual materials that a range of artists, filmmakers, writers, and other creative people, use to capturing and foster their creative process---all loosely constituting a form of note taking; from literal notebooks to a blizzard of post-it notes to chalkboards to the marks recorded incidentally but tellingly on the walls of a sculptor's studio after casting his work. The materials and their creative methods are illustrated with several hundred photographs and drawings, with accompanying contextual material on the creative processes of these individual masters. The text components vary from subject to subject, in some cases being a profile by a curator or collaborator, in some cases an interview with the subject, in some cases text directly from the person themselves. Includes contributions from: Wes Anderson, Ingmar Bergman, Joseph Beuys, Blek le rat, Louise Bourgeois, Merce Cunningham, Joan Fontcuberta, Patti Smith, Richard Hell, Eva Hesse, Eikoh Ishioka, Anish Kapoor, Tony Kushner, Stephen Page, Carl Sagan, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Will Self, Richard Serra, Shahzia Sikander, Doug and Mike Starn, David Wojnarowicz, Yohji Yamamoto and Tadanori Yokoo.

Author Biography

Ivan Vartanian is the author or editor of numerous books on international art and design, including Drop Dead Cute, Style Deficit Disorder, and See/Saw. He lives in Japan.