Artists - Psychology

  • Art Rules: How Great Artists Think, Create and Work

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    The best thing about rules is that you can break them: here are over 100 mantras for anyone interested in creating great art.

    What can we learn from great artists? When we hold their practices up to th

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    • Author: Packard, Cassie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: September 12 2023
    • ISBN10: 0711270295
    • Language: English
  • If You Are an Artist

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    If you are an artist, you wonder . . . How? Why? and What if? You daydream adventure, you stare at the stars, you let your imagination grow, and grow, and GROW! And most importantly, you know that the

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    • Author: Auchenbach, Meg
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 32
    • Publish Date: February 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 144134201X
    • Language: English
  • Woman Pissing

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    When we think of prototypical artists, we think of, say, Picasso, who made work quickly, easily, effervescently. On the contrary, in Woman Pissing, a literary collage that takes its title from a raunc… [more below]

    • Author: Cooperman, Elizabeth
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: September 01 2022
    • ISBN10: 1496231449
    • Language: English
  • Art and Artist: Creative Urge and Personality Development

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    Along with Adler and Jung, Otto Rank was one of the intellectual giants in the inner circle around Sigmund Freud. Art and Artist, his major statement on the relationship of art to the individual and s… [more below]

    • Author: Rank, Otto
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 532
    • Publish Date: March 13 2009
    • ISBN10: 0393305740
    • Language: English
  • Creative, Not Famous: The Small Potato Manifesto

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    Few artists achieve fame and fortune, but that doesn’t mean your creative life can’t flourish. Writer, illustrator, zinemaker, and playwright Ayun Halliday interviewed dozens of creative people and sh… [more below]

    • Author: Halliday, Ayun
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: May 10 2022
    • ISBN10: 1648410596
    • Language: English
  • How to Be an Artist Without Losing Your Mind, Your Shirt, or Your Creative Compass: A Practical Guide

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    Whether you’re a new graduate, considering a job change, or a creative type who isn’t finding time to pursue your passions, don’t fall for this line: “Do what you love and the money will follow.” The

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    • Author: Nagler, JoAnneh
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 210
    • Publish Date: May 03 2016
    • ISBN10: 1581573677
    • Language: English
  • Your Art Will Save Your Life

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    A candid guidebook about art-making in the midst of oppression–a slim, necessary revelation (Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts).

    Visiting the Andy Warhol Museum as a teenager, Beth Pickens realized that a

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    • Author: Pickens, Beth
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 136
    • Publish Date: April 10 2018
    • ISBN10: 1936932296
    • Language: English
  • The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

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    Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism

    #1 Book of the Year from Brain Pickings

    Named a best book of the year by NPR, Newsweek, Slate, Pop Sugar, Marie Claire, Elle, Publisher

    • Author: Laing, Olivia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: June 06, 2017
    • ISBN10: 1250118034
    • Language: English
  • Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

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    This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentially–statistically speaking–

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    • Author: Bayles, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 122
    • Publish Date: January 01, 1970
    • ISBN10: 0961454733
    • Language: English
  • How to Be an Artist

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    Instant New York Times Bestseller

    “Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz’s new book on creativity. . . . This book is for the artist or non-artist, for the person who gets plain English, fo

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    • Author: Saltz, Jerry
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: March 17 2020
    • ISBN10: 0593086465
    • Language: English
  • Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

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    More than 150 inspired–and inspiring–novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians on how they subtly maneuver the many (self-inflicted) obstacles and (self-i

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    • Author: Currey, Mason
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: April 23 2013
    • ISBN10: 0307273601
    • Language: English
  • Affinities: On Art and Fascination

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    A meditation on the power and pleasures of the image, from paintings to photographs to migraine auras, by one of Britain’s finest literary minds.

    In Affinities, Brian Dillon, who Joyce Carol Oates has

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    • Author: Dillon, Brian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: April 25 2023
    • ISBN10: 1681377268
    • Language: English
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