Creation (Literary
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The Hermetic Marriage of Art and Alchemy: Imagination, Creativity, and the Great Work
$40.00 Add to cartAn initiatory and practical guide to creative alchemy
– Shares hermetic and alchemical techniques for liberating creative expression and looks at the zodiacal and planetary timing of creative operatio- Author: Bremner, Marlene Seven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1644112906
- Language: English
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Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
$18.00 Add to cartFree Play is about the inner sources of spontaneous creation. It is about why we create and what we learn when we do. It is about the flow of unhindered creative energy: the joy of making art in all i… [more below]
- Author: Nachmanovitch, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0874776317
- Language: English
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Artist: Awakening the Spirit Within
$19.99 Add to cartJocelyn Jones is one of Hollywood’s most prized secret weapons. A legendary acting teacher, coach, and artistic advisor to the stars, she has served as a confidential Creative Consultant on some of th
- Author: Jones, Jocelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1544528299
- Language: English
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The House of Being
$18.00 Add to cartAn exquisite meditation on the geographies we inherit and the metaphors we inhabit, from Pulitzer Prize winner and nineteenth U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey
“Searching and intimate, this impres- Series: Why I Write
- Author: Trethewey, Natasha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0300265921
- Language: English
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Moving and Grooving to Fillmore’s Beat
$18.99 Read moreFrom music to art to poetry, creativity filled the air in the Fillmore District. The creativity and inclusion brought communities together–with no exceptions. Everyone was welcome, and everyone was a… [more below]
- Author: Werner, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1684467632
- Language: English
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Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression
$22.00 Add to cartA deeply heartfelt weave of reflections and poems about what it means to live the creative, expressive life.
“I cherish the wisdom and embrace the practices offered in this luminous book.” –Mirabai S- Author: Nepo, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1683642309
- Language: English
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The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing
$45.00 Add to cartFrom former editor of New York magazine Adam Moss, a collection of illuminating conversations examining the very personal, rigorous, complex, and elusive work of making art
What is the work of art? In- Author: Moss, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 059329758X
- Language: English
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The Creative Gene: How Books, Movies, and Music Inspired the Creator of Death Stranding and Metal Gear Solid
$22.99 Add to cartThe ferociously talented Hideo Kojima, creator of Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding, shares his perspective on the stories and movies that influence his work!
Ever since he was a child, Metal Gear- Author: Kojima, Hideo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 197472591X
- Language: English
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Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit
$24.95 Add to cartLearn how to challenge fears, be open to new directions, recognize connections between objects and ideas, and much more in this remarkable, indispensable guide to freeing the creative spirit within al… [more below]
- Author: Kent, Corita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 03 2009
- ISBN10: 1581156472
- Language: English
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The Meaning in the Making: The Why and How Behind Our Human Need to Create
$20.00 Add to cartBecome inspired, find your voice, and create work that matters.
Why are human beings driven to make?
It’s as if we collectively intuited, long before science gave us the language, that the universe be
- Author: Tucker, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1681987236
- Language: English
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Pretentiousness: Why It Matters
$18.00 Add to cartPretentiousness is the engine oil of culture; the essential lubricant in the development of all arts, high, low, or middle.
- Author: Fox, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 156689428X
- Language: English
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Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic (Art Book for Artists, Creative Self-Help Book)
$18.95 Add to cartBestselling author, artist, and illustrator Lisa Congdon brings her expertise to this guide to the process of artistic self-discovery.
Find Your Artistic Voice helps artists and creatives identify and- Series: Lisa Congdon X Chronicle Books
- Author: Congdon, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1452168865
- Language: English
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You Are an Artist
$14.99 Add to cart
Aur駘ia Durand shares her path from art school to internationally recognized artist, and how you can start your creative journey. Aur駘ia Durand has been published in The New Yorker, worked with m- Author: Durand, Aurélia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 0744089638
- Language: English
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Essential Art Therapy Exercises: Effective Techniques to Manage Anxiety, Depression, and Ptsd
$19.99 Add to cartDiscover the healing power of art therapy
The purposeful act of making art can be more than a creative outlet. It can also help individuals gain self-awareness, process difficult thoughts, and even ea- Author: Guzman, Leah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: March 31 2020
- ISBN10: 1646111621
- Language: English
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Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings
$24.95 Add to cartAn inside look at the Inklings and their creative process
C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the other Inklings met each week to read and discuss each other’s works-in-progress, offering both encoura
- Author: Glyer, Diana Pavlac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01, 2016
- ISBN10: 1606352768
- Language: English
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Create Anyway: The Joy of Pursuing Creativity in the Margins of Motherhood
$26.99 Read moreToo many women believe the myth that motherhood and creativity are opposing pursuits. But if they look deeper, says artist and mother Ashlee Gadd, they’d discover how using their creative gifts in the
- Author: Gadd, Ashlee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 0764240048
- Language: English
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Courage to Create
$14.95 Add to cartWhat if imagination and art are not, as many of us might think, the frosting on life but the fountainhead of human experience? What if our logic and science derive from art forms, rather than the othe
- Author: May, Rollo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 17 1994
- ISBN10: 0393311066
- Language: English
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The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
$20.00 Add to cartOne of the world’s leading creative artists, choreographers, and creator of the smash-hit Broadway show, Movin’ Out, shares her secrets for developing and honing your creative talents–at once prescri… [more below]
- Author: Tharp, Twyla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0743235274
- Language: English
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Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
$12.95 Add to cartThis 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–
- Author: Bayles, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0961454733
- Language: English
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Devotion
$10.95 Add to cart“Devotion is short enough to devour at one enjoyable sitting and thought-provoking enough to deserve re-reading.”–Suzi Feay, Financial Times
“Devotion shows rather than tells what it means to give a- Series: Why I Write
- Author: Smith, Patti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0300240228
- Language: English
