Spark: how creativity works

by Burstein, Julie

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Title Statements

Full title :Spark : how creativity works / Julie Burstein ; foreword by Kurt Andersen.

Summary

How did Richard Ford's cat influence his work as a novelist? How is Chuck Close's portraiture driven by his inability to remember faces? What pivotal moment helped Rosanne Cash understand the healing power of the stage? Creativity is an elusive subject. We enjoy its fruits--movies, novels, paintings, songs--but rarely are we privy to what happens in the creative process. In Spark, journalist Julie Burstein traces the roots of some of the twenty-first century's most influential and creative thinkers, including Joyce Carol Oates, Yo-Yo Ma, David Milch, Isabel Allende, and Joshua Redman. Burstein pulls back the curtain to reveal the sources of these artists' inspiration and the processes that bring their work into being. "These artists may not change lead into gold," Burstein writes, "but they lift materials from their familiar contexts, combining, reshaping, transforming them into works of art that change the way we see the world."--Publisher description

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.
Edition:1st ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Harper
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xvii, 249 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780062064158, 0062064150
oclc:ocn705063500
LC Classification:BF408
Dewey Decimal:153.3/5

Subjects

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Creative ability Créativité creativity Gifted persons Gifted persons -- Interviews interviews PSYCHOLOGY & PSYCHIATRY Surdoués -- Entretiens