Artists on Creative Process : How Ideas Are Born

This book should serve as a source of inspiration to helpcreative people overcome the obstacles that can appear during the productionprocess. Featuring 25 genre-defyingartists working outside the mainstream, it takes readers inside their workspaces and challenges them to focus on details that help reveal some of the secretsof their creative activity. In addition to the many images of their work, theartists, in their own words, shed light on the creative processes that madethem possible. They explain why they create, what they are trying to say and howthey look to literature, sculpture, music, theater or scenes from everyday lifeto overcome creative blocks and self-doubt and stay inspired and productive. Throughtheir words and work, the contemporary painters, sculptors, photographers,tattooists, graffiti artists and muralists that appear in this insightful andvisually sumptuous book transmit the emotion, energy, individuality and ironythat defines their artistic production and the creative processes behind it.

ARTISTS INCLUDED: ARGENTINA: Claudio Pedraza. BELGIUM: Ingrid Godon. CHILE: José Romussi. FRANCE: Alexandra Duprez, Eltono, Soeurs Siamoises. GERMANY: Hermann Josef Hack, z-e-b-u. IRAN: Mohammad Barrangi. ITALY: Gaia Bernasconi, Luca Giovagnoli. JAPAN: Sanae Sugimoto, Mogu Takahashi. MEXICO: Federico Jordán, Gimena Romero. PORTUGAL: Mariana Malhão. SAUDI ARABIA: David Shillinglaw. SPAIN: Karto Gimeno, Javier Pagola, Oscar Sanmartín. SWIZERLAND: Johanna Schaible. UK: Nicholas Stevenson, Sophie Woodrow. USA: Michael McGrath (Rhinbeck, NY). VENEZUELA: Cristina Sitja.