Art Work: On the Creative Life
by Sally Mann
Buy on AmazonThe much-anticipated new book by artist and New York Times bestselling author Sally Mann about the challenges and transcendent pleasures of the creative process "Erudite, frank, and funny." --Amor Towles, bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and The Lincoln Highway Art Work, by photographer and writer Sally Mann, offers a spellbinding mix of wild and illuminating stories, practical (and some impractical) advice, and life lessons. Written in the same direct, fearless, and occasionally outrageous tone of her bestselling memoir, Hold Still, this new book reaffirms Mann as a unique and resonant voice for our times and is destined to become a classic.…
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"Art Work is less a survey than a conversation: part memoir, part workshop, part exhortation to anyone who wants to make something honest. Photographer Sally Mann has always been frank and fearless. The tone is occasionally outrageous, and upends the abiding myth of the artist’s life, that it is some sort of effortless epiphany. Art is work. It is risk and doubt with the occasional flash of inspiration. This generous and provocative guide to the creative life blends photographs, journal-entries, letters and reflections on creative success and its essential counterpart, failure."
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