Art and Soul Notes on Creating
Art and Soul: Notes on Creating by Audrey Flack, published by Penguin in November 1991, is a thought-provoking exploration of the creative process. This reissue spans 160 pages and is presented in English. Flack, a prominent female artist, offers insights into her vision of art as a transformative practice, contrasting the commercialized art world with a deeper, more spiritual approach to creativity.
In this book, Flack guides readers through her understanding of art as a means of self-transcendence and healing. She critiques notable artists from Tintoretto to Jackson Pollock, emphasizing the importance of reconnecting the artist with the broader world. The work addresses themes of creativity, spiritualism, and self-help, making it relevant for both visual artists and anyone engaged in the creative journey.
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One of our foremost female artists conducts us on a visionary journey into the heart of the creative process
At a time when the art world is dominated by trendy egotists and art itself is marketed like toothpaste, Audrey Flack is both an anachronism and a revolutionary: a photorealist painter and sculptor who eschews glamour and who clings to a vision of art as a form of shamanism—a means of self-transcendence whose ultimate aim is the healing of the planet. In this provocative book, Flack shows how the transcendence occurs, in the art of looking as well as in the moment of creation. With its wonderfully acute critiques of artists from Tintoretto to Jackson Pollock and its insistence on reforging the links between the artist and larger world, Art and Soul is a brave, nourishing book that will inspire not only visual artists but anyone who has chosen the creative path.
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