The creative act : a way of being /
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2023Description: 404 pagesContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780593652886
- 0593652886
- 153.3/5 23/eng/20220921
- BF408 .R7368 2023
Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Standard Loan | Hayden Library Adult Nonfiction | Liberty Lake Library | Book | 153.35 RUB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 05/09/2024 | 31421000718412 | ||
Standard Loan | Hayden Library Adult Nonfiction | Priest Lake Library | Book | 153.3 RUBIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 06/07/2024 | 50610024201746 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The #1 New York Times bestseller.
"A gorgeous and inspiring work of art on creation, creativity, the work of the artist. It will gladden the hearts of writers and artists everywhere, and get them working again with a new sense of meaning and direction. A stunning accomplishment." --Anne Lamott
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us.
" I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art. Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be." --Rick Rubin
Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. He has made a practice of helping people transcend their self-imposed expectations in order to reconnect with a state of innocence from which the surprising becomes inevitable. Over the years, as he has thought deeply about where creativity comes from and where it doesn't, he has learned that being an artist isn't about your specific output, it's about your relationship to the world. Creativity has a place in everyone's life, and everyone can make that place larger. In fact, there are few more important responsibilities.
The Creative Act is a beautiful and generous course of study that illuminates the path of the artist as a road we all can follow. It distills the wisdom gleaned from a lifetime's work into a luminous reading experience that puts the power to create moments--and lifetimes--of exhilaration and transcendence within closer reach for all of us.
"From the legendary music producer, a savant at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book, many years in the making, that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us. "I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art. Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be." -Rick Rubin Many famed music producers, however brilliant, become known for a particular sound which has its day and then ages out. Rick Rubin, on the other hand, is most famous for something else: for creating a strong safe space where artists of wildly different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. To surprise themselves, and thus the world. Rubin's true art is for helping people get out of their own way and commune with the powerful creative signal that is their birthright. Over the years, Rubin has thought deeply about where creativity comes from and where it doesn't, about what it takes to strike a deep nerve within ourselves. Perhaps above all, he has learned that being an artist isn't about your specific output, it's a relationship to the world. Creativity has a space in everyone's life, and everyone has the opportunity to make that space stronger. Indeed, it may be our most important responsibility. More than five years in the making, The Creative Act is a series of meditations that illuminate the path of the artist as a road we all can follow. It is a beautifully generous offering of the wisdom gleaned from a lifetime's work spent in the service of exhilaration and transcendence, distilled into a timeless classic that puts those feelings within closer reach for all of us"--
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Publishers Weekly Review
Grammy-winning music producer Rubin debuts with a meditative manual on how to boost one's creativity. "Your entire life is a form of self-expression," Rubin contends, applying lessons he's learned in the recording studio to inject creativity into everyday life. Observing that listeners sometimes require time to come around to a novel new song, Rubin suggests that the "ideas that least match our expectations are the most innovative" and encourages readers to consider "radically new" ideas even if they turn one off at first. A project is only done "when you feel it is," he posits, entreating readers to seek out the perspectives of others when nearing completion while recognizing that not all feedback will be helpful because innovative work is "likely to alienate as many people as it attracts." Rubin stresses that readers should find what works for them, as when he urges readers to incorporate into their routines creativity-inducing habits that might include exercise, meditating, or "looking at sunlight before screenlight." The dispatches read like ancient spiritual texts in their Zen-like wisdom, as when Rubin writes, "Accessing childlike spirit in our art and our lives is worth aspiring to." Music fans will rejoice. (Jan.)Kirkus Book Review
The renowned music producer offers an apothegmatic study of creativity. "However you frame yourself as an artist, the frame is too small," writes Rubin, producer of albums across genres, from rap to metal to country. Rather than issue gnomic instructions in the manner of Brian Eno's "oblique strategies" set of cards, Rubin, always encouraging, begins by insisting that creativity "is not a rare ability. It is not difficult to access. Creativity is a fundamental aspect of being human." Though readers may feel slightly cowed next to someone like, say, Paul McCartney, whom the author interviewed at length in a recent Hulu series, Rubin has an apt reply: "You exist as a creative being in a creative universe. A singular work of art." There are ways to position oneself in this creative universe and work to best advantage. The author counsels that it's never a bad idea to read the very best books, view the very best movies, and study the very best paintings. The only shortcoming in this strategy is that "no one has the same measures of greatness." Regardless, Rubin urges that the point of art is not to create a product to sell but instead to find a transcendent path to something wonderful within ourselves. "We're not playing to win," he writes, "we're playing to play." This means getting into child mode and preparing for the possibility that one game might be less fun than another. It also involves getting into the habit of not saying no to oneself or imposing limits just because you haven't done something. "If there's a skill or piece of knowledge you need for a particular project, you can do the homework and work toward it over time," writes the author. "You can train for anything." Learn, do, have fun: terrific encouragement for anyone embarking on a creative project, no matter what it might be. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.Author notes provided by Syndetics
Rick Rubin is a nine-time GRAMMY-winning producer, named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time and the most successful producer in any genre by Rolling Stone . He has collaborated with artists from Tom Petty to Adele, Johnny Cash to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys to Slayer, Kanye West to the Strokes, and System of a Down to Jay-Z.There are no comments on this title.