You Are An Artist
Material type: TextPublication details: London Thames & Hudson 2020Description: 168 175 x 235 x 22.86mmISBN:- 9780500239933
- ARTS SMI
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Books | Arthshila Ahmedabad Cluster: 3F | ARTS/SMI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | BK00746 |
You Are an Artist is for everyone who wants to be an artist, but has been too afraid to take the plunge. It combines a thought-provoking meditation on art practice with a series of practical exercises and creative provocations that encourage everyone to fulfil their potential as an artist. The book is itself a kind of art school, helping the reader to work out what kind of artist they are, and what they can achieve. Drawing on the author's experience as an art school teacher, it playfully adapts the methods of art education, mixing these with the sideways approach to creativity popularized by the author's activist campaigns. Smith provides an array of ideas, tips and practical examples, illustrated with documentary photographs of his own specially made work. His riotous paintings and installations are set alongside discussions of time, place, looking, thinking, stealing and becoming, with enlightening forays into the history of art and creativity.