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To be an artist : musicians, visual artists, writers, and dancers speak /

"To be an artist" is a conversation with today's successful and prominent artists from a variety of disciplines--musicians, visual artists, digital artists, poets, writers, activists and scholars. All of them discuss what it means to be an artist today, how they perceive their craft a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Colatosti, Camille (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bowie, Maryland : E L Kurdyla Publishing, [2012]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: For artists and all of us
  • Part I: Knowing oneself : choosing an artist's life. Ch. 1. Victor Wooten : born into a band--understanding oneself ; Ch. 2. Nona Hendryx : art as metamorphosis--remaking herself ; Ch. 3. William Banfield : personal aesthetics ; Ch. 4. Michael Bearden : being true to yourself ; Ch. 5. Caroline Harvey : claiming your art and transforming lives
  • Part II: Exploring interrelationships among the arts. Ch. 6. Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez : writing the music ; Ch. 7. Ellen Priest : seeing the world ; Ch. 8. China Blue : listening to and recording the world ; Ch. 9. Henry Diltz : shooting the world ; Ch. 10. Lori Landay : visual meaning--technology, art, and culture
  • Part III: Sustaining culture and community. Ch. 11. Bruce George : the politics of art ; Ch. 12. Doug Stanton : writing and living in the community ; Ch. 13. Otis Sallid : the languages of art
  • Part IV: Bringing joy ; telling the truth. Ch. 14. Greg Jaris : re-enchanting the world's magic ; Ch. 15. Bobby McFerrin : spreading joy ; Ch. 16. Janis Ian : being an artist
  • Conclusion: Courage, vision, worldview--and magic.