You Are an Artist

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A few years ago curator Sarah Urist Green left her office in the basement of an art museum to travel around visiting a diverse range of artists, asking them to share prompts that relate to their own ways of working. The result is ‘You Are an Artist’, an invitation to invent imaginary friends, measure your cultural history, become someone else but mostly, become a truer version of yourself. Your challenge is to filter these assignments through the lens of your own experience and to have fun along the way. You don’t have to know how to draw, paint or take a picture. This book is about expressing who you are through art, regardless of age or experience.

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Where do great artists get their inspiration? And how could they help you make something extraordinary?

In You Are an Artist, over fifty artists from around the world share their creative techniques, and give you brilliantly imaginative exercises to inspire you to make your own art.

Among other things, you’ll invent imaginary friends, construct a landscape, find the quietest place, measure your history and become someone else (or at least try). You don’t need special materials or experience. Your only challenge is to create art that reflects the world as you see it.

Curator Sarah Urist Green brings together more than 50 assignments gathered from some of the most innovative creators working today, including Sonya Clark, Michelle Grabner, The Guerrilla Girls, Fritz Haeg, Pablo Helguera, Nina Katchadourian, Toyin Ojih Odutola, J. Morgan Puett, Dread Scott, Alec Soth, Gillian Wearing, and many others.

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Weight 0.654 kg
Dimensions 23.2 × 18.8 × 2 cm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

256

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

701.8 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K