Art and Soul: Notes on Creating

By Audrey Flack

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140193472
• ISBN13: 9780140193473
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Brilliant

Audrey Flack captures the life of an artist beautifully. Her words of wisdom from her experiences are very enlightening and anyone can gain something positive from this book.

A good book for artists

This book has brief quotes by the author and others on art and creativity. The author is very encouraging and enlightening. It's not made for reding through at one sitting; rather to look through now and then. Very thoughtful!