The Storm Of Creativity
The stages of the creative process--from "unlearning" to beginning again--seen through examples from the practice of artists, architects, poets, and others.
Although each instance of creativity is singular and specific, Kyna Leski tells us, the creative process is universal. Artists, architects, poets, inventors, scientists, and others all navigate the same stages of the process in order to discover something that does not yet exist. All of us must work our way through the empty page, the blank screen, writer's block, confusion, chaos, and doubt. In this book, Leski draws from her observations and experiences as a teacher, student, maker, writer, and architect to describe the workings of the creative process.
Leski sees the creative process as being like a storm; it slowly begins to gather and take form until it overtakes us--if we are willing to let it. It is dynamic, continually in motion; it starts, stops, rages and abates, ebbs and flows. In illustrations that accompany each chapter, she maps the arc of the creative process by tracing the path of water droplets traveling the stages of a storm.
Product details
- Paperback | 216 pages
- 137 x 203 x 15.24mm | 272.16g
- 11 Aug 2020
- MIT Press Ltd
- Mit Press
- United States
- English
- 38 B&W ILLUS.
- 0262539497
- 9780262539494
