- Paperback: 267 pages
- Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd (20 May 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0413773485
- ISBN-13: 978-0413773487
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,305,556 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A series of interviews exploring the process of creativity with the great artists, composers and writers of our time. The interviewees include: Howard Hodgkin, Antony Caro, Elliot Carter, Eve Arnold, David Sylvester, Nicholas Grimshaw, Gyorgy Ligeti, Milos Forman, Paula Rego, Harrison Birtwistle, Frank Auerbach, Tony Harrison and Muriel Spark.
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This book records a series of interviews with artists which former Newsnight presenter and current South Bank Centre director John Tusa conducted for BBC Radio 3. This is not the "celeb A-list" end of the artistic world - the interviewees are uniformly distinguished and fairly late in their careers; some have rarely said anything about themselves in public before. Between them, they cover a wide range of "serious" artistic endeavour: painting, sculpture, music, architecture, film and even art criticism. Tusa is an extremely knowledgeable and sympathetic interviewer - no hint of Paxman-style confrontation here - and his obvious admiration for these artists' work probably encourages the more reticent of them to speak with untypical freedom.
Each chapter starts with a brief introduction to the artist's work to place them in context, but the bulk of the text is a straight transcription of the interview. This approach has its strengths and weaknesses but on the whole it works well. However I would caution against trying to read this book straight through, as I did, because the effect can be somewhat numbing. Better to dip into it one chapter at a time.
The main doubt over this book must be on the question of what exactly it is trying to do. Writing or talking about creativity may, as one of the interviewees remarks, be "like singing about architecture". Nonetheless, I enjoyed the insight into the fascinating and diverse cast Tusa has assembled, even if it doesn't increase one's own creativity at all.
Each chapter starts with a brief introduction to the artist's work to place them in context, but the bulk of the text is a straight transcription of the interview. This approach has its strengths and weaknesses but on the whole it works well. However I would caution against trying to read this book straight through, as I did, because the effect can be somewhat numbing. Better to dip into it one chapter at a time.
The main doubt over this book must be on the question of what exactly it is trying to do. Writing or talking about creativity may, as one of the interviewees remarks, be "like singing about architecture". Nonetheless, I enjoyed the insight into the fascinating and diverse cast Tusa has assembled, even if it doesn't increase one's own creativity at all.
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