If You Want to Write A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Sublime Books
Fr. 34.90
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
03.04.2018
Verlag
Sublime BooksSeitenzahl
122
Maße (L/B/H)
23.5/15.7/1.1 cm
Gewicht
339 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-5154-3252-4
If You Want to Write is Brenda Ueland's classic book on creativity, artistic independence, truthful expression, and the inward freedom required to make art. First published in 1938, it is framed as a book for writers, but its deeper subject is the creative life itself: attention, confidence, imagination, discipline without deadening rules, and the courage to tell the truth in one's own voice. Ueland writes against timidity, imitation, self-censorship, and the false authority of people who make art feel smaller than it is. This is a strong Sublime title because it is not simply a manual of craft. It belongs to the tradition of self-culture and creative-spiritual independence: a book about writing as a practice of honesty, perception, vitality, and inner authority. Ueland's teaching is direct, generous, and stubbornly liberating. She treats creativity as something living in ordinary people, not as a professional credential bestowed by institutions. The result is one of the enduring twentieth-century books on writing, art, and the independent spirit. For readers of classic writing guides, creativity, artistic self-development, women's literary nonfiction, and books on the creative life, If You Want to Write remains unusually fresh: practical without being mechanical, spiritual without being vague, and insistent that real art begins in truthfulness.
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