Creative Talent Books

Inspiring Creativity

Consists of 22 truly amazing articles by professional creativity coaches. These are people who are trained to work with artists and thinkers, coaches who understand the challenges that creative people face day in and day out.

> more review on books : nurturing talent: A-K..

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The Van Gogh Blues - by Eric Maisel

This is not a book about van Gogh. He appears, disappears, reappears, but he never settles down as our central subject or object. Rather, this is a book about all creators: about you, me, painters in Tokyo, biologists in Moscow, novelists in Egypt. It is about who we are, what we do, and why we get depressed.

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Creativity: From Potential to Realization
by Robert J. Sternberg, Elena L. Grigorenko, Jerome L. Singer

Who is creative... and why? And what does it mean to be creative? Is a creative individual a master-of-all trades or a master of one? In other words, is creativity a generalized attribute or is it a domain-specific attribute?

The authors ponder these questions and discuss the attributes that lead people to be creative in various fields such as the arts and letters, the sciences, and business.

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A Life in the Arts - by Eric Maisel, Ph.D.
Part One: The Challenges of the Artistic Personality; Of Moods and Madness
The Challenges of the Work; Blocks; The Business of Art
Obscurity and Stardom ; The Challenge of Relationships /etc

> also see his new book: Coaching the Artist Within

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Understanding Creativity : The Interplay of Biological, Psychological, and Social Factors - by John S. Dacey, Kathleen H. Lennon

"The authors advance the biopsychosocial perspective as a model of the creative process.... This new perspective promises to further our understanding of the intricacies of the creative mind. In the process of studying this book, readers may increase the probability of enhancing their own creativity."
-- Prof. Richard E. Ripple, Cornell University

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Julie Taymor: Playing with Fire - by Eileen Blumenthal, Julie Taymor

In a number of interviews, director and designer Julie Taymor has talked about the rich and formative experience she had during her twenties, living in Indonesia and learning about its art and theater.

"In Bali, there was no word for 'art' because that's what people do," she has commented. "It's just part of your devotion as a human being."

> from interview by Douglas Eby

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Walking in This World: The Practical Art of Creativity - by Julia Cameron

It is one of the ironies of the creative life that while drama is a part of what we make, it has almost no place in how we make it. Even those famous artists who suffered famously dramatic lives were remarkably undramatic in their actual work habits. Hemingway wrote five hundred words a day, wife in and wife out. Composer Richard Rodgers wrote a composition every morning, nine to nine-thirty. ... This argues that we get a lot further creatively by staying put and doing something small and do-able daily in the life we already have.
... [excerpt from the book]

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