CREATIVITY: The Perfect Crime

Petit, Philippe

ISBN 10: 1594631689 / ISBN 13: 9781594631689

Published by Riverhead Books, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2014

About this Item

Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. In 1974, in one of the greatest acts of daring and imagination ever conceived and performed by an individual, Philippe Petit walked across a wire suspended between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center (a feat that was six years in the planning). In all, he has performed on the high wire some eighty times around the world, and he is also a magician, street-juggler, visual artist, builder, and writer. He is the author of ten books, including TO REACH THE CLOUDS, the basis of the 2008 Academy Award-winning documentary, 'Man on Wire.' With the reader as his accomplice, Petit in CREATIVITY: The Perfect Crime reveals fresh and unconventional ways of going about the artistic endeavor, from generating and shaping ideas to practicing, problem-solving and ultimately pulling off the "coup" itself--executing a finished work. A rebel and autodidact, Petit's outlaw sensibility (he has been arrested more than five hundred times) spawned a unique approach to the creative process--an approach he shares here with characteristic enthusiasm, irreverence, and originality. Mint, unread copy, opened only for signing, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket.{BUND}.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: CREATIVITY: The Perfect Crime
• Publisher: Riverhead Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1594631689
• ISBN 13: 9781594631689
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Mint
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

In the vein of The Creative Habit and The Artist’s Way, a new manifesto on the creative process from a master of the impossible.
 
Since well before his epic 1974 walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, Philippe Petit had become an artist who answered first and foremost to the demands of his craft—not only on the high wire, but also as a magician, street juggler, visual artist, builder, and writer. A born rebel like many creative people, he was from an early age a voracious learner who taught himself, cultivating the attitudes, resources, and techniques to tackle even seemingly impossible feats. His outlaw sensibility spawned a unique approach to the creative process—an approach he shares, with characteristic enthusiasm, irreverence, and originality in Creativity: The Perfect Crime.
            Making the reader his accomplice, Petit reveals new and unconventional ways of going about the artistic endeavor, from generating and shaping ideas to practicing and problem-solving to pulling off the “coup” itself—executing a finished work. The strategies and insights he shares will resonate with performers of every stripe (actors, musicians, dancers) and practitioners of the non-performing arts (painters, writers, sculptors), and also with ordinary mortals in search of fresh ways of tackling the challenges and possibilities of everyday existence.

About the Author

Philippe Petit has performed on the high wire more than eighty times around the world; he is also a magician, street juggler, visual artist, builder, lecturer, and writer. A frequent contributor to TED and other national venues, he is the author and illustrator of several books, including To Reach the Clouds, the basis of the 2009 Academy Award–winning documentary Man on Wire. He lives in upstate New York.