The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Rubin, Rick

ISBN 10: 1838858636 / ISBN 13: 9781838858636

Published by Canongate Books, 2023

About this Item

Fine in fabric boards, as issued. First printing. This is the Prototype edition, limited to 5000 copies. Tan in colour. Signed by Rubin to a pre title page.

Seller Inventory # 99220

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Creative Act: A Way of Being
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1838858636
• ISBN 13: 9781838858636
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
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Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day and then ages out. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. He has made a practice of helping people transcend their self-imposed expectations in order to reconnect with a state of innocence from which the surprising becomes inevitable.

Over the years, as he has thought deeply about where creativity comes from and where it doesn''t, he has learned that being an artist isn''t about your specific output; it''s about your relationship to the world. Creativity has a place in everyone''s life, and everyone can make that place larger. In fact, there are few more important responsibilities.

The Creative Act is a beautiful and generous course of study that illuminates the path of the artist as a road we all can follow. It distils the wisdom gleaned from a lifetime''s work into a luminous reading experience that puts the power to create moments - and lifetimes - of exhilaration and transcendence within closer reach for all of us.