Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross – Your brain on art
Interesting to read how advances in brain science lead to confirmation of intuitive but traditionally hard-to-prove hypotheses.
Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross – Your brain on art
Interesting to read how advances in brain science lead to confirmation of intuitive but traditionally hard-to-prove hypotheses.
Highly entertaining book, providing entertaining facts and refreshing perspectives.
Marcus de Sautoy – The creativity code
Surprisingly up-beat considering its message and packed with nice examples.
Jerry Saltz – How to be an artist
What is good advice for life is typically also good advice for art, and vice versa.
A practical guide to understanding composition and graphic design.
The metroric rise of art prices is a fascinating topic, but the author get a bit lost in his effort to ducoment each twist or turn in the lives of the secondary characters in his story.
Steven Pressfield – The war of art
Well written plea for taking ownership – and action.
Marina Abramovic – Walking through walls
As a strong artist, she controls her performances perfectly; but she seems to have more difficulty with life itself.
Walter Isaacson – Leonardo da Vinci
Isaacson’s narrative falacy (‘Leonardo never finishing what he starts’) is at odds with the public recognition he received in his own day and age.