Description
A stunning and timely creative call-to-arms combining four extraordinary written pieces by Neil Gaiman illustrated with the striking four-color artwork of Chris Riddell.
The world always seems brighter when youve just made something that wasnt there Gaiman
Drawn from Gaimans trove of published speeches, poems, and creative manifestos, Art Matters is an embodiment of this remarkable multi-media artists visionan exploration of how reading, imagining, and creating can transform the world and our lives.
Art Matters bring together four of Gaimans most beloved writings on creativity and artistry:
Credo, his remarkably concise and relevant manifesto on free expression, first delivered in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings
Make Good Art, his famous 2012 commencement address delivered at the Philadelphia University of the Arts
Making a Chair, a poem about the joys of creating something, even when words wont come
On Libraries, an impassioned argument for libraries that illuminates their importance to our future and celebrates how they foster readers and daydreamers
Featuring original illustrations by Gaimans longtime illustrator, Chris Riddell, Art Matters is a stirring testament to the freedom of ideas that inspires us to make art in the face of adversity, and dares us to choose to be bold.
Author: Neil Gaiman, Chris Riddell
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 11/20/2018
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.00w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780062906205
Language: English
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