Frances Ambler

Banish creative block with inspirational words from Hockney, Pollock and more. Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play. Matisse Use this essential guide to crack artistic algorithms and improve, sustain and nurture your creativity. Brief Lessons in Creativity presents a rich variety of artistic methods and solutions for you to try, and is packed with inspiration and practical takeaways. Stay curious like Rauschenburg by reading, researching and immersing yourself in the world. Repeat and revisit with Cézanne to try things differently and collect and remix with Duchamp and Bacon. Appreciate the importance of solitude and space with Bourgeois and improvise freely with Van Gogh and Miró. With every chapter, learn how to create your best work and embrace a new sense of playfulness.

Brief Lessons in Creativity

Open your life to new ways of seeing with inspirational perspectives from Turner, van Gogh and more. 'I like looking at art. You're always looking and learning and changing your perception about things' - Alex Katz There are as many ways to look as there are to make art. Seeing differently allows you to 2020 create something original, as well as to understand art in new ways. Delve into detail with J.M.W. Turner, see through a prism of pattern with Yayoi Kusama, and distill sights into new forms with Maria Bartuszova. Brief Lessons in Seeing Differently is a guide to opening your mind to new perspectives and sparking creativity in the everyday. Inspiring anecdotes and practical exercises will help you gain a new perspective and reinvigorate your work.

Tate: Brief Lessons in Seeing Differently

'the mundane becomes special as soon as you pay attention to it' - Susan Hiller This essential guide delves into the techniques, routines and mindsets of boundary-shifting artists, and the ways in which seeing differently can lead to creating something original. Learn the advantages of a different angle with Georges Braque, view everyday sights in a new way with Alex Katz and open your eyes to the possibilities of colour with Josef Albers. In every chapter, inspiring anecdotes and practical exercises will you help you gain a new perspective and reinvigorate your work.

'Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.' - Matisse Use this essential guide to crack artistic algorithms and improve, sustain and nurture your creativity. Brief Lessons in Creativity presents a rich variety of artistic methods and solutions for you to try, and is packed with inspiration and practical takeaways. Stay curious like Rauschenberg by immersing yourself in the world through seeing, reading and researching. Repeat and revisit with Cézanne to try things differently, and collect and remix with Matisse and Bacon. Appreciate the importance of solitude and space with Bourgeois, and improvise freely with Van Gogh. With every chapter, learn how to create your best work and embrace a new sense of playfulness.

Tate: Brief Lessons in Creativity

Rough Guides

Samantha Cook

Nicholas Jones

Emily Bick

Lara Kavanagh

The Rough Guide to Vintage London is your ultimate guide to London's burgeoning vintage scene, that is making the British capital a more exciting place to visit than ever before. Whether you're into fifties fashion or seventies furnishings, old-fashioned beauty parlours, Art Deco cafés or retro restaurants, The Rough Guide to Vintage London will show you where to find the best bargains and the hippest hang-outs. This authoritative illustrated guide casts a discerning eye over the entire city, highlighting the best of vintage London in each area. It covers over 200 budget and luxury attractions, from the East End hotspots of hyper-cool Hoxton and Shoreditch to the eccentric emporia of the West End, as well as the pick of London's markets and the classiest vintage outlets north and south of the centre, all marked on full-colour maps. Whatever your look or interest - blitz chic, beehive hairdo, forties screen idol, rockabilly, twenties flapper or Edwardian chap - The Rough Guide to Vintage London will tell you where you can enjoy them to the full. From Consultant-Editor Wayne Hemingway and written by Francis Ambler, Emily Bick, Samantha Cook, Nicholas Jones and Lara Kavanagh.Now available in ePub format.

The Rough Guide to Vintage London

Now 100 years old, the Bauhaus still looks just as fresh today as it did when it began. It was a place to experiment and embrace a new creative freedom. Thanks to this philosophy, the Bauhaus still shapes the world around us. Trace The Story of the Bauhaus through the 100 personalities, designs, ideas and events that shaped this monumental movement. Learn about leaders Paul Klee, Walter Gropius, Anni Albers and Wassily Kandinsky; witness groundbreaking events and wild parties that would revolutionise contemporary design; and discover a range of innovative ideas and new ways of thinking.

The Story of the Bauhaus

'Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist' - Picasso Whether it's through disrupting a routine, turning an idea on its head or challenging the norm, Brief Lessons in Rule Breaking will give you the confidence to take creative risks and experiment, free from self-doubt. Be inspired by the artistic avant garde with wise words from Abramovic, Duchamp and more.

Frances Ambler

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