LEADER 00000cam a2200493Ii 4500 001 ocn805056300 003 OCoLC 005 20151009091906.0 008 120914t20142013nyua b 001 0 eng 010 2012036279 019 826452327 020 9780307273604|q(hardback) 020 0307273601|q(hardback) 024 8 40022474978 040 DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dIG#|dBTCTA|dBDX|dOCLCO|dYDXCP|dBUR |dBWX|dCOO|dCDX|dSGB|dYUS|dUBY|dJQM|dOCLCF|dOCLCQ|dI3U |dOCLCQ|dWCH 049 WCHA 090 NX165|b.C87 2013 100 1 Currey, Mason,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ n2012060333|eauthor. 245 10 Daily rituals :|bhow artists work /|cMason Currey. 250 First edition. 264 1 New York :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c2014. 264 4 |c©2014 300 xviii, 278 pages :|billustrations ;|c20 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-266) and index. 505 00 |tW.H. Auden --|tFrancis Bacon --|tSimone de Beauvoir -- |tThomas Wolfe --|tPatricia Highsmith --|tFederico Fellini --|tIngmar Bergman --|tMorton Feldman --|tWolfgang Amadeus Mozart --|tLudwig van Beethoven --|tSoren Kierkegaard -- |tVoltaire --|tBenjamin Franklin --|tAnthony Trollope -- |tJane Austen --|tFrédéric Chopin --|tGustave Flaubert -- |tHenri de Toulouse-Lautrec --|tThomas Mann --|tKarl Marx --|tSigmund Freud --|tCarl Jung --|tGustav Mahler -- |tRichard Strauss --|tHenri Matisse --|tJoan Miró -- |tGertrude Stein --|tErnest Hemingway --|tHenry Miller -- |tF. Scott Fitzgerald --|tWilliam Faulkner --|tArthur Miller --|tBenjamin Britten --|tAnn Beattie --|tGünter Grass --|tTom Stoppard --|tHaruki Murakami --|tToni Morrison --|tJoyce Carol Oates --|tChuck Close -- |tFrancine Prose --|tJohn Adams --|tSteve Reich -- |tNicholson Baker --|tB.F. Skinner --|tMargaret Mead -- |tJonathan Edwards --|tSamuel Johnson --|tJames Boswell -- |tImmanuel Kant --|tWilliam James --|tHenry James -- |tFranz Kafka --|tJames Joyce --|tMarcel Proust --|tSamuel Beckett --|tIgor Stravinsky --|tErik Satie --|tPablo Picasso --|tJean-Paul Sartre --|tT.S. Eliot --|tDmitry Shostakovich --|tHenry Green --|tAgatha Christie -- |tSomerset Maugham --|tGraham Greene --|tJoseph Cornell -- |tSylvia Plath --|tJohn Cheever --|tLouis Armstrong -- |tW.B. Yeats --|tWallace Stevens --|tKingsley Amis -- |tMartin Amis --|tUmberto Eco --|tWoody Allen --|tDavid Lynch --|tMaya Angelou --|tGeorge Balanchine --|tAl Hirschfeld --|tTruman Capote --|tRichard Wright --|tH.L. Mencken --|tPhilip Larkin --|tFrank Lloyd Wright --|tLouis I. Kahn --|tGeorge Gershwin --|tJoseph Heller --|tJames Dickey --|tNikola Tesla --|tGlenn Gould --|tLouise Bourgeois --|tChester Himes --|tFlannery O'Connor -- |tWilliam Styron --|tPhilip Roth --|tP.G. Wodehouse -- |tEdith Sitwell --|tThomas Hobbes --|tJohn Milton --|tRene Descartes --|tJohann Wolfgang von Goethe --|tFriedrich Schiller --|tFranz Schubert --|tFranz Liszt --|tGeorge Sand --|tHonoré de Balzac --|tVictor Hugo --|tCharles Dickens --|tCharles Darwin -- Herman Melville -- |tNathaniel Hawthorne --|tLeo Tolstoy -- Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky --|tMark Twain --|tAlexander Graham Bell -- |tVincent van Gogh --|tN.C. Wyeth --|tGeorgia O'Keeffe -- |tSergey Rachmaninoff --|tVladimir Nabokov -- Balthus -- |tLe Corbusier --|tBuckminster Fuller --|tPaul Erdos -- |tAndy Warhol --|tEdward Abbey --|tV.S. Pritchett -- |tEdmund Wilson --|tJohn Updike --|tAlbert Einstein --|tL. Frank Baum --|tKnut Hamsun --|tWilla Cather --|tAyn Rand - -|tGeorge Orwell --|tJames T. Farrell --|tJackson Pollock --|tCarson McCullers --|tWillem de Kooning --|tJean Stafford --|tDonald Barthelme --|tAlice Munro --|tJerzy Kosinski --|tIsaac Asimov --|tOliver Sacks --|tAnne Rice - -|tCharles Schulz --|tWilliam Gass --|tDavid Foster Wallace --|tMarina Abramovic --|tTwyla Tharp --|tStephen King --|tMarilynne Robinson --|tSaul Bellow --|tGerhard Richter --|tJonathan Franzen --|tMaira Kalman --|tGeorges Simenon --|tStephen Jay Gould --|tBernard Malamud. 520 "How artists work, how they ritualize their days with the comforting (mundane) details of their lives: their daily routines, fears, dreams, naps, eating habits, and other prescribed, finely calibrated "subtle maneuvers" that help them use time, summon up willpower, exercise self- discipline and keep themselves afloat with optimism. Artists considering how they work--in letters, diaries, interviews, beguilingly compiled and edited by Mason Currey. Portraits that inspire, amuse, and delight and that reveal the profound fusion of discipline and dissipation through which the artistic temperament is allowed to evolve, recharge, emerge. From Beethoven and Kafka to George Sand, Picasso, Woody Allen and Agatha Christie; from Leo Tolstoy and Henry James to Charles Dickens and John Updike, here are writers, composers, painters, choreographers, playwrights, philosophers, caricaturists, comedians, poets, sculptors, and scientists on how they create (and avoid creating) their creations. A Sampling of Daily Rituals Charles Dickens Dickens's eldest son recalled that, "no city clerk was ever more methodical or orderly than he; no humdrum, monotonous, conventional task could ever have been discharged with more punctuality or with more business-like regularity than he gave to the work of his imagination and fancy." Dickens rose at 7:00, had breakfast at 8:00, and was in his study by 9:00. He stayed there until 2:00, taking a brief break for lunch with his family, during which he often seemed to be in a trance, eating mechanically and barely speaking a word before hurrying back to his desk. On an ordinary day he could complete about two thousand words, but during a flight of imagination he sometimes managed twice that amount. Maya Angelou: "I keep a hotel room in which I do my work--a tiny, mean room with just a bed and, sometimes, if I can find it, a face basin. I keep a dictionary, a Bible, a deck of cards, and a bottle of sherry in the room ..."--Provided by publisher. 546 English text. 650 0 Artists|xPsychology.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh85008280 650 0 Work ethic|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/ sh85148148|vMiscellanea.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh99001794 650 7 Artists|xPsychology.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 817612 650 7 Work ethic.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1180301 655 7 Trivia and miscellanea.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/ fast/1921748 655 7 Trivia and miscellanea.|2lcgft|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/genreForms/gf2014026201 856 42 |3Cover image|u978-0-307-27360-4.jpg 901 MARCIVE 20231220 935 597878 948 |d20160930|clti|tlti-aex 994 C0|bWCH
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