num_pages: 112
description: A stunning and timely creative call-to-arms combining four extraordinary written pieces by Neil Gaiman.The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before. (Neil Gaiman)Drawn from Gaiman's trove of published speeches poems and creative manifestos 'ART MATTERS' is an embodiment of this remarkable multimedia artist's vision - an exploration of how reading imagining and creating can transform the world and our lives. 'ART MATTERS' brings together four of Gaiman's most beloved writings on creativity and artistry:1CREDO his remarkably concise and relevant manifesto on free expression first delivered in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings2MAKE GOOD ART his famous 2012 commencement address delivered at the Philadelphia University of the Arts3MAKING A CHAIR a poem about the joys of creating something even when the words won't come4ON LIBRARIES an impassioned argument for libraries that illuminates their importance to our future and celebrates how they foster readers and daydreamers.'ART MATTERS' is a stirring testament to the freedom of ideas that inspire us to make art in the face of adversity and dares us to choose to be bold.RUNNING TIME  49mins.2018 Neil Gaiman (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers
language: English
title: Art Matters
publisher: Headline