The Everyday Work of Art: How Artistic Experience Can Transform Your Life
An actor, businessman, and instructor at Juilliard, Booth here teaches a new way of understanding art and experiencing life. Booth wants the reader to see art as a process, not necessarily an object, and to understand that we can engage in the artistic process in all aspects of our lives. The book begins with a section on what art is and how we can experience it everywhere. Next comes a look at the skills necessary to explore the basics of art, such as being able to observe and respond to what we see and feel. In the third section, Booth provides three examples (storytelling, problem-solving, and writing poetry) of how we can produce art, and he ends with a section explaining how to engage all of the skills and ideas he has taught. This book will help all readers to see, appreciate, and understand our world, and will give them skills needed to improve it. For all public library self-help collections.?Elizabeth Caulfield Felt, Washington State Univ. Lib., PullmanCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.