Artist Francis Bacon’s Conflicted and Creative Life, Illustrated
David Lynch has called legendary British artist Francis Bacon (October 28, 1909–April 28, 1992) “the main guy, the number one kinda hero painter.” Like Lynch’s films, Bacon’s paintings compel the way a scene from a nightmare does — a scream piercing the psyche, at once terrifying in its beauty and beautiful in its terror. “An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs,”
The 13 Best Psychology and Philosophy Books of 2013
After the best biographies, memoirs, and history books of 2013, the season’s subjective selection of best-of reading lists continue with the most stimulating psychology and philosophy books published this year. (Catch up on the 2012 roundup here and 2011’s here.) 1. ON LOOKING: ELEVEN WALKS WITH EXPERT EYES “How we spend our days,” Annie Dillard wrote in her timelessly beautiful meditation on pres
Little Tree: An Uncommonly Beautiful and Subtle Japanese Pop-Up Book about the Cycle of Life
Pop-up books have a singular magic, but even the pioneering vintage “interactive” picture-books of Italian graphic designer Bruno Munari can’t compare to the beauty, subtlety, and exquisite elegance of those by Japanese graphic designer and book artist Katsumi Komagata. When his daughter was born in 1990, Komagata expanded his graphic design studio, One Stroke, into publishing and began making ext
The Relationship Between Creativity and Mental Illness
“I think I’ve only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing,” Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Katherine Anne Porter confessed in a 1963 interview. “The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.” While art may be a form of therapy for the rest of us, Porter’s is a sentiment far from uncommon among the creatively gifted who make that art. Why? When Nancy Andreasen took a stand
How to Read Faster: Bill Cosby’s Three Proven Strategies
“All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading,” H. P. Lovecraft famously advised aspiring writers. Indeed, reading is an essential skill on par with writing, and though non-reading may be an intellectual choice on par with reading, reading itself — just like writing — is a craft that requires optimal technique for optimal outcome. So how, exactly, do we hone that vital
The Art of Richard Feynman: The Great Physicist’s Little-Known Sketches and Drawings, Collected by His Daughter
Just like Sylvia Plath and Queen Victoria, Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman (May 11, 1918–February 15, 1988) — champion of scientific culture, graphic novel hero, crusader for integrity, holder of the key to science, adviser of future generations, bongo player — was a surprisingly gifted semi-secret artist. He started drawing at the age of 44 in 1962, shortly after developing the visual lan
Ted Hughes on the Universal Inner Child, in a Moving Letter to His Son
“The analogy between the artist and the child is that both live in a world of their own making,” wrote Anaïs Nin in her diary in 1945. Four decades later, 23 years after Sylvia Plath took her own life at the age of 30, Ted Hughes (August 17, 1930–October 28, 1998) wrote to their 24-year-old son, Nicholas. The letter, found in Letters of Ted Hughes (public library), is superb in its entirety and a
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Stunning Vintage Illustrations of Don Quixote by Spanish Graphic Design Pioneer Roc Riera Rojas
Susan Sontag on the Creative Purpose of Boredom
100 Ideas That Changed Art
The Wisdom of the Heart: Henry Miller on the Art of Living
Neil Gaiman’s 8 Rules of Writing
Timeless Lessons in Ingenuity and Entrepreneurship from the Story of Polaroid
Minimalist Posters Celebrating Six Pioneering Women in Science
Vintage Posters for Libraries and Reading
Why We Cry: The Science of Sobbing and Emotional Tearing
Why Emotional Excess is Essential to Writing and Creativity
How to Read Like a Writer
The Forms of Things Unknown: A Timeless 1963 Meditation on the Role of the Creative Arts in Society
Ezra Pound’s List of the Six Types of Writers, Plus His Two Rules for Forming an Opinion