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How did Richard Ford's cat influence his are a novelist? HOW is Chuck Close's portraiture powered by his lack of ability to remember faces? What pivotal second helped Rosanne Cash understand the restorative healing electric power of the level? Creativity is an elusive subject. We enjoy its fruits - videos, novels, paintings, tunes - but almost never are we privy to what happens in the creative process. In Spark, Julie Burstein traces the root base of some of the 21st century's most important and creative thinkers, including Joyce Carol Oates, Yo-Yo Ma, David Milch, Isabel Allende, and Joshua Redman. Burstein pulls back again the drape to show the sources of these painters' inspiration and the processes that bring their work into being. "These painters might not exactly change lead into platinum," Burstein writes, "however they lift materials using their company familiar contexts, combining, reshaping, transforming them into works of art that change the way we see the world." Spark is an invaluable reference for the aspiring writer and artist, but the need for imagination expands well beyond the world of paintbrushes and typewriters. Creativeness is important to business, parenting, education, knowledge, and, perhaps most poignantly, our personal romantic relationships. Rarely do literature on imagination illuminate and inspire; this wonderful volume can help you find a spark of your.
