This book is about the inner sources of spontaneous creation. It is about where art in the widest sense comes from. It is about why we create and what we learn while doing so. It is about the flow of unhindered creative energy: the joy of making art in all its varied forms.
Free Play is directed toward people in any field who want to contact,honour and strengthen their own creative powers. It reveals how inspiration arises within us,how that inspiration may be blocked,derailed or obscured by certain unavoidable facts of life. How it can finally be liberated - how we can be liberated - to speak or sing,write or paint,dance or play,with our own authentic voice.
Wise,generous and timeless,it has been a touchstone for creativity since 1990 and it is a book that you will find yourself reaching for again and again in times of need. This 2024 edition includes a new afterword by the author and a foreword by Women's Prize for Fiction-winner Ruth Ozeki.
Publisher: Canongate BooksISBN: 9781805301929Number of pages: 240Dimensions: 198 x 129 mmEdition: Main - Canons
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'Nachmanovitch tells it like it is in the most important book on improvisation I've yet seen'- Keith Jarrett
'Stephen Nachmanovitch has produced a celebration of human uniqueness'- Norman Cousins
'Would that Free Play found its way into every school,office,hospital,and factory. It is a most exciting book and a most important one'- Yehudi Menuhin
'A classic. Nachmanovitch examines the prerequisites of creation,offers concrete strategies for active surrender (and) considers the ultimate impetus of why we are called to create at all... altogether vitalising. The remedy for creative block and existential stuckness'- Maria Popova
'If you want to be intellectually informed about how people actually create things,then you should read it at least once'- Robert Pirsig
'Not only gives the reader an inside view of the states of mind that give rise to improvisation,it is also a celebration of the power of the human spirit,which when exercised with love,immense patience and discipline is an antidote to hate'- Yo-yo Ma on The Art of Is
Stephen Nachmanovitch
Visit the Stephen Nachmanovitch author pageRuth Ozeki
Ruth Ozeki is a multi-award-winning American-Canadian novelist,writer and film-maker,best known for her Women's Prize for Fiction-winning The Book of Form and Emptiness (2022) and the Booker Prize-shortlisted A Tale for the Time Being (2013).
Visit the Ruth Ozeki author page
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