{"product_id":"art-work-on-the-creative-life","title":"art work: on the creative life","description":"\u003cp\u003e“A big and beautiful gift-worthy holiday art book” (New York Times), this new bookby artist Sally Mann about the challenges and transcendent pleasures of the creative process, is now a New York Times bestseller.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Erudite, frank, and funny.” ―Amor Towles, bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and The Lincoln Highway\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOffering a spellbinding mix of wild and illuminating stories, practical (and some impractical) advice, and life lessons, Art Work, by photographer and writer Sally Mann, is not to be missed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in the same direct, fearless, and occasionally outrageous tone of her bestselling memoir, Hold Still, this new book reaffirms Mann as a unique and resonant voice for our times and is destined to become a classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrated throughout with photographs, journal entries, and letters that bring immediacy and poignancy to the narrative, Art Work is full of thought-provoking insights about the hazards of early promise; the unpredictable role of luck; the value of work, work, work, and more hard work; the challenges of rejection and distraction; the importance of risk-taking; and the rewards of knowing why and when you say yes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn sparkling prose and thoughtfully juxtaposed visuals and ephemera, Art Work is a generous, provocative, and compulsively readable exploration of creativity by one of our most original thinkers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover, 272 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54517893464348,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0870\/4264\/files\/Ali_Edits_8.jpg?v=1788551022","url":"https:\/\/www.lencollective.com\/products\/art-work-on-the-creative-life","provider":"Len Collective","version":"1.0","type":"link"}