The work of art : how something comes from nothing / Adam Moss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moss, Adam, Author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Psychology.

Art.

Genre:

works of art.

Art.

Informational works.

Physical Description:

424 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color) ; 25 cm

Other Title:

How something comes from nothing

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Press, [2024]

Summary:

"From former editor-in-chief of New York magazine Adam Moss, a collection of illuminating conversations examining the very personal, rigorous, complex, and elusive work of making art. What is the work of art? In this guided tour inside the artist's head, Adam Moss traces the evolution of transcendent novels, paintings, jokes, movies, songs, and more. Weaving conversations with some of the most accomplished artists of our time together with the journal entries, napkin doodles, and sketches that were their tools, Moss breaks down the work-the tortuous paths and artistic decisions-that led to great art. From first glimmers to second thoughts, roads not taken, crises, breakthroughs, on to one triumphant finish after another"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

You, where are you? / Kara Walker

Bread crumbs / Tony Kushner

The child's way / Roz Chast

Will your hand do the thing your mind wants? / Michael Cunningham

God flows through him / Moses Sumney

Later you'll understand / Sofia Coppola

And there it was / Susan Meiselas

A puzzle / Stephen Sondheim

Waiting / Louise Glück

You're never going to be someone else / Maria de Los Angeles

Tribe / Nico Muhly

Disappearing himself / Thomas Bartlett

The sperm bank and the scroll / Twyla Tharp

What did you do when you were a kid? / John Derian

Enough about me/What about me? / Barbara Kruger

What if Dr. Seuss fucked Maya Angelou? / David Mandel

There's only one way it could possibly be / Gregory Crewdson

The unconscious is waiting to see if you mean it / Marie Howe

What the hell could you ask Sinatra? / Gay Talese

A kind of derangement / Cheryl Pope

With beginner's eyes / Samin Nosrat

Brain, hand, pencil, paper / Joanna Quinn & Les Mills

Writing in the dark / Wesley Morris

There, I've killed it / Amy Sillman

Conjurer extraordinaire / Andrew Jarecki

The song on his phone / Rostam

Laugh here / Ira Glass

I am a portal / Simphiwe Ndzube

A "Rothko" on A1 / Dean Baquet & Tom Bodkin

Itchy little breakthroughs / Max Porter

Theory and fog / Elizabeth Diller

Here today, gone today / Ian Adelman, Calvin Seibert

The computer has a hand too / Tyler Hobbs

It is always harder / Marc Jacobs

Alter ego / Grady West

The brain is a slide carousel / Will Shortz

A map of her mind / Sheila Heti

I am begrudgingly on the wall / Gerald Lovell

Stay simple / Jody Williams & Rita Sodi

Don't hold back / Taylor Mac & Machine Dazzle

Arguing / David Simon

It's your book, you can do whatever you want / George Saunders

How great thou art / Suzan-Lori Parks.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Athenaeum copy: Gift of Guy G. Garrison.

Other Format:

Online version: Moss, Adam. Work of art

ISBN:

9780593297582

059329758X

OCLC:

1390776395