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The Mess That Made Them : How History's Greatest Artists Failed, Floundered, and Made Something Brilliant Anyway.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pozzi, Ryan T.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2026.
- Summary:
- An inspiring look at iconic creators who weren't born geniuses but persisted through rejection, fear, and crisis-an empowering guide for anyone striving to make meaningful work against the odds.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Author's Note
- Prelude
- Refusal as a Beginning
- Caravaggio
- Modest Mussorgsky
- Oscar Wilde
- Frédéric Chopin
- The Price Tag of Vision
- Pablo Picasso
- James Baldwin
- Francisco Goya
- Mary Shelley
- Survival as Art
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Yayoi Kusama
- Interlude: Frank Auerbach, Recursive Self-Portrait in Layers
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Working in the Future's Shadow
- Virginia Woolf
- An Open Letter to Grant Wood
- Interlude: Artist Statement by Kazimir Malevich
- Claude Debussy
- Creating from the Wreckage
- Suzanne Valadon
- Edvard Munch
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Anne Sexton
- Legacy on Its Own Terms
- Marcel Duchamp
- Agatha Christie
- Interlude: The Critics Speak, Georgia O'Keeffe Answers
- An Open Letter to Josef Strauss
- Coda
- Sources and Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9798216382485
- OCLC:
- 1591751238
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