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Welcome to the Bookstore's Creativity and Art Class Shelf. Our ever-expanding shelves will be very much influenced by you, so please give us your opinion. E-mail us with any new categories you feel would be of interest to others, feel free to recommend your favorites and send us your reviews ... they'll be included here. Orders are shipped within 2-3 days unless otherwise specified and, of course, your transactions are secure. Enjoy your browse through Just Art Books!
Art is a Way of Knowing
by Pat B. Allen
Paperback, 204 Pages
Published by Shambhala Publications 5/1/95
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Synopsis: With practical exercises, inspirational guidance and the author's own experiences as an artist and art therapist, this book shows how creativity can be a path to self discovery. Allen includes information on materials and methods, plus ideas for projects using art to help express emotions.
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The Artist's Way Morning Pages Journal:
A Companion Workbook to The Artist's Way
by Mark A. Bryan and Julia Cameron
Paperback
Published by J P Tarcher 1997
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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
by Mark Bryan and Julia Cameron
in Paperback, 219 pages
Published by J P Tarcher 7/1/92
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Synopsis: Asserting that creative expression is the natural direction of life, noted Hollywood screenwriter and director Julia Cameron presents an exciting method for artists to recover their creativity from limiting beliefs, self-sabotage, inattention, fear, jealousy, guilt, addictions, and other forces that inhibit the creative process.
Excerpts from Readers:
"The Artist's Way" is a book that will help to free and activate your creative energy. Author Julia Cameron outlines a twelve-week program to clear away the self-defeating "editor" that sits on your shoulder whispering in your ear, reinforcing all the doubts and fears that inhibit your creativity. After reading this book you will feel energized to write, paint, sew, sculpt, dance, sing or to flow whichever path your creative spirit chooses.
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The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart
by Julia Cameron
Hardcover Edition
Published by J P Tarcher 9/1/96
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Synopsis: Cameron draws from her remarkable teaching experience to help readers reach out into ever-broadening creative horizons. The Vein of Gold features inspiring essays on the creative process and more than 100 imaginative, engaging, and energizing tasks that involve the reader in the "inner play", leading to authentic growth, renewal and healing.
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Freeing the Creative Spirit: Drawing on the Power of Art
to Tap the Magic and Wisdom Within
by Adriana Diaz
Paperback, 223 pages
Published by Harper-Collins 10/1/92
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Synopsis: A stimulating, art-as-spirituality guide that integrates personal healing and renewal in a context of multi- cultural awareness, spiritual depth, and creative meditation -- for artists and non-artists alike. Richly interwoven with art exercises, meditations, and multi-cultural ceremonies and rituals. Four-color insert.
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Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous Expression
by Michell Cassou in Paperback, 186 pages
Published by J P Tarcher, 1/1/96 List: $16.95 -- Our Price: $13.56
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Synopsis: With eloquence and simplicity, this deeply involving approach to using the creative process as a tool for self-discovery encourages the reader to journey inward toward his or her authentic self and find the unique intuition waiting there. Through lively interviews with students, the authors explore painting as a practice that facilitates the ecstacy of unfettered expression.
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Making Room for Making Art:
A Thoughtful and Practical Guide to Bringing the Pleasure of Artistic
Expression Back into Your Life
by Sally Warner
Paperback, 213 pages
Published by Chicago Review Press 5/1/94
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Creating from the Spirit : Living Each Day As a Creative Act
by Dan Wakefield, Cheryl Woodruff (Editor)
Hardcover, 321 pages
Published by Ballantine Books (Thrd) 6/1/96
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Reviews and Commentary for Creating from the Spirit:
I keep this book on my nightstand ... just pick a page and read. It's honest and inspiring and has some wonderful exercises for exploring your own creativity. Editor, Art's New View
Synopsis: Award-winning journalist and author Dan Wakefield offers a work which reveals how artists, writers, musicians, and creative people of all kinds--hampered by low self-esteem, unrealistic expectations, stultifying routines, or the double demons of money and artistic standing -- compartmenalize their lives into the "creative" and the "commonplace".
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The Story of Your Life : Writing a Spiritual Autobiography
by Dan Wakefield Paperback
Published by Beacon Pr, 9/1/90
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Synopsis: Dan Wakefield, author of the acclaimed autobiography Returning, has encouraged people across the country to tell their stories. The Story of Your Life presents a step-by-step approach to telling that tale, a process to help readers explore their past and understand their present.
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Welcome to the Bookstore's Creativity/Art Class Shelf. Our ever-expanding shelves are very much influenced by you, so please give us your opinion. E-mail us with any new categories you feel would be of interest to others, feel free to recommend your favorites and send us your reviews ... they'll be included here. Orders are shipped within 2-3 days unless otherwise specified. Enjoy your browse through Just Art Books!