Artists on Creative Processes

This book should serve as a source of inspiration to help creative people overcome the obstacles that can appear during the production process. Featuring 25 genre-defying artists working outside the mainstream, it takes readers inside their work spaces and challenges them to focus on details that help reveal some of the secrets of their creative activity. In addition to the many images of their work, the artists, in their own words, shed light on the creative processes that made them possible. They explain why they create, what they are trying to say and how they look to literature, sculpture, music, theatre or scenes from everyday life to overcome creative blocks and self-doubt and stay inspired and productive. Through their words and work, the contemporary painters, sculptors, photographers and textile artists that appear in this insightful and visually sump-tuous book transmit the emotion, energy, individuality and irony that defines their artistic production and the creative processes behind it. Some artists included: Alexandra Duprez, Eltono, Soeurs Siamoises, Hermann Josef Hack, Gaia Bernasconi, Luca Giovagnoli. Johanna Schaible, Nicholas Stevenson, Sophie Woodrow, Michael McGrath, Cristina Sitja.

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Miguel Ángel Pérez Arteaga is a graphic designer and cofounder of the design studio Batidora de Ideas. He is the author and illustrator of children's books published in Spain, Mexico and Brazil. His books include Graphic Designers on Creative Processes, Illustrators on Creative Process, Isidro Ferrer: About Nothing and The Art of Jesús Cisneros, all published by Hoaki Books. He participated in the exhibitions «Ready to Read - Book Design from Spain», a selection of the best books published in Spain, and «Ilustrísimos: An Overview of Children and Young Adults' Illustration in Spain» at the Bologna Fair. He has held numerous solo and group painting, photography and illustration exhibitions.