Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Bound for Schools & Libraries)

Brief Description: A manifesto for the digital age, this is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and illustrations, exercises, and examples will put readers directly in touch with their artistic side. Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references.; Offers advice and encouragement to help readers foster creativity and be artistically productive in a wide variety of endeavors. Brief Description: For use in schools and libraries only. Offers advice and encouragement to help readers foster creativity and be artistically productive in a wide variety of endeavors. Publisher Marketing: You don't need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That's the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto for the digital age, "Steal Like an Artist" is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and illustrations, exercises, and examples will put readers directly in touch with their artistic side. When Mr. Kleon was asked to address college students in upstate New York, he shaped his speech around the ten things he wished someone had told him when he was starting out. The talk went viral, and its author dug deeper into his own ideas to create "Steal Like an Artist," the book. The result is inspiring, hip, original, practical, and entertaining. And filled with new truths about creativity: Nothing is original, so embrace influence, col- lect ideas, and remix and re-imagine to discover your own path. Follow your interests wherever they take you. Stay smart, stay out of debt, and risk being boring--the creative you will need to make room to be wild and daring in your imagination. Review Citations:

SLJ Best Adult Bks 4 Teens 12/01/2012 pg. 38 (EAN 9780761169253, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Kleon, Austin Austin Kleon is a writer, cartoonist, and designer. His Newspaper Blackout poems have been featured on NPR's Morning Edition, in Toronto's National Post, and all over the Web. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Meghan.