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Free play : improvisation in life and art / Stephen Nachmanovitch.

By: Nachmanovitch, Stephen.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1990Description: ix, 208 p. : Ill ; 21 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 9780874776317 .Subject(s): Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) | Improvisation (Music)DDC classification: 153.35
Contents:
Inspiration and time's flow -- The vehicle -- The stream -- The muse -- Mind at play -- Disappearing -- Sex and violins -- Practice -- The power of limits -- The power of mistakes -- Playing together -- Form unfolding -- Childhood's end -- Vicious circles -- The judging spectre -- Surrender -- Patience -- Ripening -- Eros and creation -- Quality -- Art for life's sake -- Heartbreakthrough.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending 153.35 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00178555
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Free Play is about the inner sources of spontaneous creation. It is about why we create and what we learn when we do. It is about the flow of unhindered creative energy: the joy of making art in all its varied forms.

An international bestseller and beloved classic, Free Play is an inspiring and provocative book, directed toward people in any field who want to contact, honor, and strengthen their own creative powers. It reveals how inspiration arises within us, how that inspiration may be blocked, derailed or obscured, and how finally it can be liberated--how we can be liberated--to speak or sing, write or paint, dance or play, with our own authentic voice.

Stephen Nachmanovitch, a pioneer in free improvisation, integrates material from a wide variety of sources among the arts, sciences, and spiritual traditions of humanity, drawing on unusual quotes, amusing and illuminating anecdotes, and original metaphors. The whole enterprise of improvisation in life and art, of recovering free play and awakening creativity, is about being true to ourselves and our visions. Free Play brings us into direct, active contact with boundless creative energies that we may not even know we had.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-206).

Inspiration and time's flow -- The vehicle -- The stream -- The muse -- Mind at play -- Disappearing -- Sex and violins -- Practice -- The power of limits -- The power of mistakes -- Playing together -- Form unfolding -- Childhood's end -- Vicious circles -- The judging spectre -- Surrender -- Patience -- Ripening -- Eros and creation -- Quality -- Art for life's sake -- Heartbreakthrough.

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Table of Contents   Title Page Copyright Page Epigraph Acknowledgements Introduction   The Sources Inspiration and Time's Flow The Vehicle The Stream The Muse Mind at Play Disappearing   The Work Sex and Violins Practice The Power of Limits The Power of Mistakes Playing Together Form Unfolding   Obstacles and Openings Childhood's End Vicious Circles The Judging Spectre Surrender Patience Ripening   The Fruits Eros and Creation Quality Art for Life's Sake Heartbreakthrough   Notes Bibliography Illustrations About the Author Most Tarcher/Putnam books are available at special quantity discounts for bulk purchases for sales promotions, premiums, fund-raising, and educational needs. Special books or book excerpts also can be created to fit specific needs. For details, write Putnam Special Markets 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014     Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam a member of Penguin Putnam Inc. 375 Hudson Street New York, NY 10014 www.penguinputnam.com The author thanks the following for their permission to reprint from copyrighted works.   Constance Crown, for Hands by Rico Lebrun. Walter Gruen, for Musica Solar by Remedios Varo. Ben Berzinsky, for his photograph of a Carlo Bergonzi violin, c. 1770. Grateful thanks to the late Arnold Fawcus of the Trianon Press, Paris, for permission to photograph his magnificent William Blake books. Artist Rights Society, Inc., for Two Children Drawing and Dawn Song by Pablo Picasso. © ARS N.Y./SPADEM. Charles E. Tuttle Co., Tokyo, Japan, for Tomikichiro Tokuriki's Riding the Bull Home. North Point Press, for excerpt from Wendell Berry's essay, Poetry and Marriage. For M. C. Escher's Encounter © 1989 M. C. Escher Heirs/Cordon Art, Baarn, Holland. Excerpts from "Burnt Norton" and "Little Gidding" in Four Quartets, © 1943 by T. S. Eliot and renewed 1971 by Esme Valerie Eliot, . Excerpt from The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life. Introduction by Carl Jung, translated and explained by Richard Wilhelm, . Excerpt from A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, © 1929 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. and renewed 1957 by Leonard Woolf, . Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Nachmanovitch, Stephen. Free play; improvisation in life and art / Stephen Nachmanovitch   p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN: 9781440673085 1. Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) 2. Improvisation (Music) I. Title. BH301.C84N-49303 153.3'5-dc2O CIP   Copyright © 1990 by Stephen Nachmanovitch Paint as you like and die happy. HENRY MILLER Acknowledgments The following are only a few of the many friends and colleagues whose support, criticism, ideas, and other contributions were vital to the creation of this book: Excerpted from Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovitch All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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Stephen Nachmanovitch performs and teaches internationally as an improvisational violinist, and at the intersections of performing and multimedia arts, philosophy, and ecology. In the 1970s he was a pioneer in free improvisation on violin, viola, and electric violin. He has presented lectures, masterclasses and workshops at many universities, and has had numerous appearances on radio, television and festivals. He is the author of two books on the creative process: Free Play and The Art of Is . He lives with his family in Virginia.

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