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Art Matters: Because Your Imagination can Change the World
Neil Gaiman
Synopsis "Art Matters: Because Your Imagination can Change the World"
A stunning and timely creative call-to-arms combining four extraordinary written pieces by Neil Gaiman illustrated with the striking four-color artwork of Chris Riddell."The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before."--Neil GaimanDrawn from Gaiman's trove of published speeches, poems, and creative manifestos, Art Matters is an embodiment of this remarkable multi-media artist's vision--an exploration of how reading, imagining, and creating can transform the world and our lives.Art Matters bring together four of Gaiman's most beloved writings on creativity and artistry: "Credo," his remarkably concise and relevant manifesto on free expression, first delivered in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings"Make Good Art," his famous 2012 commencement address delivered at the Philadelphia University of the Arts"Making a Chair," a poem about the joys of creating something, even when words won't come"On Libraries," an impassioned argument for libraries that illuminates their importance to our future and celebrates how they foster readers and daydreamersFeaturing original illustrations by Gaiman's longtime illustrator, Chris Riddell, Art Matters is a stirring testament to the freedom of ideas that inspires us to make art in the face of adversity, and dares us to choose to be bold.
Neil Gaiman ha alcanzado la fama como autor de libros, novelas gráficas, relatos cortos y películas para públicos de todas las edades.
Entre sus títulos más notables se hallan The Sandman, el innovador cómic que alcanzó el primer puesto en la lista de los libros más vendidos de The New York Times, y que fue merecedor de nueve Premios Eisner y del World Fantasy Award en la categoría de Mejor historia corta; El libro del cementerio, primera obra en ganar a un tiempo la medalla Newberry y la medalla Carnegie; American Gods, que en breve será adaptada a la pequeña pantalla en Estados Unidos; y El océano al final del camino, que en 2013 ganó el National Book Award al Libro del Año en Gran Bretaña.
La adaptación cinematográfica de Cómo hablar con chicas en fiestas, dirigida por John Cameron Mitchell, llegará a los cines en 2017.
Nacido en Gran Bretaña, Neil reside actualmente en EE. UU. con su esposa, la escritora y vocalista Amanda Palmer, y junto al hijo que tienen en común, Anthony.
