12 Books About Innovation & Integrity in Creative Practice
We’ve curated a list of 12 books connected to the theme of our third series of The Sessions which focuses on working at the intersection of the creative arts.
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Our Picks
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Co-Art: Artists on Creative Collaboration by Ellen Mara De Wachter
Twenty-five leading artist duos and collectives give insight into how and why to work collaboratively.
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Supporting Staged Intimacy by Alexis Black and Tina M. Newhauser
A Practical Guide for Theatre Creatives, Managers, and Crew.
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How To Not Always Be Working by Marlee Grace
A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care. This guidebook is filled with practical advice to help you curb your obsessions and build boundaries between your work, your job, and your life.
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Creative Thinking by Jonathan Firth
Practical evidence-based strategies to boost ideas, productivity and flow. This book will guide you through the stages of the creative process, from idea generation to effective work habits.
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Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart by Julia Cameron
Whether you are already in a creative enterprise or just beginning to nurture your own, this book provides the innovative and practical tools for mining the vein of gold within all of us.
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Make Brilliant Work: Lessons on Creativity Innovation & Success by Rob Judkins
Suggesting you don’t have to be brilliant to produce brilliant work, this is an inspiring guide to unlocking your creative potential, showing you the methods and techniques that will transform your efforts and help you achieve your best ever work.
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The Art of Screen Adaptation by Alistair Owens
How exactly do you transfer a story from the page to the screen? Alistair Owen puts questions about creative process, expectation and author input to some of the top names in screenwriting.
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The Future of The New by Thijs Lijster
Can artistic innovation still function as a source of critique? Should we look for alternative ways to innovate, or look for other (new!) ways to talk about the new? The Future of the New attempts to set the agenda for the debate on the function, value and future of artistic innovation.
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Creativity and Copyright by John L. Geiger & Howard Suber
Legal Essentials for Screenwriters and Creative Artists looking to succeed as industry professionals. This book will help you to understand the laws that govern creativity, idea-making, and selling, and learn how to protect themselves and their works from the legal quagmires they may encounter.
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Transformational Innovation in the Creative and Cultural Industries by Alison Rieple, Robert Defillippi, David Schreiber.
A resource to help artists and creatives understand how innovation can be a productive tool for transforming their own creative and cultural industry practice and performance during a period of rapid technological change and unprecedented societal challenge.
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Offline Matters by Jess Henderson
A handbook for anybody experiencing digital overload in their lives and creative work.
OFFLINE MATTERS CARDS - TRUTH OR DARE?: A Tool for Less-Digital Creativity. Like the much-loved classic game of Truth or Dare?, the goal is to (re)introduce elements of experimentation and play that press against the dry digitality typical of creative work today.
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Art In The After Culture by Ben Davis
Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy. A series of essays arguing that reckoning with the new realities of art, technology, activism, and the media, can help us weather the super-storms of the future.