Art Work : On the Creative Life Art Work : On the Creative Life

Art Work : On the Creative Life

    • 4.3 • 3 Ratings
    • $9.99

Publisher Description

The much-anticipated new book by artist and New York Times bestselling author Sally Mann about the challenges and transcendent pleasures of the creative process

“Erudite, frank, and funny.” —Amor Towles, bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and The Lincoln Highway

Art Work, by photographer and writer Sally Mann, offers a spellbinding mix of wild and illuminating stories, practical (and some impractical) advice, and life lessons.

Written in the same direct, fearless, and occasionally outrageous tone of her bestselling memoir, Hold Still, this new book reaffirms Mann as a unique and resonant voice for our times and is destined to become a classic.

With immediacy and poignancy to the narrative, Art Work is full of thought-provoking insights about the hazards of early promise; the unpredictable role of luck; the value of work, work, work, and more hard work; the challenges of rejection and distraction; the importance of risk-taking; and the rewards of knowing why and when you say yes.

In sparkling prose, Art Work is a generous, provocative, and compulsively readable exploration of creativity by one of our most original thinkers.

This audiobook contains a supplemental PDF.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
NARRATOR
SM
Sally Mann
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
08:03
hr min
RELEASED
2025
September 9
PUBLISHER
Recorded Books, Inc.
SIZE
367.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Art_Dog ,

Illuminating

Another exceptionally honest book by photographer Sally Mann about her creative process and righting distractions. She also did an excellent job with the audiobook, which feels more like a one-on-one conversion than a reading. Only drawback is that the author makes repeated references to a PDF that was supposed to accompany the audiobook version, but which was NOT included with the audiobook purchased through Apple Books.

1957Isetta ,

No photos in a book about photos

If you want to buy a book about taking photos when no photos are available to view (no PDF included in Apple audiobook) and you only have the author describing them to you, then have at it. It takes a lot of joy out of her story without seeing the photos she’s constantly referring to. I was disappointed.

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