Leonard Koren
Description
This is a streamlined, straightforward overview of the mental processes involved in creating aesthetic works such as art, design, and similar endeavors. It offers a refreshingly clear and unsentimental perspective on the creative process from an eminent creator. The book’s photographs and design exemplify the sophisticated outcomes that the creative process can achieve at its highest level.
About
Leonard Koren, who trained as an artist and architect, was a founding member of The Los Angeles Fine Arts Squad, a wall-painting collective. In 1976, he created WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, an avant-garde publication seminal in the development of postmodern aesthetics. Koren has subsequently written numerous books about art, design, and aesthetics. Among them are Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (the classic volume on the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete), What Artists Do, and Musings of a Curious Aesthete.