The Creative Act: A Way Of Being

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Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day and then ages out. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. He has made a practice of helping people transcend their self-imposed expectations in order to reconnect with a state of innocence from which the surprising becomes inevitable.

Over the years, as he has thought deeply about where creativity comes from and where it doesn't, he has learned that being an artist isn't about your specific output; it's about your relationship to the world. Creativity has a place in everyone's life, and everyone can make that place larger. In fact, there are few more important responsibilities.

The Creative Act is a beautiful and generous course of study that illuminates the path of the artist as a road we all can follow. It distils the wisdom gleaned from a lifetime's work into a luminous reading experience that puts the power to create moments - and lifetimes - of exhilaration and transcendence within closer reach for all of us.

'The legendary producer of artists from Adele to Black Sabbath, Johnny Cash to Jay-Z, distils the insights of a glittering career to reveal how to get the best out of musicians - and offers useful lessons for the rest of us in the process' - * Financial Times *

'An existential enquiry into the nature of creativity, art and being part of the human race . . . a deep look at the most fundamental of human impulses' - * Big Issue *

'A distillation of the wisdom Rubin has accrued over decades of bringing records to fruition . . . Seductive' - * Guardian *

SPECIFICATIONS:

Author:Rick Rubin - Рик Рубин

Publisher:Canongate Books

Language:English

Publication Date:2025

Number of pages:432 pst

Format:Paperback

Width:135 mm / 5,3'

Height:210 mm / 8,3'

Weight:427 g

ISBN:9781838858667