Description
Free Play is directed toward people in any field who want to contact, honor, and strengthen their own creative powers. It integrates material from a wide variety of sources among the arts, sciences, and spiritual traditions of humanity. Filled with unusual quotes, amusing and illuminating anecdotes, and original metaphors, it reveals how inspiration arises within us, how that inspiration may be blocked, derailed or obscured by certain unavoidable facts of life, and how finally it can be liberated - how we can be liberated - to speak or sing, write or paint, dance or play, with our own authentic voice.
The whole enterprise of improvisation in life and art, of recovering free play and awakening creativity, is about being true to ourselves and our visions. It brings us into direct, active contact with boundless creative energies that we may not even know we had.
Author: Stephen Nachmanovitch
Publisher: Tarcherperigee
Published: 05/01/1991
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.16w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780874776317
ISBN10: 0874776317
BISAC Categories:
- Self-Help | Motivational & Inspirational
- Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
- Self-Help | Creativity
About the Author
Stephen Nachmanovitch is a musician, author, computer artist, and educator. He is an improvisational violinist, and writes and teaches about improvisation, creativity, and systems approaches in many fields of activity