On Creativity
Interviews exploring the process
John Tusa
Remarkable and revealing interviews exploring the process of creativity with the great artists, composers and writers of our time
"This is the joy of John Tusa's book of interviews...It gives us the opportunity to consider side-by-side the outlooks of artists of different disciplines: novelist, architect, poet, composer, painter, sculptor, photographer, film-maker" Independent
In this series of interviews drawn from his acclaimed BBC Radio 3 series, John Tusa talks to some of the leading creative minds of our time: Howard Hodgkin, Antony Caro, Elliot Carter, Eve Arnold, David Sylvester, Nicholas Grimshaw, Gyorgy Ligeti, Milos Forman, Paula Rego, Harrison Birtwistle, Frank Auerbach, Tony Harrison and Muriel Spark - together with two stimulating essays by John Tusa, on creativity, and on interviewing.
With three painters, three composers, a sculptor, a photographer, a playwright, a critic, an architect, a film director, a novelist and a poet, the book is an indispensable guide to our contemporary art and artists. "He (Tusa) is an enormously skilled interviewer, able to arouse, provoke and challenge his subjects without menacing them... His astonishing interview with Paula Rego is a good example of his skill" TLS
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About John Tusa John Tusa was managing director of the BBC's World Service from 1986-92 and since 1995 has been the managing director of London's Barbican Centre, one of Britain's most powerful centres of artistic presentation and innovation. He is the author of numerous books on culture and the arts, including Conversations with the World (1990) and Art Matters: Reflecting on Culture (1999).
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