A landmark volume of interviews with today's most exciting and innovative cross-disciplinary artistsFollowing the success of his On Creativity, John Tusa's new book draws on his acclaimed BBC Radio 3 series of interviews with a range of internationally distinguished artists. In video, music, dance, theatre, architecture, painting and sculpture, these remarkable practitioners work in forms that challenge and break traditional limits, crossing the boundaries between the arts to create new ways of expression and new kinds of meaning in a world transformed by multimedia. An invaluable insider's guide to their work and lives, the book includes an incisive introductory essay by Tusa himself.
Interviewees: Bill Viola, Michal Rovner, Bernardo Bertolucci, Atom Egoyan, Heiner Goebbels, Simon McBurney, Gilbert and George, Merce Cunningham, William Forsythe, Anish Kapoor, Renzo Piano, Rachel Whiteread and Michael Craig-Martin.
Praise for On Creativity:
"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" The Independent
"He 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