INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Erudite frank and funny" - Amor Towles "This book will
make you brave" - Margaret Renkl The much-anticipated new book by artist and New York Times
bestselling author Sally Mann about the challenges and transcendent pleasures of the creative
process Art Work by photographer and writer Sally Mann offers a spellbinding mix of wild
and illuminating stories practical (and some impractical) advice and life lessons for artists
and writers-or anyone interested in the creative path. Written in the same frank fearless and
occasionally outrageous tone of her bestselling memoir Hold Still this new book reaffirms
Mann as a unique and resonant voice for our times and is destined to become a classic.
Illustrated throughout with photographs journal entries and letters that bring immediacy and
poignancy to the narrative Art Work is full of thought-provoking insights about the hazards of
early promise the unpredictable role of luck the value of work work work and more hard
work the challenges of rejection and distraction the importance of risk-taking and the
rewards of knowing why and when you say yes. In sparkling prose and thoughtfully juxtaposed
visuals and ephemera Art Work is a generous provocative and compulsively readable
exploration of creativity by one of our most original thinkers.
