Cool books written by artists about life, creative process,etc

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>>9891795
I'ts a pretty wide genre. One of my go to books for primary sources on art is Art in Theory. It's got manifestos, key reviews, essays by critics, etc. It'll walk you through 20th century art, if read chronologically, but you might want something like Gardner's art history text book to accompany it, in case you aren't familiar with a particular movement or artist.

Some of my favorites are the Futurist Manifestos, Surrealist Manifestos, Dada stuff.

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>>9891824
Also, this is a really great collection of Surrealist Manifestos, and a nice introduction by Andre Breton, reflecting on the collection and compiling them into one book.

>>9891824
thx a lot will look into that asap.

>>9891795
Robert Bresson's Notes on Cinematography is a slim volume of his maxims and thoughts about filmmaking. Even if you haven't seen any of his films (which you should sometime), it's still an interesting book about visual narrative.

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>>9891824
>1170 pages

>>9892282
It's reference material. There must be like 400+ authors or some shit in there. I haven't read all of it, I've just read a lot of it.

If you are looking for any important manifesto, article, critical review, exhibition essay, etc from the last 100 years, there is a good chance that book has it.

>>9892272
Thx.
I actually watched many of his movies. Pickpocket it's really good.

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chuck jones gets the hugh kenner treatment and it's pretty good, not as good as pound's but still up there.