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CGAA Recommended Reading: Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon

The most inspiring advice on being creative!  Austin Kleon's Steal Like an Artist: “Skip about 10 years of trial and error as an artist.” —Christopher Moore  When asked to talk to students Austin Kleon wrote a simple list often things he wished he'd heard when he was their age: Steal like an artist has expanded into an illustrated guide to the creative life for writers, artists, entrepreneurs, designers, photographers, musicians, and anyone attempting to make things - art, a career, a life - in the digital age. Brief, direct, and visually interactive.

Introducing CGAA Recommended Reading. A new blog strand!

Hi Everyone, Whether it's your very first film review or those first speculative moments of your final dissertation, it's the start of a new academic year and pretty much everyone studying at university, of all years, is about to embark on an uncharted journey of self discovery and research which often involves climbing a few sets of stairs to the library so that you can discover new and exciting things about both the world and of yourselves. You're all like academic George Mallory's and Andrew Irvine's, but hopefully without the grisly, frozen demise! To avoid being stranded on the metaphoric Mount Everest of academic writing, the best trick to survive is to prepare yourself for the climb so you don't get caught in a tricky to navigate blizzard without the correct equipment. And that means books, and lots of them. While studying my MA, for the entirety of the year I carried around a canvas bag full of books which made up a quite sizable reading list ...