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“The title of Adam Moss's book, The Work of Art, is of course a double entendre.”
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“In my book, I mean, everybody remembers their childhood as lonely, of course, but it is definitely true that one after another they described childhoods of isolation and of need, and then something came along to fill that need; among other things, they learn to talk to themselves—this is a big theme of my book.”
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“So he needed to find something else to make something that he would be good at, and that's how he came to write The Work of Art, a book about how other creative people make something from nothing.”
Discussed
“For I think the book is a bit of, not a smoke and mirror, but a bit of sleight of hand in that it's called The Work of Art, and it's plainly about the process of making creative things, and it's plainly about what it took for those creators to even get to the point where they were able to”
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“His book is called 'The Work of Art,' although it might just as easily have been called 'The Art of Work.'”
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“so he begins asking them and the result is his new book the work of art how something comes from nothing”