- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Red Wheel; illustrated edition edition (Dec 1 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1590030168
- ISBN-13: 978-1590030165
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 19.2 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 295 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #147,809 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Spirit Taking Form is a practical book. It offers lists of materials to work with and exercises and meditation techniques to help everyone bring out their inner voice. It includes specific meditations for healing the inner critic, cultivating imagination, and finding one's artistic heart. Its meditations and exercises can be done many times, and each time they can bring the reader new and richer experiences and deeper insights.
Throughout the book Azara shares her own story and the inspirations that have made her a successful artist. Using an old Sicilian folk tale taught to her by her grandfather, she has always sought to look at life with one eye open out to the world and the other closed, or turned inward. It is this skill more than any other that she seeks to engender in the reader through exercises such as "The Visual Diary."
Learning and teaching about art from a place of spirit calls us to a challenge, a challenge to look at something very familiar, yet distant and remote. Spirit Taking Form offers insight into artistic expression and how it can be applied to life as a catalyst for growth, change, and expression.
Throughout the book Azara shares her own story and the inspirations that have made her a successful artist. Using an old Sicilian folk tale taught to her by her grandfather, she has always sought to look at life with one eye open out to the world and the other closed, or turned inward. It is this skill more than any other that she seeks to engender in the reader through exercises such as "The Visual Diary."
Learning and teaching about art from a place of spirit calls us to a challenge, a challenge to look at something very familiar, yet distant and remote. Spirit Taking Form offers insight into artistic expression and how it can be applied to life as a catalyst for growth, change, and expression.
About the Author
Nancy Azara is a working artist who has been teaching for thirty-five years. She came of age as an artist and a woman during the feminist movement of the 1960s. In the process, she began a lifelong spiritual practice that led her to teach and do psychic healing circles. In Spirit Taking Form, her first book, she combines the two.
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The artwork you make during our sessions together is your own personal information for getting you started or for reexamining your forms. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
The artwork you make during our sessions together is your own personal information for getting you started or for reexamining your forms. Read the first page
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Spirit Taking Form: Making a Spiritual Practice of Making Ar,
By Melissa Wolf, Women's Studio Center (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Spirit Taking Form (Paperback)
As the Executive Director of Women's Studio Center I find this book to be a great boon to artists and those thinking about becoming an artist. It has elements of "The Artists Way" with more substance and some biographical details.Nancy Azara was the Director of the New York Feminist Art Institute, a wonderful women's art organization that closed in 1990. She taught a class "Visual Diaries" which included elements of consciousness raising and art or creating an "artists book". I think her ideas and exercises come from this class. It's a wonderful creative motivator !
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should be required reading for every..,
By Gayla Bjork (Quebec) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Spirit Taking Form (Paperback)
This book helps me find a place where I can look at things quietly.I particularly like Nancy's personal writing style, in which she invites the reader into the artmaking process in a deceptively simple way. She uses the conflicts and complexities of her own existence to create art which is complete within the context of a real life.
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Mind, Art and Soul,
By A Customer
This review is from: Spirit Taking Form (Paperback)
This book gave me an insight into the creative process that I had never experienced before. It was just as Gloria Steinem said "...how to meditate our way into our imaginations & to give our thoughts & feelings visible form" this book gave me a new found way to discovering my self and the artwork I produce. Thank you so much Nancy, I really appreciate what your book has done for me and hope that others find it as rejuvenating to the soul as I did.
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