Ebook {Epub PDF} Letters to a Young Artist by Anna Deavere Smith

 · From "the most exciting individual in American theater" (Newsweek), here is Anna Deavere Smith's brass tacks advice to aspiring artists of all stripes. In vividly anecdotal letters to the young BZ, she addresses the full spectrum of issues that people starting out will face: from questions of confidence, discipline, and self-esteem, to fame, failure, and fear, to staying healthy, presenting 4/5(). In the manner of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Deavere Smith mentors her young artist over a period of five years, sharing her hard-won wisdom about the challenges and rewards of the artistic life. Drawing on her own life experiences as an actor, teacher, and playwright, Deavere Smith provides a motivating example for how to pursue one's art without compromise, while offering tips on everything . Letters to a young artist Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Share to Facebook. Share to Reddit. Letters to a young artist by Anna Deavere Smith. Publication date Topics Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- Miscellanea., Young artists -- Conduct of life -- User Interaction Count:

Smith is director of Anna Deavere Smith Works at the Aspen Institute - a place for artistic excellence and social change, dedicated to artists whose work shines a light on complex social issues. Anna Deavere Smith knows what it's like--the struggle of the artist, the cold night of the soul when sometimes you feel punished for being a visionary, and she gets a lot of it down on paaper in this book of letters modelled to a certain degree on Rilke's famous LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET. Letters to a young artist Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Share to Facebook. Share to Reddit. Letters to a young artist by Anna Deavere Smith. Publication date Topics Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- Miscellanea., Young artists -- Conduct of life -- Miscellanea.

Letters to a Young Artist. Anna Deavere Smith. Anchor Books, - Business Economics -. In the manner of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Deavere Smith mentors her young artist over a period of five years, sharing her hard-won wisdom about the challenges and rewards of the artistic life. Drawing on her own life experiences as an actor, teacher, and playwright, Deavere Smith provides a motivating example for how to pursue one's art without compromise, while offering tips on everything from how to stay healthy to building a diverse network of friends and professional alliances. Actress, Thespian, and writer Anna Deavere Smith (born Septem) wrote Letters to a Young Artist to an imagined mentee. Upon reading it, we all become her mentees. It presses energy and hope into the heart of the worried creative soul. I’m an actress and a playwright.