Creativity

In the vein of The Creative Habit and The Artists Way a manifesto on the creative process from a master of the impossible.Since well before his epic (and illegal) 1974 walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center Philippe Petit had become an artist who answered first to the demands of his craftand not just on the high wire but also as a magician street juggler visual artist builder and writer. He was a rebel and an autodidact cultivating the attitudes resources and techniques to tackle even seemingly impossible feats. His outlaw sensibility spawned a unique approach to the creative processan approach he shares with characteristic enthusiasm irreverence and originality in Creativity: The Perfect Crime.. With the reader as his accomplice Petit reveals fresh and unconventional ways of going about the artistic endeavor from generating and shaping ideas to practicing problem-solving and ultimately pulling off the coup itselfexecuting a finished work. His strategies and insights will resonate with performers of every stripe (actors musicians dancers) practitioners of the non-performing arts (writers artists) professionals in search of new ways of meeting challenges and individuals simply engaged in the art of living creatively.