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Saturday, 6 April 2013

Artist and Author, Makoto Fujimura's Top 5 Books on Creativity

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CHRISTIANITY TODAY
By Makoto Fujimura
Literature that reveals what art and beauty ought to be:
  1. "The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World" (Vintage) by Lewis Hyde 
  2. "On Beauty and Being Just" (Princeton University Press) by Elaine Scarry 
  3. "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art" (Harold Shaw Publishers) by Madeleine L'Engle 
  4. "The Mind of the Maker" (HarperOne) by Dorothy L. Sayers 
  5. "Four Quartets" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) by T. S. Eliot
Makoto Fujimura, artist and author of "Refractions: A Journey of Faith, Art, and Culture" (NavPress, 2009)
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