Vogel's Book Now on CD!

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Southern California artist, Larry Vogel, has developed a clear exposition of how to accept the challenge of a life of self-exploration through willful acts of creation. Going on the assumption that we are innately creative but in need of some encouragement and guidance, Vogel draws upon psychologists G. Wallis and Jacob Getzel’s “Five Stages of Creativity” — First Insight, Saturation, Incubation, Illumination, and Verification — which provide the reader with mind exercises and examples of each stage drawn from his own creative experiences.

Vogel takes us chapter by chapter through these stages. First Insight is a passionate connection to our initial subject or problem; Saturation involves information gathering from diverse sources; Incubation pertains to pondering (both conscious and unconscious) the problem; this inward journey often leads to a sudden moment of enlightenment or Illumination in which the solution is envisioned; and, finally, Verification, the most difficult stage: acting, a doing in which one makes the unseen, seen. Ideation is realized in artifact.

Although Vogel’s book targets the fledgling artist, giving him or her tools with which to unblock creative insights, collateral damage is done to every person’s tendency toward mental inertia and fear of exercising one’s imagination.

Excerpt from the Foreword by James R. Hugunin, American Critic, Artist, and Professor of Art History, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Creativity/The Seeker's Journey now on CD

$20 plus tax & shipping

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To order go to www.lavogel.com/book

or contact Larry Vogel at vogelart@cox.net

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