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What makes an artist? For eight years, award-winning travel writer Rory MacLean — of Berlin: Imagine a City fame — chased that question through almost one hundred interviews with working German artists. Wunderkind distills fifty of them into vivid, intimate portraits: painters and performers, bestselling novelists and the godfather of techno, a platinum rock star and a struggling caricaturist.
Berlin — Europe’s capital of reinvention after the fall of the Wall — is the setting for most of these conversations. Each reveals the passions and doubts, working methods and secret struggles behind a life in art: how a childhood obsession grows into a vocation, how success and failure shape a creative life, what keeps the free thinker going.
Not a catalog but a book about the artistic temperament itself. Essential for art lovers, Berlin devotees, and anyone fascinated by what it takes to make something the world has never seen.
What makes an artist? What forces drive a young man or woman to make their own creative journey — and where does it begin? For eight years, award-winning travel writer Rory MacLean (Berlin: Imagine a City, Stalin’s Nose) chased that question through almost one hundred interviews with working German artists. Wunderkind distills fifty of them into vivid, intimate portraits.
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nBerlin — Europe’s capital of reinvention — is the setting for most of these conversations. After the fall of the Wall, the city became a creative utopia crackling with pioneering energy, and MacLean’s subjects reflect it: painters and performers, bestselling novelists and the godfather of techno, a platinum rock star and a struggling caricaturist. Each reveals the passions and doubts, working methods and secret struggles behind a life in art.
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nRather than a catalog, this is a book about the artistic temperament itself — how a childhood obsession or spark of inspiration grows into a vocation, how success and failure shape a creative life, and what keeps the free thinker going.
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nPublished worldwide as an ebook by wander2wonder Press, Wunderkind is essential reading for art lovers, Berlin devotees, and anyone fascinated by what it takes to make something the world has never seen.
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