Postcard Book | Why Are You Creative? | Seltmann Publishers

Why Are You Creative? is a collection of 100 postcards, gathered in a deluxe edition with a hard cover. It is a selection from the project Hermann Vaske worked on for more than thirty years: he put the same question to thousands of people from the creative world — why are you creative?

Thirty years, one question

Vaske put that question to artists, thinkers, scientists and film-makers, among them more than a hundred Oscar and Nobel laureates. What he gathered is not a theory of creativity but a stack of answers: artistic, philosophical, scientific and sometimes a joke.

Who is on the cards

This selection includes Bono, Nick Cave, Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Billy Wilder, Georg Baselitz, Julian Schnabel, Ed Ruscha and Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Each card belongs to one name, so you can also pick one out to send.

Who sat in front of his camera

Vaske is a director, writer and producer. As a director he worked with actors such as Dennis Hopper, Harvey Keitel, Peter Ustinov and John Cleese; as a producer he filmed with artists such as Marina Abramović, Shirin Neshat and Vivienne Westwood, and with figures such as Nelson Mandela, Stephen Hawking and the Dalai Lama. His films have screened at the festivals of Venice, Cannes, Toronto and Palm Springs.

A book and a hundred cards in one

The hard cover keeps it a book you leaf through and can leave out on the table, but the cards come out to be posted. The text is in English and German.

Specifications

• Brand: Seltmann Publishers
• Author: Hermann Vaske
• Editor: Oliver Seltmann
• Number of cards: 100
• Finish: hard cover, white
• Dimensions: W 11 | H 15 cm
• Language: English and German
• ISBN: 9783949070068

About Seltmann Publishers

Seltmann Publishers is a Berlin publishing house specialising in books and calendars on music, photography and graphic design. Alongside books it makes tear-off calendars of record sleeves, song lyrics and film quotes, and the Paperscraper notepads in the shape of buildings.

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