Book Review | Tortured Artists Christopher Zara

Book Review | Tortured Artists Christopher Zara 

“If pain and suffering are necessary ingredients for great art, then great art gives us a reason for pain and suffering”

So if you would like to know what this book is all about, above lines says it all (in brief). This book consists of profiles about 50 different artists, writers, poets, thinkers, pop singers, painters, filmmakers etc. & if you do have a you’ll definitely learn something about the ones you know less about earlier.

It consists of 2 major parts:

1.   The pain & suffering yet the creativity the passion and the world of isolation they lived in.

2.   A brief & deliberately random history of pain, suffering, & artistic triumph via timeline (starting from 25,000 BC Cave Painting emerge in Paleolithic Europe to AD timeline artists like Heath Ledger who was found dead in his SOHO loft).

Zara justifies & makes a case more convincing that pain and art surely do have a very strong connection.

“Your Elevation requires your isolation” & I can connect this point with every artist Zara with the help of Robbie Lee’s Illustration describes about.

“I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time”

                                                           Josh Belushi (1949-1982)

So a well-researched book with excellent tragic stories of extremely successful their lives which more often than not, unfortunately succumbed to them in the end.

 “Great art comes from Great Pain”

SAD BUT TRUE

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