The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing

Art books are generally grandiose and pretentious. The Work of Art is one of those rare books that reveals all that goes into the making of paintings scripts sculpture whatever…it uses sketches drawing doodles scratches from a diary, interviews, photographs - all to good effect and gets to the heart of the art and the artist’s intention.

I wish there were more well known artists in here but still it's a very thorough study on how artists create their art, their routines etc.