
Don't Call It Art
10 Ways to Create Like a Kid Again
Austin Kleon(Author)
Particular Books (Publisher)
Published on 9. June 2026
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-241-79959-8 (ISBN)
Description
Throw out the rules and rediscover the joy of creating - from the bestselling author of Steal Like an Artist
Feeling burnt out, distracted, and out of fresh ideas? In every creative person's life, there are times when you lose the energy, joy, and freedom you had when you were first starting out. From the recent art school graduate to the retiree searching for their creative third act, we all need help returning to the excitement, the sense of discovery and the raw creativity of a child at play.
In Don't Call It Art, best-selling author Austin Kleon shares ten rejuvenating lessons he learned from being a studio assistant to the artists closest to his heart: his two young sons. This is a creative liberation handbook for looking at the world with fresh eyes, unlearning what you've learned and making new leaps in your life and work.
Feeling burnt out, distracted, and out of fresh ideas? In every creative person's life, there are times when you lose the energy, joy, and freedom you had when you were first starting out. From the recent art school graduate to the retiree searching for their creative third act, we all need help returning to the excitement, the sense of discovery and the raw creativity of a child at play.
In Don't Call It Art, best-selling author Austin Kleon shares ten rejuvenating lessons he learned from being a studio assistant to the artists closest to his heart: his two young sons. This is a creative liberation handbook for looking at the world with fresh eyes, unlearning what you've learned and making new leaps in your life and work.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 158 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
406 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-79959-8 (9780241799598)
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06/2026
Penguin
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Person
Austin Kleon is a writer who draws and the New York Times best-selling author of a trilogy of illustrated books about creativity in the digital age: Steal Like an Artist, Show Your Work! and Keep Going. His books have sold nearly two million copies and have been translated into over thirty languages. In previous lives, he worked as a librarian, a web designer and an advertising copywriter.