Books by Enrique Martinez Celaya

World-renowned artist and celebrated teacher Enrique Martinez Celaya shares his views and advice on the art-making process, the development of a practice, the management of obstacles, and the day-to-day choices we must make in order to remain creative and honest. These concise teachings are relevant not only to artists but to anyone wishing to live a mindful, productive life.

This collection, spanning nearly a decade of artistic activity, features selections of writings that trace the intellectual influences and track the development of one of the more formidable and productive minds in the contemporary art world.

This collection, spanning two decades of artistic activity, features selections of writings tracing the intellectual influences and development of one of the more formidable and productive minds in the contemporary art world. These writings comprise public lectures, essays, interviews, correspondence with artists, critics, and scholars, artist statements, blog posts, and journal entries.

Enrique Martinez Celaya's blog, Bad Time for Poetry, began on August 24, 2007, and ended on May 25, 2009. In the emergence of the literary genre of the blog, it existed as an antiblog, showing how this literary genre can be used to cultivate and preserve cultural commentary. Martinez Celaya's blog is now preserved in this complete compilation of his posts.