'Ema (Nude on a staircase)' pulls the reader into the mind of Ema, the young woman descending the staircase in Gerhard Richter's 1966 painting, 'Ema'. Ema is a young artist who wants to discover what her greatest form of creativity is. She embarks on a journey of awakening, a quest for mastery that brings her into dialogue with her teachers and with her great mentors, the artists Gerhard Richter, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage. Ema explores her field, finds her own voice, considers the world an...

In deze essaybundel van Jeroen Lutters staat de verbeelding van de scheppende mens centraal. Dit is het verhaal van de mens die door zijn scheppende kracht in staat is chaos te veranderen in orde, vormeloosheid te transformeren in vorm en duisternis te veranderen in licht. Michelangelo’s werk, het hoogtepunt van de Renaissance, is de belangrijkste bron in dit boek. Michelangelo brengt het idee van de universele menselijke scheppende kracht in beeld, die zich kan manifesteren in ieder indivi...

The fourth instalment of the ‘Teaching Objects’ series revolves around “Creation”. In this art novella the reader is guided by Lisa, a young artist who is facing death. A dialogue with four works by the American painter Cy Twombly emerges from the question of life’s duration, and Lisa discovers the secret of creative speech. The protagonist’s thoughts bring her to Gaeta, a seaside town near Velia, the ancient Greek town in Italy, now named Elea – the place where the school of Pa...