All books using the keywords: Tim Holmes

Where lives the inception of creative genius? Honoré de Balzac explored one path to it in his 1845 short story "The Unknown Masterpiece" in which an old, honored artist, peering through a young woman like a window, struggles to find that mysterious creative angel behind art. The tale questions the source of genius and meaning of success in the artistic realm. When contemporary sculptor Tim Holmes discovered Balzac's story with its haunted longing and surprise ending, it seemed to perfectly match a series of drawings he'd contended with in his own parallel search as a retiring "famous" artist, hunting for the true Muse of Art that underlies human longing for the transcendent. Tim Hol ...