Full name: PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives

Author: Frank Warren Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Art, Humor, Psychology, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads OpenLibrary Amazon Google Books LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780060899196 9780061859335 0060899190 0061859338

The project that captured a nation's imagination. The instructions were simple, but the results were extraordinary. "You are invited to anonymously contribute a secret to a group art project. Your secret can be a regret, fear, betrayal, desire, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything -- as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before. Be brief. Be legible. Be creative." It all began with an idea Frank Warren had for a community art project. He began handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places -- asking people to write down a secret they had never told anyone and mail it to him, anonymously. The response was overwhelming. The secrets were both provocative and profound, and the cards themselves were works of art -- carefully and creatively constructed by hand. Addictively compelling, the cards reveal our deepest fears, desires, regrets, and obsessions. Frank calls them "graphic haiku," beautiful, elegant, and small in structure but powerfully emotional. As Frank began posting the cards on his website, PostSecret took on a life of its own, becoming much more than a simple art project. It has grown into a global phenomenon, exposing our individual aspirations, fantasies, and frailties -- our common humanity. Every day dozens of postcards still make their way to Frank, with postmarks from around the world, touching on every aspect of human experience. This extraordinary collection brings together the most powerful, personal, and beautifully intimate secrets Frank Warren has received -- and brilliantly illuminates that human emotions can be unique and universal at the same time. This book is part of the "PostSecret" series. Here are some other books from this series: "The World of PostSecret" First published in 2014 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "My Secret" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: Similar books: My Secret by Frank Warren A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book by Frank Warren The World of PostSecret by Frank Warren Elegant Enigmas by Karen Wilkin The World of Edward Gorey by Clifford Ross Bossypants by Tina Fey Underwater Dogs by Seth Casteel They Cage the Animals at Night by Jennings Michael Burch Dibs in Search of Self by Virginia M. Axline Oh Myyy! by George Takei At Home with Books by Estelle Ellis Lynch on Lynch by David Lynch Degas by Bernd Growe A Friend Like Henry by Nuala Gardner A Crisis of Brilliance by David Boyd Haycock Salvador Dali by Robert Descharnes The Artful Dodger by Nick Bantock At My Mother's Knee... by Paul O'Grady Monet by Christoph Heinrich Art and Visual Perception by Rudolf Arnheim