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Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by Bayles, David, Orland, Ted is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

<p>"This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art <i>not</i> made by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentially—statistically speaking—there <i>aren't</i> any people like that. Geniuses get made once-a-century or so, yet good art gets made all the time, so to equate the making of art with the workings of genius removes this intimately human activity to a strangely unreachable and unknowable place. For all practical purposes making art can be examined in great detail without ever getting entangled in the very remote problems of genius."<br> —-from the Introduction</p> <p><i>Art &amp; Fear</i> explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often <i>doesn't</i> get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. The book's co-authors, David Bayles and Ted Orland, are themselves both working artists, grappling daily with the problems of making art in the real world. Their insights and observations, drawn from personal experience, provide an incisive view into the world of art as it is expeienced by artmakers themselves.</p> <p>This is not your typical self-help book.

Author

Bayles, David, Orland, Ted

Publisher

Image Continuum Press ; Distributed by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780961454722

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Education, Art