Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

Author: Bayles, DavidBrand: PenguinColor: BlackEdition: 1Features: Used Book in Good ConditionBinding: PaperbackNumber Of Pages: 122Release Date: 01-04-2001Part Number: YES387372Details: "This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentially—statistically speaking—there aren't 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." —-from the Introduction Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. The book's co-au