Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of ArtmakingThese are questions that matter, questions that recur at each stage of artistic development - and they are the source for this volume of wonderfully incisive commentary. Art and Fear explores the way art gets made, the reason it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. This is a book about what it feels like to sit in your studio or classroom, at your wheel or keyboard, easel or camera, trying to do the work you need to do. It is about committing your future to your own hands, placing Free Will above predestination, choice above chance. It is about finding your own work. |
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Page 57
... ( sometimes at least ) the work will return as well . And sometimes it won't . Artists ( like everyone else ) have a certain conceptual inertia , a tendency to keep to their own compass heading even as the world itself veers off another ...
... ( sometimes at least ) the work will return as well . And sometimes it won't . Artists ( like everyone else ) have a certain conceptual inertia , a tendency to keep to their own compass heading even as the world itself veers off another ...
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... Sometimes our perception of the world flows smoothly and continu- ously from one state to the next , and sometimes it flips over unexpectedly ( and irrevocably ) into a different configuration entirely . As schoolkids we memorize the ...
... Sometimes our perception of the world flows smoothly and continu- ously from one state to the next , and sometimes it flips over unexpectedly ( and irrevocably ) into a different configuration entirely . As schoolkids we memorize the ...
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... Sometimes ( and probably far more often than we realize ) , the really important questions roll around in our minds for a long time before we act upon them . Sometimes , in fact , they sit there for a long time before we even realize ...
... Sometimes ( and probably far more often than we realize ) , the really important questions roll around in our minds for a long time before we act upon them . Sometimes , in fact , they sit there for a long time before we even realize ...
Contents
ART FEAR | 9 |
FEARS ABOUT YOURSELF | 23 |
FEARS ABOUT OTHERS | 37 |
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Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking David Bayles,Ted Orland Limited preview - 2023 |
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