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Art and Fear: Observations On the Perils , and Rewards, of Artmaking
Art and Fear: Observations On the Perils , and Rewards, of Artmaking
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Author: David Bayles & Ted Orland Publisher: Image Continuum Press Format: Softcover # of Pages: 122 Pub. Date: 2001 ISBN-10: 0961454733 ISBN-13: 9780961454739
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About the book:
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-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 experienced by artmakers themselves.
Do not mistake Art & Fear for a pop psychology self-help book. This is a book written by artists, for artists — it’s about what it feels like to sit down at your potter’s wheel or keyboard, easel or camera, trying to do the work you need to do. What the authors have tried to do is illuminate the obstacles you face, and offer some artistic strategies for getting past them.
First published in 1994, Art & Fear has become something of an underground classic, and has now sold over 180,000 copies by word of mouth advertising alone. The book has attracted a remarkably diverse audience, ranging from beginning to accomplished artists in every medium, and including an exceptional concentration among students and teachers.
What people say:
“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 to the Book
“Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art. And tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to succeeding.” — from the Book
About the Authors:
Both David Bayles and Ted Orland are working artists. Orland is a digital photography instructor at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz, California, where he pursues parallel careers in teaching, writing & photography. He took up photography as a young art student working for designer Charles Eames, and in the 1970s worked as Ansel Adams assistant and as printer of Adams’ Yosemite Special Edition Prints.
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