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"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-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. This is not your typical self-help book. This is a book written by artists, fo

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Author
Bayles, David; Orland, Ted
Publisher
Turtleback Books;Distributed by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, Image Continuum Press
Published
1993
Language
EN
ISBN
9780884963790
Category
art
Subjects
Psychology, Education, Fiction
Rating
3.67 / 5 (50,341 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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