The authors, themselves artists, draw upon their years of experience and stories about successful creatives to demystify art and show that most problems artists face are neither unique nor proof of unworthiness but common and fixable. Thankfully, Art & Fear comes to the rescue.
If left unchallenged, such fears will not only hamper artists’ ability to do their work, but even motivate some to quit. Such worries are no surprise given that many consider art the result of forces outside their control-and because through their work, artists reveal their deepest convictions, standing spiritually naked in front of the world (or at least in front of those who take the time to discover their art). These are just a handful of the doubts and fears that plague many artists as they set out to make art. Artists become veteran artists only by making peace not just with themselves, but with a huge range of issues. Today, more than it was however many years ago, art is hard because you have to keep after it so consistently. The original Capra Press edition of "Art & Fear" sold 80,000 copies. By: David Bayles, Ted Orland Narrated by: Arthur Morey Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins 4.6 (1,912 ratings) Try for 0.
"Art & Fear" has attracted a remarkably diverse audience, ranging from beginning to accomplished artists in every medium, and including an exceptional concentration among students and teachers.
Word-of-mouth response alone-now enhanced by internet posting-has placed it among the best-selling books on artmaking and creativity nationally. First published in 1994, "Art & Fear" quickly became an underground classic. This is a book written by artists, for artists - it's about what it feels like when artists sit down at their easel or keyboard, in their studio or performance space, trying to do the work they need to do. Their insights and observations, drawn from personal experience, provide an incisive view into the world of art as it is expeienced by artmakers themselves. 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. "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. For all practical purposes making art can be examined in great detail without ever getting entangled in the very remote problems of genius." 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. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people essentially-statistically speaking-there "aren't" any people like that.
Ordinary art means something like: all art "not" made by Mozart.
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