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Art & Fear, Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles and Ted Orland. This is a book about the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and about the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. David Bayles and Ted Orland are both working artists, grappling daily with the problems of making art in the real world. the observations madeare drawn from personal experience, and relate more to the needs of fellow artists than to the interests of viewers. Do not mistake Art & Fear for a pop psychology self-help book. The authors are not interested in freeing your inner child! This is a book 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 they have tried to do is illuminate the obstacles the artist faces, and offer some artistic strategies for getting past them. Art & Fear has become something of an underground classic, and has now sold over 180,000 copies by word of mouth advertising alone.
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