23 January 2021
Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
"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
| Title | : | Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking |
| Edition Language | : | English |
| ISBN | : | 9780961454739 |
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