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 IntroductionĪrt & 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. 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. The authors explore the way art gets made, the reasons it doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. An artist's survival guide, written by and for working artists.
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