- Publisher
- Image Continuum Press
- Published
- 1993
- Shelf
- art: Practice
- ISBN
- 0961454733
Practice
Art & Fear
David Bayles & Ted Orland
A short book about why people stop making things, written by two working artists who watched it happen around them.
Why read it
It contains the ceramics class parable that half the internet has repeated badly: the students graded on quantity made better pots than the students graded on quality, because they learnt by making and the others learnt by worrying. The rest of the book is that insight applied to every stage of a working life.
Why own it
It is a hundred and twenty pages and you will re-read it every few years, usually at a low point. That is the whole use case.
Who it is for
Anyone who has stopped making work, and anyone afraid to start.
Reading order
Book 5 of 5 in the art reading order, the last one. See all 5
Read before thisUnderstanding Comics
Opens a search on AbeBooks, a network of independent and antiquarian sellers, which is where a good part of this shelf has to be found, because it is out of print.
Read next
Chosen because they argue with this one, not because a machine noticed they share a category.
