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Fearless Creating, A Step-by-step Guide to Starting and Completing Your Work of Art

Fearless Creating, A Step-by-step Guide to Starting and Completing Your Work of Art

Fearless Creating, A Step-by-step Guide to Starting and Completing Your Work of Art Paperback - 1995

by Eric Maisel

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The blank page, empty canvas, or uncarved stone will often fill artists with dread. But so may the thought of finishing, showing or even selling their work. Maisel guides the reader, whether an experienced artist or someone just starting out, past the pitfalls that appear in each stage of creation.

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New York: Jeremy P Tarcher / Putnam, 1995. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Guide to overcoming psychological barriers to the creative process. 267pp with index. Spine a little slanted, creasing to corners and gift inscription to half-title page, otherwise good clean copy..
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  • Title Fearless Creating, A Step-by-step Guide to Starting and Completing Your Work of Art
  • Author Eric Maisel
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition, First Printing
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Jeremy P Tarcher / Putnam, New York
  • Publication date 1995
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 010813
  • ISBN 9780874778052 / 0874778050
  • Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 7 x 0.64 in (22.86 x 17.78 x 1.63 cm)
  • Size 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
  • Category Psychology
  • Library of Congress subjects Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.), Artists - Psychology
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 95010427
  • Dewey Decimal Code 701.15
  • Bookseller catalogues Art

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Summary

For writers, painters, or performers in any field, new hope for overcoming creative blocks and finishing the art of their dreams.

The blank page, empty canvas, or uncarved stone will often fill artists with dread. But so may the thought of finishing, showing, or even selling their work. It is in this "artistic anxiety" that creative blocks begin.

With an understanding that could only be gained through years of experience in counseling artists, writers, and performers, Eric Maisel, Ph.D. discusses each stage of creation-wishing, choosing, starting, working, completing, selling--and the anxieties particular to each. He then shows how these inhibiting tensions can be turned to artistic advantages, how truth and beauty arrive in the work of art precisely because, and only when, anxiety has been understood, embraced, and resolved.

Fearless Creating guides the reader, whether an experienced artist or someone just starting out, past the pitfalls that appear in each stage of the process. By following Dr. Maisel's exercises related both to the world at hand and the ongoing struggles of artistic life, readers will emerge from this book with a completed work of art and a new perspective on their potential to be a fearless creator.

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For writers, painters, or performers in any field, new hope for overcoming creative blocks and finishing the art of their dreams.

The blank page, empty canvas, or uncarved stone will often fill artists with dread. But so may the thought of finishing, showing, or even selling their work. It is in this "artistic anxiety" that creative blocks begin.

With an understanding that could only be gained through years of experience in counseling artists, writers, and performers, Eric Maisel, Ph.D. discusses each stage of creation-wishing, choosing, starting, working, completing, selling--and the anxieties particular to each. He then shows how these inhibiting tensions can be turned to artistic advantages, how truth and beauty arrive in the work of art precisely because, and only when, anxiety has been understood, embraced, and resolved.

Fearless Creating guides the reader, whether an experienced artist or someone just starting out, past the pitfalls that appear in each stage of the process. By following Dr. Maisel's exercises related both to the world at hand and the ongoing struggles of artistic life, readers will emerge from this book with a completed work of art and a new perspective on their potential to be a fearless creator.

About the author

A featured speaker at writers' conferences and a regular contributor to Writer's Digest, psychotherapist Eric Maisel has written twenty-two works of fiction and nonfiction including The Creativity Book, Deep Writing, A Life in the Arts, Fearless Creating, and Affirmations for Artists. He lives near San Francisco.
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