Fearless Creating: A Step-by-Step Guide To Starting and Completing Your Work of Art

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.

Paperback: 304 pages

Publisher: TarcherPerigee; 9407th edition (October 17 1995)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 9780874778052

ISBN-13: 978-0874778052

ASIN: 0874778050

Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.7 x 9.1 inches

Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces