| Description |
167 pages : illustrations (color) ; 24 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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still image sti rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
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Gender group: gdr Men lcdgt |
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Nationality/regional group: nat Britons lcdgt |
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Occupational/field of activity group: occ Artists lcdgt |
| Bibliography |
Includes discography (page 165). |
| Contents |
Time, beginnings and inspiration -- Looking -- Stealing -- Thinking -- Where am I? -- What is this? -- Who am I? -- Landscape -- Still life -- Expression. |
| Summary |
'You Are an Artist' is for everyone who wants to be an artist, but has been too afraid to take the plunge. It combines a thought-provoking meditation on art practice with a series of practical exercises and creative provocations that encourage everyone to fulfil their potential as an artist. The book is itself a kind of art school, helping the reader to work out what kind of artist they are, and what they can achieve. Drawing on the author's experience as an art school teacher, it playfully adapts the methods of art education, mixing these with the sideways approach to creativity popularized by the author's activist campaigns. Smith provides an array of ideas, tips and practical examples, illustrated with documentary photographs of his own specially made work. His riotous paintings and installations are set alongside discussions of time, place, looking, thinking, stealing and becoming, with enlightening forays into the history of art and creativity. A collection of hilarious, at times startling and often moving narratives bring to life a series of lessons about the nature of art and inspiration. Each lesson comes with a series of prompts to harness the reader's own artistic capabilities. Whether we like it or not, says Bob and Roberta Smith, we have been enrolled in the world, and the world is an art school. You are an artist, because every human being who has ever lived was once an artist. |
| Subject |
Smith, Bob and Roberta, 1964-
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Art -- Vocational guidance.
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Artists -- Psychology.
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Art -- Study and teaching -- Philosophy.
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Creative ability -- Problems, exercises, etc.
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Art, Modern -- 21st century.
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Smith, Bob and Roberta, 1964- (OCoLC)fst01577510
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Creative ability. (OCoLC)fst00882417
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) (OCoLC)fst00882393
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Artists -- Psychology.
(OCoLC)fst00817612
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Art -- Vocational guidance. (OCoLC)fst00815388
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Art -- Study and teaching -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst00815347
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Art, Modern. (OCoLC)fst00816615
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Problems and exercises. (OCoLC)fst01423783
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| ISBN |
9780500239933 paperback |
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0500239932 paperback |
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