Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking Classical & Medieval it is an unflinching meditation

it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness

If our aspiration is lost

Elegantly styled

including the folly and genius of everyone from Napoleon to Margaret Thatcher

Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking Classical & Medieval it is an unflinching meditation"This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart like people; essentially statistically speaking there aren't any people like that. 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