An Absorbing Errand: How Artists and Craftsmen Make Their Way to Mastery

by Janna Malamud Smith

Book Overview

An Absorbing Errand uses stories of artists' lives, personal anecdotes, and insights from the author's work as a psychotherapist to examine the psychological obstacles that prevent people from staying with, and relishing, the process of art-making. Each chapter is devoted to a problem intrinsic to the creative process and illustrates how these very obstacles, once understood, can become prime sources of the energy that actually fuels the mastery...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1619021862
• ISBN13: 9781619021860
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 7.9"