Name: You Are An Artist
Brand: Bob and Roberta Smith

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

9780500239933signed

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Colour

Discs

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format Books GB

Hardback

Format detail

Signed by Bob and Roberta Smith aka Patrick Brill

Limited edition

Release date

2020-09-11

Signed copies

Signed copies: Yes

Supplier GB

Thames & Hudson

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UPC / Barcode

9780500239933

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1 / Extended format: Yes / Hardback / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: Yes

Artist

Bob and Roberta Smith

Genre GB

Art & Photography

Label GB

Thames and Hudson

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.

You Are An Artist

Books GB