More Than a Rock, 2nd Edition. Guy Tal

      More Than a Rock, 2nd Edition

      Guy Tal (guytal.com)

      Editors: Joan Dixon and Jocelyn Howell

      Project manager: Lisa Brazieal

      Marketing coordinator: Mercedes Murray

      Layout and type: Hespenheide Design

      Front cover design: Rebecca Cowlin

      Cover production: Hespenheide Design

      ISBN: 978-1-68198-683-8

      2nd Edition (1st printing, January 2021)

      © 2021 Guy Tal

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      This book is printed on acid-free paper.

      Printed in China

       This book is lovingly dedicated to my younger sister, Sharon, whose sudden passing in December 2014 inspired the essay titled “Reentry”

      Table of Contents

       Foreword by Chuck Kimmerle

       Preface

       Introduction to the Second Edition

       PART IART

       1The Mission of Art

       2My Audience

       3Difficult Questions

       4Art and Philosophy

       5The Things Themselves

       6Driving Miss Camera

       7The Phase of No Emotion

       8Lie Like You Mean It

       9The Meaning of Words

       10No Lesser an Art

       11Art and Rebellion

       12What Is Real

       13The Educated Audience

       14The Medium Is Not the Message

       15Contemporary Oligarchy

       16Art for People’s Sake

       17The Important Thing

       18What Makes an Artist

       19On Subjectivity

       20The Mythical Personal Style

       21Such Things Could Be

       22Where Credit Is Due

       23Shock and Awe

       24Artistic Promiscuity

       PART IICRAFT

       25Perfectly Dead Things

       26Finding the Needle

       27Forget Vision

       28Projects and Explorations

       29Of and About