Title: The Animal Within
Description: Written in a clear uncluttered way for the general reader this book gives an original idea about what has led artists from great artistic achievement to end up creating the bizarre and ludicrous art we see today. Here is a vision of the history of art that is not about the creation of great works by great artists but describes art as a very powerful animal way of sensing sight, shape, sound and movement we all inherit from our primal beginnings. In this book you will discover we have evolved to keep this animal way of perception hidden and suppressed in the depth of our mind because it is a far more intense and disturbing experience than we can comprehend. Artists are seen as people who have always sensed this other hidden perception, but they have never been in a position to understand what it was. Artists had to work with ideas of superstition, religion, and culture that gave art false identities but, with the discovery that we have animal origins, artists have been forced to re-evaluate the idea of art. What had once been seen as a miraculous gift of creativity and genius is now seen as a reaction to a far more basic animal way of experience hidden behind our intelligent powers of recognition. Here you will find modern art described as an attempt to look beyond our day to day way of knowing the world around us to try to rediscover a lost sensation of objects and events we still inherit in the deepest oldest parts of our mind.
Subjects: Modern Art, Art Theory, Primal Sensation, Inner Vision, New Ideas