Eric Maisel / Paperback 244 pages / Published 1994
The author, Eric Maisel , October 29, 1998
The Library Journal review of A Life in the Arts:
"Maisel has applied his training and experience as a therapist to
the problems encountered by artists and performers. Here, he
addresses many of these problems, including the idea of talent,
the artist's personality, creative blocks, and aloneness. Most striking are his self-help ameliorative
strategies for coping. While this is not a book for everyone, it should be required reading for
anyone considering a major and/or career in the arts. In fact, Maisel's "Artist's Ten
Commandments," a recapitulation of important themes, has a certain universality. Recommended
for academic theater or creative arts collections."
The author, Eric Maisel , October 20, 1998
New Age Magazine review of A Life in the Arts
"Maisel has fused his empirical knowledge of the artistic life with true empathy and support for
artists of all disciplines. The result is a well-researched, eminently readable guide: Exercises and
strategies help artists approach such challenges as overcoming blocks, understanding the business
of art, coping with criticism and rejection, and mastering the positive and negative effects of
isolation. Even the margins contain quotations from renowned members of the creative
community--a nice embellishment of Maisel's fine, insightful work."
How to live with rejection, frustration and even success
Reviewer: A reader from us December 19, 1998
Eric Maisel encapsulates the tribulations of living within the artist's world, and provides common
sense, practical, easy to follow exercises for the reader. These exercises give us an intimate
understanding of our own frailties, and thus help us to face these, to accept them, and to
overcome them. The intelligent person's guide to developing and maintaining one's creative self.