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The Mission of Art is an inspirational text for artists and anyone who has glimpsed the spiritual power of art. I trace the evolution of human consciousness through art history and seek the threads of art's abiding mission. I reflect on the development of my own work including some strange performances and psychedelic journeys that have profoundly affected my art and life. My book explores the role of an artist's intention and conscience, and how we in the postmodern age can draw on the creative process as a spiritual path. The text is accompanied by over 50 b/w reproductions of my drawings and paintings. I put alot of love and care into The Mission of Art and hope you'll enjoy it! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
MY EARLIEST CHILDHOOD MEMORIES OF ART are of watching my father draw. Read the first page
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I urge anyone who loves and appreciates art, especially art students, to make this book both a part of your "way of seeing," and "being in," the world.
In The Mission of Art, Grey gives us a glimpse of his expanded transcendent view of reality, which includes dimensions seen and unseen. His sublime vision embraces the polarities of good and evil, beauty and horror, but ultimately transcends the limitations of both. His words and art bring us to a hauntingly familiar archetypal place within which is ultimately beyond these dualities. The ability to do this, as he with eloquent, gentle wisdom puts forth, is itself the "highest" of the many functions of art. Grey's dozens of illustrations, reminiscent of Blake but for me more transformative, fill the book with a noumenal force which several times brought me to poignant tears of divine remembrance. What makes Grey's work so powerfully authentic is that it is a product of his own direct experience of transpersonal states of consciousness. The highest function of the artist, he submits, is to capture the essence of this universal transcendent experience, and through art, share it as gifts to humanity. Grey not only shares these archetypal, imaginal realms with us but goes further. Bespeaking his spiritual maturity, Grey points to the necessity of going BEYOND all form in our inward journey that we will all one day take back our common Formless Source.
Grey's art, and this book, itself fulfills the highest function of art by showing us what is on the other side of the inner veil, and potentially ushering us to its threshold. -Eliot Jay Rosen, author of Experiencing the Soul
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