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Children are taught to color, write and print between the lines, observe the rules, wrap their minds in a bubble of tradition to prevent living out of a box. Children learn behavior in community as members of a disciplined herd, to avoid challenging that which is accepted and established. In art, however, unusual, deviant, almost outlaw behavior is admired. Artists existing outside the limits of the herd often improve the herd. All prosper from thinking; acting, creating and inventive minds changing things. Americans left the Old World limitations behind, where thinking and acting out of the box was once prohibited, and created a New World of progress and freedom almost 400 years ago, and proved individual freedom and elbowroom was the only source of prosperity, which is what this book is all about.
(c)Clay & Diana Barham 2009
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1 Bubble & Box Conflicts
2 The Origin of Lines
3 Science of Community
4 American Experience
5 Out of the Box
6 The Starting Box
7 The Artist’s New Box
8 Darwin’s Bubble
9 The Determined Box
10 Target Fixation
11 Values Bubble
12 VISTA Bubble
13 Attitude Bubble
14 Meaning Bubble
15 Needs Bubble
16 Pony Express Bubble
17 Boxaphobia
18 The Family Box
19 Free Market Box
20 Why The Artist?
21 Box Important
22 School Lunch Box
23 Mentor Box
24 Victim’s Box
25 Addiction Box
26 Ecology Box
27 Gender-Race- and Diversity Box
28 PC Box
29 Community Box
30 God’s Box
31 Crowd & Passion Box
32 Political Box
33 Group Boxes
34 Box Conflicts
35 The Love Box
36 To Box or Not To Box
37 Pandora’s Box