How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist: Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (690 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0805088482 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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She also addresses vital legal concerns in the age of e-commerce, including copyrighting and registering your art, and finally, the appendix of resources, consistently updated online at Michels's site the Artist Help Network, is fully revised.. Drawing on nearly three decades of experience, Caroll Michels offers a wealth of insider's information on getting into a gallery, being your own PR agent, and negotiating prices, as well as innovative marketing, exhibition, and sales opportunities for various artistic disciplines. The classic handbook for launching and sustaining a career that "explodes the romantic notion of the starving artist," (The New York Times) with a brand-new chapter on Internet art marketingNow in its sixth edition,
Praise for the fourth edition:"Provides the best overview of political and other aspects of the art world that I have ever come acrossIt is a bible that every artist should have." --Shannon Wilkinson, president, Cultural Communications, New York"This book should be required reading for every exhibiting artist." --Ellen Rixford, Graphic News"This self-help career book is the pick of the litter." --Donna Marxer, Artists' News"Michels is filled with energy and ideasHer experience is the reader's bonus." --American Artist
Mr. J. Murdock said Recommended with Reservations. I bought this book along with Taking the Leap: Building a Career as a Visual Artist by Cay Lang as a recommendation from career coach Marty Nemko's website. While I was thoroughly impressed with Lang's book I have reservations with Michels' How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist. It is a good book but she keeps referring her readers to go and read other books in each and every chapter. It was okay in chapter 1 when she spoke highly of Carol Lloyd's motivational book Creating a Life Worth Living but it started to get rather annoying when the reader hits the Chapter on Artist's Grants. It starts running along the lines of, "Want to kno. The Kindle edition needs link cleanup in the appendix Helpful text, but the Resources section at the back is pretty out of date, and needs cleaning up. A number of the links are dead or lead to pages that just are not useful -- including the author's own web site which is listed over and over again in the appendix. I sympathize with how hard it is to keep a web site up to date, and would not mind if the author let her site go. And I recognize that in a hard copy book, on line links will go out of date. However, it seems to me that the Kindle edition could be changed relatively easily to delete the useless "resources" -- It doesn't look professional to have so many bad links.. E. L. Moon said Great Book for Jump-Starting a Stalled Career or. This is one of my reference books i.e. it never makes it to the book shelf.When I have a rough day as a self-employed artist, or just need a fresh perspective on my life, I pick up this book, read a few pages and I'm off again, freshly inspired and ready for action.Does it all apply? Of course not, but there's an excellent breadth of information and I always gain benefit from the time spent reading it.I wonder if I'll ever manage to finish the book? The fact that I haven't, and yet can look back and see how very far I've come in my career as an artist speaks to this and the other reference books I've found written to take the mystique