Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working Artists
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (746 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 178320012X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
These stories will inform and inspire any student, young artist, and art enthusiast and will help redefine what "success" means to a professional artist.. Each story is different and unique, but the common thread is an ongoing commitment to creativity, inside and outside the studio. The forty essays collected in Living and Sustaining a Creative Life are written in the artists’ own voices and take the form of narratives, statements, and interviews. Both day-to-day and big picture details are revealed, showing how it is possible to sustain a creative practice that contributes to the ongoing dialogue in contemporary art. In this day and age, when art has become more of a commodity and art school graduates are convinced that they can only make a living from their work by attaining gallery representation, it is more important than ever to show the reality of how a professional, contemporary artist sustains a creative practice over time
"Enjoyed every essay and its presentation. Straightforward and honest." according to Dori Decamillis. As a professional artist, I was very taken with this refreshing book of essays about the practical side of making a living as a visual artist. My path of making a living as an artist has been as unique and unexpected as many of the stories represented in Louden's book, and I found myself feeling validated and supported. As in my experience, the book shows how serendipity, hard work, luck, talent, and building relationships play a part in developing the careers of artists. There are quite a fe. This book is filled with insight that one only gets with experience. David A. Clark There are many wonderful things about this book. Each artists chapter reveals the layers of what it means to balance life as an artist. The term working artist can mean many, many things. Defining what is a "working artist" is indeed one of the great intangibles of learning what it is to be an artist. The bottom line is we all figure it out and define it in different ways. Sharon's book illuminates the various ways artists define what it is to be and do and function as a working artist. The e. A concise, well edited, humorous and quick read for artists, students and arts professionals. GB As a young artist and nonprofit arts professional who graduated with an art degree, I wish I could have read this book when I was in undergrad! It has still been an insightful and timely read for me 10 years after graduating. I thought it would be more of a how to guide and describe specifically how to make money in art, but it is much more. The book is a collection of personal essays from working artists who each describe their personal challenges, practices and approach to work life balance
Louden has initiated a public discussion of how an artist can persist. In many ways, Louden’s book helps us to answer the question, ‘How does an artist make a living today?’ Louden makes an important contribution to the discussion of how art is made now by the vast majority of artists at work. The book is a reality check prompting us to recall that invention doesn’t happen without determination. “Extraordinary. It’s an essential question in a field that no one chooses for its assurance of financial rewards. As these artists’ testimonies so vividly show, history, theory, and criticism are activities dependent ultimately on the hard-won production of art.”