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Summary: PACKED with fantastic advice and resources
Review: I read it cover-to-cover in one day and then made all my sculptor and photographer friends buy it too. I had so many illusions about the business of art that this book dispelled. I have never gotten so much good and useful advice from one place before. I feel so empowered to start my career as an artist now. The book is full of optimism, helpful information, and is absolutely packed with resources.
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Summary: A book pointing you to other books
Review: I was disappointed in this book. Lots of "resources" listed, but the nuts and bolts boil down to the old "how to" cliches, like Get organized! A computer can help you do this! Many gallery owners are meanies! Far less than what I was looking for.
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Summary: Read this book... and stop suffering for your art!
Review: I've read dozens of books purporting to help artists in their careers, but this is the only one I've found that offers solid, practical, step-by-step information. It's refreshing to read an art career book that doesn't feature suffering as a theme! This classic handbook puts to rest the myth of the starving artist. A completely updated Appendix lists artists' colonies, grant sources, internships, and insurance and legal services. The author is a successful career coach to artists, and she offers practical advice on launching - or relaunching - your career. If you can only buy one book on art as a career, this should be it!
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Summary: They need to stop printing this book!
Review: This book has some good ideas, but it is very dated. It refers to search engines and sites that no longer exist, and doesn't address new technologies and sites. A new edition might be worthwhile, but I'd pass on this one.
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Summary: Good, but not for everyone
Review: This book is very useful for loners, but I would recommend sites like Vaultreports.com that help people find jobs at major companies that can use the talents of professional artists.
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Summary: Michels Gets Down To Business
Review: This book saved me months of research. Not only does Caroll Michels unravel the myths associated with Fine Arts as a business, she also provides the names of hundreds of resources to assist in selling an artists works.The book carefully lays out the do's and don'ts of the Fine Art business. She carefully points out that selling art is a business venture. As one who has not intention of 'starving for my art', the book is a great road map for the artist that is willing to work to make his or her art business succeed. After all, you are selling a product. Bad products fail, but good products without proper marketing suffer failure as well! The book stresses this point throughout. Michels gives the tools to those who not only create, but want to make a mature, businesslike effort to grow that creativity into a real business.
While those who take advantage of the naivety of many artists must dislike the book immensely, it is a great business tool for those artists willing to read it.
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Summary: A very good basic book
Review: This book was passed out free by my art school 20 years ago. I have since purchased updated copies of the book. It is a very good point of reference, and her points about the pettiness of how artists hold each other down (not sharing information, etc) are very well taken. Too bad more artists don't follow the advice! I also liked her example of the artist who had a dealer drop cigar ashes on the slide sleeve. The message to artists is, if you don't value your work, who will? Present professionally, target your market, share information-this book will help get you to a professional state of mind.
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Summary: Solid Information
Review: This is a great resource guide on how to market yourself as an artist, dispelling the usual myths and stereotypes along the way. If you're looking for a more philosophical approach to creating art, try Julia Cameron's "The Artist's Way." But if you want to know how to write a resume, buy insurance, get through the doors of a gallery, and market yourself to clients around the world, then this book is an excellent source.
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Summary: The stuff they should teach you at those art $chool$
Review: This is one of those books that has good information in it, but you have a lot of useless information to sort through to get to it. There are a number of other books on this subject that have excellent information in them and they get to the meat of the information without all the wading. A couple of similar books that get more to the point include Selling Your Crafts by Susan Joy Sager and The Basic Guide to Selling Crafts on the Internet by James Dillehay. Remember, bigger isn't always better.
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Summary: Where's the beef?
Review: This is one of those books that has good information in it, but you have a lot of useless information to sort through to get to it. There are a number of other books on this subject that have excellent information in them and they get to the meat of the information without all the wading. A couple of similar books that get more to the point include Selling Your Crafts by Susan Joy Sager and The Basic Guide to Selling Crafts on the Internet by James Dillehay. Remember, bigger isn't always better.
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