Taking the Leap
Taking the Leap

Author: Cay Lang

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 1998-04

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780811818155

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Offers artists advice on creating a portfolio, planning a career strategy, staging art exhibitions, and making useful connections.

The Contemporary Art Book
The Contemporary Art Book

Author: Charlotte Bonham-Carter

Publisher: Goodman Publishers

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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Spanning 40 years, this book covers 200 of the most widely exhibited international artists organised A-Z by artist name, each entry illustrated with a key example of their work.

Be The Artist
Be The Artist

Author: Thomas Evans

Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing

Published: 2020-02-11

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1682752763

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This go-to guide can be your handbook as you enter the art world and navigate the nuances of becoming self-sufficient. Instead of feeding you new techniques, it will provide you with insights to help you make decisions based on your specific situation and goals. By the end of this book, you will have a set of guidelines for scenarios that range from taking on commission work and conducting negotiations to dealing with rejection and improving your organization. Be the Artist is designed to help up-and-coming creatives educate themselves on essential yet seldom-discussed strategies, learn about new and relevant artists, and gather the resources they need to build their business.

Making Marvels
Making Marvels

Author: Wolfram Koeppe

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2019-11-25

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1588396770

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Featuring more than 150 treasures from several of the world’s most prestigious collections, Making Marvels explores the vital intersection of art, technology, and political power at the courts of early modern Europe. It was there, from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, that a remarkable outpouring of creativity and learning gave rise to exquisite objects that were at once beautiful works of art and technological wonders. By amassing vast, glittering collections of these ingeniously crafted objects, princes flaunted their wealth and competed for mastery over the known world. More than mere status symbols, however, many of these marvels ushered in significant advancements that have had a lasting influence on astronomy, engineering, and even international politics. Incisive texts by leading scholars situate these works within the rich, complex symbolism of life at court, where science and splendor were pursued with equal vigor and together contributed to a culture of magnificence.

Guide to Historic Artists' Homes & Studios
Guide to Historic Artists' Homes & Studios

Author: Valerie A. Balint

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Published: 2020-06-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781616897734

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From the desert vistas of Georgia O'Keeffe's New Mexico ranch to Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner's Hamptons cottage, step into the homes and studios of illustrious American artists and witness creativity in the making. Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Historic Artists' Homes and Studios program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, this is the first guidebook to the forty-four site museums in the network, located across all regions of the United States and all open to the public. The guide conveys each artist's visual legacy and sets each site in the context of its architecture and landscape, which often were designed by the artists themselves. Through portraits, artwork, and site photos, discover the powerful influence of place on American greats such as Andrew Wyeth, Grant Wood, Winslow Homer, and Donald Judd as well as lesser-known but equally creative figures who made important contributions to cultural history-photographer Alice Austen and muralist Clementine Hunter among them.