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Arts & Numbers: A Financial Guide for Artists, Writers, Performers, and Other Members of the Creative Class

by Elaine Grogan Luttrull

The creative class—artists, actors, writers, musicians, freelancers, dancers, performers, and the like—are known for applying their passion for creative expression to everything they do. Perhaps the one thing...

2013 Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market

by Mary Burzlaff Bostic

All the Tools You Need to Build a Successful Art Career!

2013 Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market is the must-have reference guide for any artist who wants to establish or expand a career in fine art, illustration...

The illustrator's survival guide

by Amélia Giroux-Gagné & Nicolas Trost

Since its inception in 1983, Illustration Quebec (Quebec Association of illustrators) has developed numerous promotional tools for illustrators. It has also created documents regarding copyrights, contracts,...

How to Buy and Sell Art

by Michael Reid

Never bought a painting or a sculpture? This guide has all the answers for those who want to start collecting art but don't know where to begin.

Corporate Art Collections: A Handbook to Corporate Buying

by Charlotte Appleyard & James Salzmann

This new volume in the series of Handbooks in International Art Business published in association with Sotheby's Institute of Art offers a timely guide to corporate collecting, examining the history, nature...

How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist

by Caroll Michels

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 marketing

Now in its sixth...

2013 Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market

by Mary Burzlaff Bostic

All the Tools You Need to Build a Successful Art Career!

2013 Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market is the must-have reference guide for any artist who wants to establish or expand a career in fine art, illustration...

The Cultural Leadership Handbook: How to Run a Creative Organization

by Robert Hewison & John Holden

The Cultural Leadership Handbook will help anyone with a professional or academic interest in the culture sector understand the distinct strategic questions that apply to it and how the specific circumstances...

The Art Business

by Iain Robertson

By the time you read this book, the art world may have witnessed the sale of its first $500 million painting. Whilst for some people money is anathema to art this is clearly a wealthy international industry,...

Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum

by Jason Felch & Ralph Frammolino

Two investigative reporters for the Los Angeles Times explore the looted antiquities scandal at the Getty Museum.

How to Get Hung: A Practical Guide for Emerging Artists

by Molly Barnes & Pat Hilton

In this accessible, easy-to-read, detailed guide for artists, students, and aspiring art professionals, Molly Barnes takes the mystique out of "how to get hung". Readers learn how to present their work and themselves...

How to Make Money as an Artist: The 7 Winning Strategies of Successful Fine Artists

by Sean Moore

How to sell one’s art isn't taught in art schools, yet it’s an essential ingredient in getting work displayed and attracting art commissions. This straightforward guide is written for artists who want to...

2012 Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market

by Mary Burzlaff Bostic

NEW LOOK, NEW FEATURES, UPDATED RESOURCES: ALL THE TOOLS YOU NEED TO BUILD A SUCCESSFUL ART CAREER!

2012 Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market is the must-have reference guide for emerging artists, who want to...

Breaking Into Freelance Illustration

by Holly DeWolf

Build Your Own Thriving Illustration Business The boundaries between art, design and illustration are blurring, and with all the new opportunities for visual creatives, now is the perfect time to unleash your...