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How to Be an Artist
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Irreverent and inspiring advice for awakening your creative potential, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic.
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"I wish I had read these rules forty years ago and carried them around like a bible. By chance or design, I've followed most of them at some point, but it took me a lifetime as an artist to find what worked. They are the generous, loving, enthusiastic, bullshit-free advice of a master communicator, just reading them makes me want to charge back into the studio." - Grayson Perry
"Being an artist is a lonely pursuit - twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for the rest of your life. Most of the time it hurts. This book will help the pain." - Tracey Emin
Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Jerry Saltz is here to show you how to bring art and creativity into your life, with irreverent, inspiring, and priceless pieces of advice on getting on in art.
As the witty and passionate chief art critic for New York magazine, Jerry Saltz is often approached by artists, both amateur and professional, asking him for advice: How do I get started? How do I get better? Is what I'm doing even art at all? They want to know, in short, how to be an artist.
Now, expanding on his viral cover story for New York magazine - and drawing on his decades of immersion in the art world - Saltz has the answers. How to Be an Artist is an indispensable book of practical inspiration for creative people of all kinds. Brimming with dozens of brand new rules, prompts, exercises, and tips designed to break through creative blocks, ignite motivation, and conquer bad habits, this book is designed to help artists of all kinds - painters, photographers, writers, performers - realize their dreams.
Includes such advice as:
- Make art for now, not the future
- No, you don't need graduate school
- Recognise convention, and resist constraint
- Get lost
- Listen to the wildest voices in your head
- Know what you hate (it's probably you)
- Finish the damn thing!
- How to recover from critical injuries
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Jerry Saltz's How to Be an Artist is praised for its inspirational approach to creativity and its accessibility to both artists and non-artists alike. Reviewers highlight Saltz's intuitive insights into the artistic process, and his ability to convey practical wisdom in an engaging manner. The book is described as both hopeful and empowering, offering readers tools and encouragement to overcome self-doubt and pursue their creative endeavours. Saltz is commended for demystifying the art world and sharing invaluable advice with a vibrant and humorous touch.
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ISBN: 9781781577820
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 17 March 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Ilex
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 16.0mm
Width: 126.0mm
Height: 192.0mm
Weight: 335g
Pages: 144
About the Author
Jerry Saltz is the senior art critic at New York magazine and its entertainment site Vulture. He is the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism and a 2019 National Magazine Award. Before joining New York in 2007, Saltz had been art critic for The Village Voice since 1998, and was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize during his tenure there. A frequent guest lecturer, he has spoken at the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Whitney Museum, and many others, and has appeared at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, and elsewhere.
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