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Essential Guides eBook Series

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  • The Essential Guide to Business for Artists and Designers

    by Alison Branagan ...
    Series series Essential Guides
    This second edition of the best-selling, comprehensive handbook The Essential Guide to Business for Artists and Designers will appeal to a wide range of artists, makers, designers, and photographers looking to set up and establish an arts practice or design business within the visual arts and creative industries.With fully revised content, three new chapters, and profiles of contemporary artists ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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  • Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts

    Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World

    by Christopher de Hamel ...
    **An extraordinary and beautifully illustrated exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world's leading experts.Winner of The Wolfson History Prize and The Duff Cooper Prize.A San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Book Gift Guide Pick!**Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is a captivating examination of twelve illuminated manuscripts from the medieval period. Noted ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Living and Sustaining a Creative Life

    Essays by 40 Working Artists

    by Sharon Louden ...
    Series series Living and Sustaining a Creative Life
    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.The 40 essays collected here in Living and Sustaining a Creative Life are written ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Artist's Guide to Public Art

    How to Find and Win Commissions

    by Lynn Basa, Barbara T. Hoffman ...
    Public art commissions--how to find them, how to get them.* First-hand advice from experienced public artists* Written by an artist for artists* Includes expert information on public art lawLearn how to find, apply for, compete for, and win a public art commission. First-hand interviews with experienced public artists and arts administrators provide in-the-trenches advice and insight, and a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Making It in the Art World

    New Approaches to Galleries, Shows, and Raising Money

    by Brainard Carey ...
    Learn how today’s artists survive, exhibit, and earn money, without selling out! This book explains how to be a professional artist and new methods to define and realize what success means. Whether you’re a beginner, a student, or a career artist looking to be in the best museum shows, this book provides ways of advancing your plans on any level.Making It in the Art World is an invaluable resource ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Fake

    Forgery, Lies, & eBay

    by Kenneth Walton ...
    It was the golden age of eBay. Optimistic bidders went online to the world's largest flea market in droves, ready to spend cash on everything from garden gnomes to Mercedes convertibles. Among them were art collectors willing to spend big money on unseen paintings, hoping to buy valuable pieces of art at below-market prices. EBay also attracted the occasional con artist unable to resist the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Guide to Getting Arts Grants

    by Ellen Liberatori ...
    Get that arts grant and be more independent! In this book, artists and arts groups will find all they need to know to support themselves through grants and special projects. This expert guide, written by an insider who has been on both the grant-making and the grant-writing side of the arts, shows readers how to assess their personal strengths and set goals to pursue their dreams. Hands-on ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Visual Communication

    From Cave Art to Second Life (2nd edition)

    by Susan B. Barnes ...
    Series Book 7 - Visual Communication
    Technological changes have radically altered the ways in which people use visual images. Since the invention of photography, imagery has increasingly been used for entertainment, journalism, information, medical diagnostics, instruction, branding and communication. These functions move the image beyond aesthetic issues associated with art and into the realm of communication studies.This ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The A-Z of the International Art Market

    The Essential Guide to Customs, Conventions and Practice

    by Tom Flynn ...
    "A comprehensive, wide-ranging and historically well-informed account." - Charles Saumarez Smith, Royal Academy of ArtsIt is estimated that there are over 300,000 companies involved in the world's art market, employing around 2.8 million people. But the art world carries a veneer of mystery and secrecy that many people find daunting, and the language used by market insiders can be alienating and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Cinema at the Shore

    The Beach in French Film

    by Fiona Handyside ...
    Series Book 14 - New Studies in European Cinema
    From Brigitte Bardot in her bikini at the Cannes Film Festival, to François Ozon’s intimate portrayals of grief and loss, some of the most iconic and challenging moments in French cinema are associated with the beach. Cinema at the Shore argues that the Parisian cityscape is not the only significant definition of space in French cinema and instead explores the industrial, aesthetic and thematic ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Mediated Youth Reader

    Edited by Sharon R. Mazzarella ...
    Series Book 27 - Mediated Youth
    Since the first book was signed almost ten years ago, the Mediated Youth series has published nearly two dozen volumes, with more in process or production. This milestone provides the perfect opportunity to reflect on how the series has evolved, how it has contributed to the field, and in which direction(s) it is moving.The chapters reprinted in this volume have been selected to showcase the ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being

    Representing the Voices of Tourism

    Edited by Maurizio Gotti, Stefania Maci, Michele Sala ...
    Series Book 228 - Linguistic Insights
    The aim of this volume is to give voice to the various and different perspectives in the investigation of tourism discourse in its written, spoken, and visual aspects. The chapters particularly focus on the interaction between the participants involved in the tourism practices, that is the promoters of tourist destinations, on the one hand, and tourists or prospective tourists on the other. In ... Read more

    $123.99 USD