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Advice
to Young Artists in a Postmodern Era 
William Dunning
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This
book offers practical advice to young artists
hoping to make the transition from art school
student to independent artist. Topics include
how to approach and deal with galleries and
dealers, how to set up a studio and how to finance
the transition. |
Detailed
Description
From the Author
To achieve excellence, and then success in art.
For decades I have heard students ask the same question:
"Why doesn't this university offer a class
that teaches us about graduate art schools, galleries,
studios, and all those things we need for graduate
school and after?" This book is intended to
be a service to all those studio artists who have
not known how to achieve excellence in their chosen
field, nor where to go, nor what to do if they do
achieve this excellence. I put together my own experience
with a considerable amount of library research into
the advice that has been written by known successful
artists such as: Leonardo, Joshua Reynolds, Mozart,
Robert Henri, Frank Stella, Rainer Rilke, Peter
Plagens, Barnett Newman, and Josef Albers–-as
well as many others who are knowledgeable in the
art world. Then I sought the advice of several other
working artists from New York and Chicago.
This book will guide young artists during and after
school in the following areas as well as some others:
how and what to read and how not to read; what is
the relationship between talent, intelligence, self-discipline,
and hard work; when to, and when not to, listen
to your professors; when tradition is helpful to
an artist and when it should be changed or attacked;
what are the politics for making it in the art world;
do some critics expect bribes and what kind; how
to approach and dealers and galleries and how not
to; how to light and set up a studio for efficiency
(as well as tax purposes); and what are the politics
uses and expectations for the studio; what kinds
of jobs might artists consider to support themselves,
and which jobs might be helpful to them. Ben Mahmoud,
a Chicago artist who has been a successful painter
for decades and who is married to a C. P. A, was
of particular help with sections of this book and
he wrote the chapter on how to keep records and
report taxes--a necessary read for those who expect
art to be their business.
Bill Dunning
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