The work of art : value in creative careers / Alison Gerber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerber, Alison, author.

Series:

Culture and economic life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artists--United States--Attitudes.

Artists.

Artists--United States--Economic conditions.

Art--Economic aspects--United States.

Art.

Art--Economic aspects.

Artists--Attitudes.

Artists--Economic conditions.

Economic conditions.

United States.

Physical Description:

xi, 177 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]

Summary:

In the Work of Art, Alison Gerber investigates who artists are (and who they're not), why they do the things they do, and whether a sense of vocational calling and the need to make a living are as incompatible as we're often led to believe. Listening to the stories of artists from across the United States, Gerber finds patterns of agreements and disagreements shared by art-makers from all walks of life. For professionals and hobbyists alike, the alliance of love and money has become central to contemporary art-making, and danger awaits those who fail to strike a balance between the two. The stories artists tell are just as much a part artistic practice as putting brush to canvas or chisel to marble. By explaining the shared ways that artists account for their activities-the analogies they draw, the arguments they make-Gerber reveals the common bases of value artists point to when they say what I do is worth doing. The Work of Art asks how we make sense of the things we do and shows why this talk about value matters so much. Book jacket.

Contents:

Art work?

The work of art

Making cents of art

Making sense of art

This way be monsters

Doing things with words

The audit of Venus.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Gerber, Alison, author. Work of art

ISBN:

9780804798310

0804798311

9781503603820

1503603822

OCLC:

978647934