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Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working Artists de Sharon Louden

Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working Artists: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life series

Editat de Sharon Louden
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 oct 2013

Prezentat sub forma unui volum de tip catalog de idei în format paperback, Living and Sustaining a Creative Life oferă o perspectivă onestă și tactilă asupra realității pragmatice a lumii artei. În loc să teoretizeze estetica, această lucrare, editată de Sharon Louden, adună vocile a 40 de artiști care își expun vulnerabilitatea și strategiile de supraviețuire. Reținem din paginile sale o diversitate de abordări, de la interviuri la eseuri confesive, care demitizează ideea că succesul înseamnă exclusiv reprezentarea într-o galerie de renume.

Simțim, parcurgând cuprinsul organizat alfabetic după numele artiștilor — de la Will Cotton la Julie Heffernan — o progresie de la entuziasmul începutului de carieră la maturitatea celor care au învățat să navigheze între atelier și viața domestică. Ca și Career Management for Artists, acest volum pune în valoare aspectele practice ale profesiei, dar cu un accent pe narațiunea personală și pe vocea directă a creatorului, nu doar pe sfaturi de marketing. În contextul operei sale, Sharon Louden continuă aici explorarea începută în Last Artist Standing, unde analiza sustenabilitatea pe termen lung a artiștilor seniori, însă aici extinde dialogul către o audiență mai largă, incluzând artiști aflați în diverse etape ale carierei.

Structura este echilibrată de o prefață semnată de editor și o introducere de Carter E. Foster, oferind un cadru critic necesar pentru a înțelege cum creativitatea poate subzista în ciuda presiunilor comerciale. Credem că această colecție funcționează ca un ghid de reziliență, oferind cititorului acces la detalii de culise care sunt rareori discutate în școlile de artă.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781783200122
ISBN-10: 178320012X
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 40 color plates
Dimensiuni: 178 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: Intellect Ltd
Colecția Intellect Ltd
Seria Living and Sustaining a Creative Life series

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui artist vizual sau student la arte plastice care dorește să înțeleagă mecanismele reale ale unei cariere sustenabile. Veți câștiga o perspectivă realistă asupra modului în care colegi de breaslă își gestionează timpul și resursele, învățând că succesul este o construcție personală, nu doar o validare instituțională. Este o lectură esențială pentru a găsi inspirație în pragmatism și autenticitate.

Despre autor

Sharon Louden este un artist vizual profesionist stabilit în Brooklyn, a cărei activitate acoperă atât sfera creativă, cât și pe cea de mentorat și editare. Lucrările sale sunt incluse în colecții de prestigiu precum cele de la Whitney Museum of American Art și National Gallery of Art, fiind expuse la nivel internațional în instituții ca Neuberger Museum sau Birmingham Museum of Art. Prin seria Living and Sustaining a Creative Life series, Louden a devenit o voce autoritară în susținerea comunității artistice, oferind instrumente teoretice și practice pentru navigarea pieței de artă contemporană.

Descriere scurtă

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 forty essays collected in Living and Sustaining a Creative Life are written in the artists’ own voices and take the form of narratives, statements, and interviews. Each story is different and unique, but the common thread is an ongoing commitment to creativity, inside and outside the studio. Both day-to-day and big picture details are revealed, showing how it is possible to sustain a creative practice that contributes to the ongoing dialogue in contemporary art. These stories will inform and inspire any student, young artist, and art enthusiast and will help redefine what "success" means to a professional artist.

Notă biografică

Sharon Louden is a practicing, professional artist living and working in Brooklyn. Her work has been exhibited at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Neuberger Museum, and the Weisman Art Museum, among other venues, and it is held in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum, and National Gallery of Art.

Cuprins

 
Preface  Sharon Louden
Introduction  Carter E. Foster
Essays
Adrienne Outlaw
Amanda Church
Amy Pleasant
Annette Lawrence
Austin Thomas
Beth Lipman
Blane De St. Croix
Brian Novatny
Brian Tolle
Carson Fox
David Humphrey
Ellen Harvey
Erik Hanson
George Stoll
Jay Davis             
Jennifer Dalton
Jenny Marketou
Julie Blackmon
Julie Heffernan
Julie Langsam
Justin Quinn
Karin Davie
Kate Shepherd
Laurie Hogin
Maggie Michael and Dan Steinhilber
Maureen Conner
Melissa Porter
Michael Waugh
Michelle Grabner
Peter Drake
Peter Newman
Richard Klein
Sean Mellyn
Sharon L. Butler
The Art Guys
Thomas Kilpper
Timothy Nolan
Tony Ingrisano
Will Cotton
Conclusion
Ed Winkleman and Bill Caroll
Acknowledgements

Recenzii

“Extraordinary. . . . Louden has initiated a public discussion of how an artist can persist. It’s an essential question in a field that no one chooses for its assurance of financial rewards. In many ways, Louden’s book helps us to answer the question, ‘How does an artist make a living today?’ . . . Louden makes an important contribution to the discussion of how art is made now by the vast majority of artists at work. The book is a reality check prompting us to recall that invention doesn’t happen without determination. As these artists’ testimonies so vividly show, history, theory, and criticism are activities dependent ultimately on the hard-won production of art.”

“Contributions range from predictable to shocking, in-control and overwhelmed. Some artists have full-time jobs; many are parents. . . .[Louden is] telling it like it is.”

“A strikingly frank book that removes the veil of mysticism surrounding the artistic life.”

"Consisting of 40 essays, this book presents the realities of the creative life over time, as reported by practicing artists. The stories take the form of interviews, narratives, and statements, and convey in frank, authentic form the joys and challenges of being an artist....Aspiring artists and students will be inspired by these essays, and professionals will see themselves in many of the stories being told. Anyone considering a career in art can profit from reading this book. It also provides insight into the world of art as a commodity, and the challenges of balancing business, relationships, and the creative life....Highly recommended."

"Anyone serious about a career as an artist must read this book."

“Too often the story of how an artist makes art and a living is advertised as either a step into an abyss of debt and dementia or a glamorized Bohemia misunderstood by a general public. Yet what these artists demonstrate in this valuable book is that the common bond for us all who aspire to a well-lived life is blood, sweat, and tears. From artists living off sales of their work to those who teach and those who search for paychecks in odd jobs, the desire to create is never extinguished.”

“From surprisingly frank sharings on the struggles of starting out as young artists to the challenges of making time and space for creation, the artists in Living and Sustaining a Creative Life share with candor and heart just what it takes to be an artist today."

“Sharon Louden has gathered together in this book an exceptionally diverse range of artists’ experiences in order to illustrate, in a manner otherwise inaccessible, the inherent tensions that artists face in constantly balancing their drive to devote core time and energy to creating new work and their wish to share that work with the world with the complexities, as well as the joys, of their personal and family lives.”

“I applaud artist Sharon Louden for assembling this fascinating compilation of artist testimonies. It provides a refreshing, honest look at the myriad ways that artists shape and feed their lives and evolve authentic, generative practices in a society that does not always make it easy for artists to subsist and fully contribute. Living and Sustaining a Creative Life is thus an inspiring, unexpurgated resource for artists beginning their careers as well as any individual seeking to recalibrate his or her daily life to pursue a more purpose-filled existence.”

"Louden’s collection offers valuable lessons on striking a balance between the need to make money and the need to make art; for if making art is the primary concern, making money becomes a means to an end—not the end itself. . . . Though written about the unique experience of fine artists, Living and Sustaining A Creative Life is worth the read by anyone seeking to build a life of artistic intention without ignoring the need for monetary sustenance."

“Louden’s book, Living and Sustaining a Creative Life, is a collection of short personal narratives of 40 female and male working artists, which unfold the everyday realities of balancing the need for being creative with the need for survival. Each story is presented as a small chapter starting with a photograph of a representative artwork. As a result, the book is both interesting to read and visually arresting. The book . . . contribute[s] to an understanding of who artists are and what their work entails.”