Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in Funding the Creative Life
The author of Daily Rituals turns from how artists worked to how they paid for it: patrons, day jobs, spouses, inheritances, grants and a great deal of debt.
Currey collected the working routines of artists in Daily Rituals, and here asks the harder question of who was paying for them. Patrons, teaching posts, spouses with salaries, inheritances, grants and debt all appear, and the accumulation makes clear how rarely the work supported itself. Anecdotal by design, and franker about money than most books on the creative life.
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Tyler Cowen
The best overall book I know on the different methods top artists have used to keep themselves going financially. It is perhaps more anecdotal and less theoretical than I would prefer, still a nice work.
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