Our new book, The Art Life: On Creativity and Career by Stuart Horodner, brings together words of wisdom about the philosophical and practical issues that affect art-making and the marketplace. Many of the contributors have taken part in exhibitions and programs at ACAC from 2007 to 2011. Read more, in reviews by Stephanie Cash in Art in America, and by Rebecca Dimling Cochran on ArtsATL.com, and on our blog.
The Art Life: On Creativity and Career
© 2012 Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
183 pages, 39 color images
$25.00
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The Art Life: On Creativity and Career is a collection of solicited and selected texts that address the philosophical and practical issues that affect art-making and the marketplace. It brings together visual artists, curators, dealers, writers, musicians, architects, actors, and educators, who speak to their internal motivations, influences and processes, and to their external engagements with community, audience, career and success. Many of the contributors have taken part in exhibitions and public programs at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center from 2007 to 2011, and others have been included to represent provocative historical and contemporary viewpoints by a range of influential figures. The texts are joined by images of artists in the midst of creating or installing, as well as completed art works.
A life in the arts can be simultaneously rewarding, frustrating, doubt-filled, joyful and uncertain. And yet, thousands of artists persist every day, motivated by a private insistency and the promise of satisfaction and recognition. Each is attempting to combine their creative life with a thriving career, and this publication provides various “words of wisdom” which can serve to inspire, challenge, and reassure them. The Art Life posits that each creative individual must find the necessary information and materials to best establish their unique voice. The book is as much found as written, a heady mix of opinions and questions that can be used in classrooms and studios by artists of all ages.
Contributors include Bill Albertini, Nubar Alexanian, Regine Basha, bldgs, Daniel Bozhkov, Matt Bryans, Luis Camnitzer, Brad Cloepfil, Jennifer Coates, David Diao, Craig Drennen, Daniel Duford, Nicole Eisenman, Harrell Fletcher, Matthew Higgs, Mike Howard, David Humphrey, Jennie C. Jones, Nina Katchadourian, Wayne Koestenbaum, Anya Liftig, Judy Linn, François Morelli, Michael David Murphy, Eileen Myles, Karyn Olivier, Fahamu Pecou, William Pope.L, Padgett Powell, Nancy Princenthal, Paul Ramírez Jonas, Shana Robbins, Michael Rooks, Amanda Ross-Ho, Tad Savinar, Stephen Schofield, Mira Schor, Paul Shambroom, Harry Shearer, Lisa Sigal, Susan Silton, Joe Sola, Tony Tasset, Nato Thompson, Jack Whitten.
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