How to Make a Living as a Painter

by Kenneth Harris

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823024008
• ISBN13: 9780823024001
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Book About Life

I'm not an artist, but I read this book when I was a graduate student in another field. It's really a book about life and how to live it, so it's really a useful read for just about anyone. I have thought about this book many times over the years, and always am reminded of it's great and enduring wisdom. I'm here now to buy 2 copies of the book for friends how are artists in New York City and struggling to make a living. They really need this book, and if they apply its principles it will certainly improve their finances and overall quality of life. One other book which I read years ago also has incredible wisdom about money, value and worth. Its called "Money Love." It's worth a search to find it if you are having as much trouble with financial issues as most people have.

A helpful book.

When I graduated ( MA Fine Art) a fellow art student gave me this book intending it to be a joke. I applied what I learned from reading this book and was thereafter successful in marketing my art product. I recommend this book.

Author/artist Kenneth Harris offers a unique perspective.

Kenneth Harris (1904-1983) punctures the pretensions of the dilletante and the high priced snob/artist with this highly readable and often witty book. Harris recommends a pragmatic "what the market will bear" approach to pricing and selling your art. His approach, however, sacrifices none of the artist's honesty and emotional connection to his work. Rather, he advocates getting the art into the hands of the people who want it, at prices they can afford. Harris also gives his opinion and advice on such things as securing an agent, staging one man exhibitions, New York Galleries, entering open exhibits, and others.This is a very useful and perhaps, attitude-changing book.