The Business of Art

by Lee Caplin

Book Overview

Chapters in this guidebook reveal how internationally known artists, dealers and other experts handle today's art environment. Topics includes: insurance, contracts, art in public places, corporate... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735200130
• ISBN13: 9780735200135
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Press
• Length: 359 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The Book Every Artist Should Have On Their Bookshelf

This is the best book I've come across in my reading and researching on business topics for artists. No book is perfect, the be all end all, magic trick to make you famous and successful and no book can be. You have to do the work and this book is a perfect guide. I found the chapter on Estate and Gift Planning very helpful and entertaining with stories and examples of famous artists who's estates almost wound up in disaster because of their shoddy estate planning - it also goes into Gift Tax planning and your art as taxable valuable property and why. The chapter on Copyright was right on target. This is a comprehensive subject and admittedly this book was written in the late 90's before artists were really considering the internet a serious issue but the laws still apply. Such a valuable book. Read it cover to cover and use it as a reference as well.

Author recounts book's success

When I was Special Assistant Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, visual artists had few ways to support themselves except for grants. Apart from the special few, little hope existed for selling their art, and most artists had no idea of how to "go about it." I assembled an internationally respected group of artists, dealers, art lawyers and accountants and put them in front of tens of thousands of artists nationwide. Through questions and answers, speeches and demonstations, a distilled book's worth of unique knowledge and advice came into being. Unlike any other books that give one artist's opinion, or one "art advisor's advice" this book does something different: the straight story comes directly from the most outstanding and respected authorities in the field. No other book does this. No other authority can provide this knowledge in a single volume. The Business of Art is now the basis for college level courses on the business side of art. There is also a companion video sold by Phoenix Flms at 800-221-1274. Used together, they provide artists and art groups with a wealth of learning material for either immediate use or continuing education of artists worldwide.