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The Resource The work of art : value in creative careers, Alison Gerber

The work of art : value in creative careers, Alison Gerber

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The work of art : value in creative careers
Title
The work of art
Title remainder
value in creative careers
Statement of responsibility
Alison Gerber
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Author
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Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Artists are everywhere, from celebrities showing at MoMA to locals hoping for a spot on a caf w̌all. They are photographed at gallery openings in New York and Los Angeles, hustle in fast-gentrifying cities, and, sometimes, make quiet lives in Midwestern monasteries. Some command armies of fabricators while others patiently teach schoolchildren how to finger-knit. All of these artists might well be shown in the same exhibition, the quality of work far more important than education or income in determining whether one counts as a "real" artist. In The Work of Art, Alison Gerber explores these art worlds to investigate who artists are (and who they're not), why they do the things they do, and whether a sense of vocational calling and the need to make a living are as incompatible as we've been led to believe. Listening to the stories of artists from across the United States, Gerber finds patterns of agreements and disagreements shared by art-makers from all walks of life. For professionals and hobbyists alike, the alliance of love and money has become central to contemporary art-making, and danger awaits those who fail to strike a balance between the two. The stories artists tell are just as much a part of artistic practice as putting brush to canvas or chisel to marble. By explaining the shared ways that artists account for their activities-the analogies they draw, the arguments they make-Gerber reveals the common bases of value artists point to when they say: what I do is worth doing. The Work of Art asks how we make sense of the things we do and shows why all this talk about value matters so much
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Midwest
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Gerber, Alison
Dewey number
700.92
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Series statement
Culture and economic life
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  • Artists
  • Artists
  • Art
Target audience
adult
Label
The work of art : value in creative careers, Alison Gerber
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online resource
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rdacarrier.
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multicolored
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent.
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MWT11945792
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource.
Form of item
  • online
  • electronic
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Digital content provided by hoopla
Isbn
9781503604032
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(electronic bk.)
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computer
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rdamedia.
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  • c
Publisher number
MWT11945792
Specific material designation
remote
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11945792
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Mode of access: World Wide Web
Label
The work of art : value in creative careers, Alison Gerber
Link
Publication
Distribution
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Control code
MWT11945792
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource.
Form of item
  • online
  • electronic
Governing access note
Digital content provided by hoopla
Isbn
9781503604032
Isbn Type
(electronic bk.)
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • c
Publisher number
MWT11945792
Specific material designation
remote
Stock number
11945792
System details
Mode of access: World Wide Web

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