Ways of Being: Advice for Artists by Artists

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What if you could sit down with your favourite artist and ask them anything you liked - Life Work Inspiration Based on new interviews and archival material from a huge roster of artists, this book does exactly that. Is art a 'career', a vocation or something else entirely Do you need a studio or a dealer, and how do you find one Does financial success - or the lack of it - change you Should you read the reviews Encompassing every stage of an artist's life - from early works to debut shows and mid- and late-career stages - this book allows artists to answer these key questions.

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"the book is hugely entertaining, with a wide rage of voices set in vivid counterpoint" -- TLS

Author Bio

James Cahill is a writer and critic based in London who has written for Apollo, The Burlington Magazine, CURA, Elephant, Frieze, The Los Angeles Review of Books, London Review of Books and Times Literary Supplement. In 2017 he completed a PhD at Cambridge University examining the relationship between contemporary art and classical antiquity.