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The Business of Art & Craft
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Art and Fear
by:
David Bayles
3.77 avg rating โ 100,511 ratings
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The Handmade Marketplace: How to Sell Your Crafts Locally, Globally, and On-Line
by:
Kari Chapin
3.82 avg rating โ 1,584 ratings
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The Right-Brain Business Plan: A Creative, Visual Map for Success
by:
Jennifer Lee
4.03 avg rating โ 679 ratings
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How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist: Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul
by:
Caroll Michels
3.80 avg rating โ 314 ratings
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The Value of Art: Money, Power, Beauty
by:
Michael Findlay
4.05 avg rating โ 552 ratings
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ART/WORK: Everything You Need to Know (and Do) As You Pursue Your Art Career
by:
Heather Darcy Bhandari
4.20 avg rating โ 1,243 ratings
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Getting Your Sh*t Together: A Professional Practices Manual for Artists
by:
Karen Atkinson
3.83 avg rating โ 6 ratings
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Starting Your Career as an Artist: A Guide for Painters, Sculptors, Photographers, and Other Visual Artists
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Angie Wojak
3.83 avg rating โ 24 ratings
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The Art Business
by:
Iain Robertson
3.69 avg rating โ 29 ratings
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Taking the Leap: Building a Career as a Visual Artist
by:
Cay Lang
3.85 avg rating โ 151 ratings
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The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love
by:
Jackie Battenfield
3.98 avg rating โ 337 ratings
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Market Yourself: A Marketing System for Smart and Creative Business Owners
by:
Tara Swiger
4.69 avg rating โ 26 ratings
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I'd Rather Be in the Studio!: The Artist's No-excuse Guide to Self-promotion
by:
Alyson B. Stanfield
4.10 avg rating โ 312 ratings
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Creative, Inc.: The Ultimate Guide to Running a Successful Freelance Business
by:
Meg Mateo Ilasco
3.83 avg rating โ 1,132 ratings
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Selling Art Without Galleries: Toward Making a Living from Your Art
by:
Daniel Grant
3.64 avg rating โ 25 ratings
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The Successful Artist's Career Guide: Finding Your Way in the Business of Art
by:
Margaret Peot
3.88 avg rating โ 33 ratings
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The Business of Being an Artist
by:
Daniel Grant
3.68 avg rating โ 73 ratings
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Making It in the Art World: New Approaches to Galleries, Shows, and Raising Money
by:
Brainard Carey
3.59 avg rating โ 179 ratings
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A Pocket Business Guide for Artists & Designers: 100 Things You Need to Know
by:
Alison Branagan
3.85 avg rating โ 13 ratings
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Fine Art Publicity: The Complete Guide for Artists, Galleries, and Museums
by:
Susan Abbott
3.34 avg rating โ 29 ratings
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The Essential Guide to Business for Artists and Designers - Revised and Updated
by:
Alison Branagan
4.28 avg rating โ 29 ratings
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How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery
by:
Edward Winkleman
3.99 avg rating โ 105 ratings
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Arts & Numbers: A Financial Guide for Artists, Writers, Performers, and Other Members of the Creative Class
by:
Elaine Grogan Luttrull
4.08 avg rating โ 62 ratings
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Arts Law Conversations: A Surprisingly Readable Guide for Arts Entrepreneurs
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Elizabeth T. Russell
4.56 avg rating โ 9 ratings
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How to Price Crafts and Things You Make to Sell -- Formulas and Strategies for Arriving at Profitable Craft Prices for Selling Online or Off, Wholesale or Retail
by:
James Dillehay
4.50 avg rating โ 12 ratings
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Craft Business Power: 15 Days To A Profitable Craft Business
by:
Jason Miles
3.85 avg rating โ 139 ratings
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Arts & Crafts Shows: The Top 10 Mistakes Artist Vendors Make... And How to Avoid Them!
by:
Michael Delaware
3.78 avg rating โ 9 ratings
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Art Licensing 101
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Michael Woodward
4.50 avg rating โ 4 ratings
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20 Steps To Art Licensing: How to Sell Your Designs to Card and Gift Companies
by:
Kate Harper
3.70 avg rating โ 30 ratings
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Licensing Art and Design: A Professional's Guide to Licensing and Royalty Agreements
by:
Caryn R. Leland
4.05 avg rating โ 21 ratings
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Licensing Art 101: Publishing and Licensing Your Artwork for Profit
by:
Michael Woodward
3.96 avg rating โ 26 ratings
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How To Start Making Your Art Your Business: 100 DIY Tips
by:
Tamara Holland
3.41 avg rating โ 17 ratings
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I Just Like to Make Things: Learn the Secrets to Making Money while Staying Passionate about your Art and Craft
by:
Lilla Rogers
3.86 avg rating โ 184 ratings
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Guerrilla Marketing for Artists
by:
Barney Davey
3.78 avg rating โ 23 ratings
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The Exhibition Guru - the Art of Exhibiting at Trade Shows and How to Make Money From It
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Mikael Jansson
3.25 avg rating โ 4 ratings
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The Artist-Gallery Partnership: A Practical Guide to Consigning Art
by:
Tad Crawford
3.47 avg rating โ 34 ratings
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The Supermodel and the Brillo Box: Back Stories and Peculiar Economics from the World of Contemporary Art
by:
Don Thompson
3.86 avg rating โ 279 ratings
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Ancient Wisdom: Emerging Artist: The Business Plan (not just) for the Mature Artist
by:
Sue Favinger Smith
4.33 avg rating โ 3 ratings
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Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art
by:
Olav Velthuis
4.09 avg rating โ 75 ratings
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Art Fairs: 10 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started
by:
Michelle Geromel
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating โ 1 rating
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Blogging for Creatives: How designers, artists, crafters and writers can blog to make contacts, win business and build success
by:
Robin Houghton
3.61 avg rating โ 293 ratings
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How to Make A Great Soy Jar Candle: Revealing My Favorite Candle Suppliers
by:
Amber Richards
3.74 avg rating โ 47 ratings
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Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits
by:
Debbie Millman
3.86 avg rating โ 876 ratings
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Sam Maloof: 36 Views of a Master Woodworker
by:
Fred Setterberg
4.35 avg rating โ 20 ratings
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Art-Write: The Writing Guide for Visual Artists
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Vicki Krohn Amorose
4.35 avg rating โ 211 ratings
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PMO Governance: Practical Strategies to Govern Portfolio, Program, and Project Delivery
by:
Eugen Spivak
4.50 avg rating โ 22 ratings
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Making It: The Artist's Survival Guide
by:
Jaลกa Jaลกa
3.09 avg rating โ 11 ratings
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Open a Profitable Home Business Crafting Beautiful 3D Picture Frames: Turn Your Creativity Into Cash: Launch a Home-Based 3D Picture Frame Business Today
by:
Amber Richards
3.27 avg rating โ 11 ratings
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The Everything Guide to Selling Arts & Crafts Online: How to sell on Etsy, eBay, your storefront, and everywhere else online (Everythingยฎ Series)
by:
Kim Solga
3.95 avg rating โ 79 ratings
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The Craft Business Handbook: The Essential Guide To Making Money from Your Crafts and Handmade Products
by:
Alison McNicol
3.90 avg rating โ 48 ratings
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How to Make a Crafty Income: A guide to selling at craft fairs and other events
by:
Brenda Hunt
3.33 avg rating โ 3 ratings
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Make Money At Art Shows And Craft Fairs
by:
A.B. Petrow
3.75 avg rating โ 4 ratings
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Art Festival Guide: The Artist's Guide to Selling in Art Festivals
by:
Maria Arango
3.88 avg rating โ 16 ratings
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Art Marketing 101: A Handbook for the Fine Artist
by:
Constance Smith
3.51 avg rating โ 94 ratings
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The Artist's Guide to Selling Work
by:
Annabelle Ruston
3.68 avg rating โ 19 ratings
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Making A Living Without Making Pipes
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Milon Townsend
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating โ 1 rating
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New Markets for Artists: How to Sell, Fund Projects, and Exhibit Using Social Media, DIY Pop-Ups, eBay, Kickstarter, and Much More
by:
Brainard Carey
3.12 avg rating โ 59 ratings
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Seven Days in the Art World
by:
Sarah Thornton
3.62 avg rating โ 69,390 ratings
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The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture
by:
Hal Foster
3.97 avg rating โ 1,275 ratings
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The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
by:
Charles Baudelaire
3.91 avg rating โ 2,018 ratings
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The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture and Literature
by:
Josรฉ Ortega y Gasset
3.81 avg rating โ 1,324 ratings
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The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths
by:
Rosalind E. Krauss
4.08 avg rating โ 769 ratings
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Your Everyday Art World
by:
Lane Relyea
3.82 avg rating โ 34 ratings
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Writings on Art
by:
Mark Rothko
3.94 avg rating โ 192 ratings
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The Art Forger
by:
Barbara A. Shapiro
3.75 avg rating โ 91,770 ratings
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Aesthetics and Politics
by:
Theodor W. Adorno
4.12 avg rating โ 2,296 ratings
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The Art Spirit
by:
Robert Henri
3.90 avg rating โ 25,331 ratings
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Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
by:
Rudolf Arnheim
4.08 avg rating โ 3,946 ratings
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Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
by:
E.H. Gombrich
4.04 avg rating โ 6,024 ratings
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Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures
by:
Robert K. Wittman
3.83 avg rating โ 10,207 ratings
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The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa
by:
Michael Kimmelman
3.90 avg rating โ 3,175 ratings
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Art as Experience
by:
John Dewey
3.94 avg rating โ 5,774 ratings
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Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism
by:
Hal Foster
4.27 avg rating โ 624 ratings
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Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists
by:
Robert Hughes
4.04 avg rating โ 1,125 ratings
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Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting
by:
Barry Schwabsky
4.04 avg rating โ 3,861 ratings
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The Painter
by:
Peter Heller
3.83 avg rating โ 16,592 ratings