This may not be the worst time in history to make money from art, but it is certainly the strangest. The institutions and markets that have long supported the arts are undergoing radical transformation, and some are even disappearing. At the same time, the tools for making art and finding an audience are more available than ever, and the number of artists today is greater than ever before.How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists is an attempt to explore the history of money in the arts - from Titian to Taylor Swift - and how this complex relationship is changing.
David Berry analyzes past and present financial dynamics in the arts to show the practicalities of how artists make a living and how this in turn affects the reception and perception of artists and their works: the effects that art has on wider society, how economic realities influence aesthetic judgments of art, and whatThe type of people who are able to work as artists, and how political and cultural ideas about the nature of art influence the type of resources available to it.
David Perry explores how art has become central to our understanding of humanity by linking art to what moves the world: money. In the process, he questions common ideas about what constitutes a successful artistic career, and reflects on the implications of our treatment of artists for ourselves.Perfectly timely in the wake of the Creative Age, Perry's book brilliantly deconstructs the delicate balance between art and commerce, offering both novices and experts insight into the perilous path that artists of all disciplines must tread.
