Comments on: Some of my favorite non-fiction book recommendations for continuing your art education https://dy-online.com/some-of-my-favorite-non-fiction-book-recommendations-for-continuing-your-art-education/ Trusted Art Business Coaching and Consulting Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:31:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Starter Moves for When You’re Not Quite Ready to Promote Your Art — Art Biz Blog https://dy-online.com/some-of-my-favorite-non-fiction-book-recommendations-for-continuing-your-art-education/#comment-4917 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 03:52:09 +0000 http://artbizsuccess.com/2008/08/some-of-my-favorite-non-fiction-book-recommendations-for-continuing-your-art-education.html#comment-4917 […] Read about art. Read to understand how people write about art and who is doing the writing. […]

]]> By: Sean Barry https://dy-online.com/some-of-my-favorite-non-fiction-book-recommendations-for-continuing-your-art-education/#comment-4916 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:38:28 +0000 http://artbizsuccess.com/2008/08/some-of-my-favorite-non-fiction-book-recommendations-for-continuing-your-art-education.html#comment-4916 Sean Barry. Whoosp.. posted in the books blog when I meant to post in the doc.]]> In reply to Sean Barry.

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]]> By: Sean Barry https://dy-online.com/some-of-my-favorite-non-fiction-book-recommendations-for-continuing-your-art-education/#comment-4915 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:35:54 +0000 http://artbizsuccess.com/2008/08/some-of-my-favorite-non-fiction-book-recommendations-for-continuing-your-art-education.html#comment-4915 Robert Rauschenberg – Man at Work is a favorite. And I am really looking foward to seeing Beauty is embarrassing.

]]> By: Feel Better About the M Word — Art Biz Blog https://dy-online.com/some-of-my-favorite-non-fiction-book-recommendations-for-continuing-your-art-education/#comment-4914 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:01:41 +0000 http://artbizsuccess.com/2008/08/some-of-my-favorite-non-fiction-book-recommendations-for-continuing-your-art-education.html#comment-4914 […] Marketing is something that direct-mailers and telemarketers do. They didn’t teach marketing in art school and you certainly won’t read about it in art history books or artist biographies. […]

]]> By: Art Marketing Action + Podcast: Devote 15 Minutes a Day to . . . — Art Biz Blog https://dy-online.com/some-of-my-favorite-non-fiction-book-recommendations-for-continuing-your-art-education/#comment-4913 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:50:25 +0000 http://artbizsuccess.com/2008/08/some-of-my-favorite-non-fiction-book-recommendations-for-continuing-your-art-education.html#comment-4913 […] Reading about art […]

]]> By: Alyson Stanfield https://dy-online.com/some-of-my-favorite-non-fiction-book-recommendations-for-continuing-your-art-education/#comment-4912 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:35:31 +0000 http://artbizsuccess.com/2008/08/some-of-my-favorite-non-fiction-book-recommendations-for-continuing-your-art-education.html#comment-4912 Penelope: The Scully book is a good one. I haven’t read it cover-to-cover, but it has good stuff in it. His retrospective is still one of my favorites of all time. I’ll have to check out The Painter’s Studio. I’m a fan of Mehretu’s work.

]]> By: penelope rothfield https://dy-online.com/some-of-my-favorite-non-fiction-book-recommendations-for-continuing-your-art-education/#comment-4911 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:02:33 +0000 http://artbizsuccess.com/2008/08/some-of-my-favorite-non-fiction-book-recommendations-for-continuing-your-art-education.html#comment-4911 If you are a painter I think you would love to read “Sean Scully: Resistance and Persistence, Selected Writings” ed by Florence Ingleby and “Inside The Painter’s Studio” by Joe Fig. In the “Painter’s Studio” by Fig, there is a quote from Julie Mehretu that I find very inspiring–she said, “Really follow the work and go really deeply and honestly into your work and yourself as an individual. Your work should take care of you. Make really good and really interesting work and go after that instead of trying to find some formula to guide your work by. You are the best guide for your work and its path.” It is very good to read these words esp. after a critique…I agree with the tip of the day (work at for 15 minutes in your studio)–EVERY DAY I do something even if it is just reading about art–I do something to stay connected and it helps me a great deal…Thanks for your blog and newsletter..it is very useful.

]]> By: Casey Klahn https://dy-online.com/some-of-my-favorite-non-fiction-book-recommendations-for-continuing-your-art-education/#comment-4910 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:36:24 +0000 http://artbizsuccess.com/2008/08/some-of-my-favorite-non-fiction-book-recommendations-for-continuing-your-art-education.html#comment-4910 Alyson, the (daunting) books by Spurling about Matisse are the subject of my posts right now. I am reviewing the books, in case you want to see if they’re worth the effort. My answer to that: yes!

]]> By: Alyson B. Stanfield https://dy-online.com/some-of-my-favorite-non-fiction-book-recommendations-for-continuing-your-art-education/#comment-4909 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:51:38 +0000 http://artbizsuccess.com/2008/08/some-of-my-favorite-non-fiction-book-recommendations-for-continuing-your-art-education.html#comment-4909 Rebecca: Thanks for another recommendation. Boy, I ordered 5 books (or 6!) today and I’ll be well stocked for the rest of the year, but what a great resource everyone has been. And, Rebecca, this one is totally new to me.

]]> By: Rebecca Crowell https://dy-online.com/some-of-my-favorite-non-fiction-book-recommendations-for-continuing-your-art-education/#comment-4908 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:37:50 +0000 http://artbizsuccess.com/2008/08/some-of-my-favorite-non-fiction-book-recommendations-for-continuing-your-art-education.html#comment-4908 I recommend the three memoirs written by sculptor Anne Truitt–Daybook, Turn and Prospect. I’ve read and re-read them at different times in my life, finding that her experiences so often resonated with corresponding stages in my own art life. Not that I’ve had her famous career!! But that isn’t the main narrative anyway–instead it’s the little stories and observations about life as a artist, the studio struggles and equally so her life outside the studio, her feelings surrounding exhibitions and sales of her work. Her descriptions of being a young mother while determinedly making art were very inspiring to me in my 30s, for example. She wrote in a very personal, warm but always professional voice. I read Daybook and loved it before I ever saw a single one of her sculptures, so familiarity with her art is not a prerequisite.

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