Art & Art History

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This handy pocket guide answers the most pressing questions artists and designers will have when setting up an art practice or creative business. Many visual artists who graduate from art school need to learn how to be self-employed or form a company. This book presents 100 useful business related things that any creative should know. The book is divided into five sections that will help artists and designers achieve success and make money from their work: business, promotion, legal and copyright concerns, money and last thoughts.

Artists Rights Society (ARS) is an organization that represents the intellectual property rights, including the copyrights, of more than 50,000 visual artists worldwide. This book provides an updated report examining the issues surrounding visual artists and resale royalties in the United States, and also is an adjunct to the Office's 1992 report, Droit de Suite: The Artist's Resale Royalty, and takes into account changes in law and practice over the past two decades. It also provides further detail on the Equity for Visual Artists Act of 2011.

The arts and creative sector is one of the nation's broadest, most important, and least understood social and economic assets, encompassing both nonprofit arts and cultural organizations, for-profit creative companies, such as advertising agencies, film producers, and commercial publishers, and community-based artistic activities. The thirteen essays in this timely book demonstrate why interest in the arts and creative sector has accelerated in recent years, and the myriad ways that the arts are crucial to the social and national agenda and the critical issues and policies that relate to their practice.