Stayin' Alive: Survival Tactics for the Visual Artist - Softcover

Hopper, Robin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873495713 ISBN 13: 9780873495714

Publisher: Krause Publications, 2003

Synopsis

Internationally recognized artist and author Robin Hopper details survival strategies for developing a personal lifestyle as a creative artist. The text is a combination of pragmatism, practicality, and philosophy, liberally spiced with humor and anecdotes from Hopper's 45 years of personal experience. This book also incorporates personal life stories of 19 full-time studio artists. Between them, these artists have more than 500 years of studio experience in the art of staying alive.

Stayin' Alive also includes, from four specialists in the field, information on legal and financial matters, how to approach magazine publishers, and tips for photographing work.

About this title

About the Author

Robin Hopper is an internationally recognized ceramic artist, author, educator, consultant and garden designer. Born in London and trained there at Croydon College of Art, he has been working as an artist since 1955. Primarily a studio potter, Hopper has developed studios in both England and Canada, and has working experience on four continents. Hopper is the author of The Ceramic Spectrum and Functional Pottery, and the recently updated and expanded the third edition of Clay and Glazes for the Potter, by the late Daniel Rhodes.

Edition details

• Publisher: Krause Publications
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0873495713
• ISBN 13: 9780873495714
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128