Posts Tagged ‘Poor Artists’
Not so suddenly… research.
It was wrong of me to suggest that research in the arts sector has been fatally tainted by self-interest, as I did in my last post. The problem is with the definition of self-interest. If a particular "self" has a problem that it needs addressed, then it helps if that "self" can demonstrate that the problem is real, show its dimensions, origins, [...]
Why Are Artists Poor? 1
Hans Abbing's book Why Are Artists Poor? The Exceptional Economy of the Arts is a book that every art student, artist, art educator, curator, critic and arts administer should read. That's what it was designed for and its observations are exacting and uncompromising. I don't agree with Abbing's conclusions, but then that is what good books do: [...]
