Irreverent and inspiring advice for awakening your creative potential, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic.Jerry Saltz is one of the most influential-and popular-culture writers working today. As the witty and passionate chief art critic for New York magazine, he is approached constantly by artists, both amateur and professional, asking him for advice: How do I get started? How do I get better? Is what I'm doing even art at all? They want to know, in short, how to be an artist. Now, expanding on his viral cover story for New York magazine-and drawing on his decades of immersion in the art world-Jerry Saltz has the answers. How to Be An Artist is an indispensable book of practical inspiration for creative people of all kinds. Brimming with dozens of brand new rules, prompts, exercises, and tips (Tell Your Own Story and You Will Be Interesting; Imagination Is More Important than Knowledge; Make Art for Now, Not for the Future; and Finish the Damn Thing!) designed to break through creative blocks, ignite motivation, conquer bad habits, and help artists of all kinds-painters, photographers, writers, performers-realize their dreams. This beautiful and useful small-format hardcover-teeming with full-color art, sidebars, and contributions from art-world legends and everyday creatives-How to Be an Artist is a book for anyone who's ever yearned to make the arts a part of their life.

How to Be an Artist

Arts & Photography

Saltz, Jerry

History & Criticism

Riverhead Books

From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of How to Be an Artist:&nbsp;a deliciously readable survey of the art world in turbulent times Jerry Saltz is one of our most-watched writers about art and artists, and a passionate champion of the importance of art in our shared cultural life. Since the 1990s he has been an indispensable cultural voice: witty and provocative, he has attracted contemporary readers to fine art as few critics have. An early champion of forgotten and overlooked women artists, he has also celebrated the pioneering work of African American, LGBTQ+, and other long-marginalized creators. Sotheby's Institute of Art has called him, simply,&nbsp;"the art critic."&nbsp; &nbsp; Now, in Art Is Life, Jerry Saltz draws on two decades of work to offer a real-time survey of contemporary art as a barometer of our times. Chronicling a period punctuated by dramatic turning points--from the cultural reset of 9/11 to the rolling social crises of today--Saltz traces how visionary artists have both documented and challenged the culture. Art Is Life offers&nbsp;Saltz's eye-opening appraisals of trailblazers like Kara Walker, David Wojnarowicz, Hilma af Klint, and Jasper Johns; provocateurs like Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, and Marina Abramovi&#263;; and visionaries like Jackson Pollock, Bill Traylor, and Willem de Kooning. Saltz celebrates landmarks like the Obama portraits by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, writes searchingly about disturbing moments such as the Ankara gallery assassination, and offers surprising takes on figures from Thomas Kinkade to Kim Kardashian. And he shares stories of his own haunted childhood, his time as a "failed artist," and his epiphanies upon beholding work by Botticelli, Delacroix, and the cave painters of Niaux.&nbsp; &nbsp; With his signature blend of candor and conviction, Jerry Saltz argues in Art Is Life for the importance of the fearless artist--reminding us that art is a kind of channeled voice of human experience, a necessary window onto our times. The result is an openhearted and irresistibly readable appraisal by one of our most important cultural observers.

Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night

A gem brought back into print, Sketchbook with Voices puts a postmodern spin on the classic artist's journal. Gleaned from a series of interviews between the authors and artists, this sketchbook is packed with assignments and points of entry that encourage exploration. Art and design enthusiasts will be enamored of the roster of 60 of today's leading voices in contemporary artâ€”including John Baldessari, Chuck Close, Barbara Kruger, Richard Serra, and Cindy Sherman. While the stars of postmodern practice provide the inspiration, the empty space inside these pages invites the user to draft ideas in whatever form they may take!

Sketchbook With Voices

Fischl, Eric

Reference

Vanderbilt Univ Dept of

Looks at recent paintings, sculpture, and photographs by New York artists, and shares brief statements by each individual

Beyond Boundaries: New York's New Art

Smith, Roberta

Halley, Peter

Harpercollins

Commotion: Martin Kersels : Madison Art Center, Wisconsin, December 7, 1997-February 15, 1998 : Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, June 13-August

Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens

Kamps, Toby

Wheaton, Mark

Madison Art Center

Kersels, Martin

Abstraction in Contemporary Photography

Grundberg, Andy

Photography & Video

Anderson Gallery

―In this sequel to his acclaimed 2003 collection, Seeing Out Loud, critic Jerry Saltz offers more of his unique take on the good, the bad, and the very bad in contemporary art Saltz, senior art critic for New York magazine and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, has an unsparing eye, a deep love of the art world, respect for artists, self-deprecating humor, and the most readable, entertaining writing style of any critic working today. In this volume, he looks at the most recent extravagances at the nexus of art and money, and asks, now that the money is gone, how might art and the art world put their house in order?

Seeing Out Louder

Hudson Hills

"Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz's new book on creativity. . . . This book is for the artist or non-artist, for the person who gets plain English, for the person who understands that practical talk can coax out the mystical messages that lie underneath." —Steve Martin\nArt has the power to change our lives. For many, becoming an artist is a lifelong dream. But how to make it happen? In How to Be an Artist, Jerry Saltz, one of the art world’s most celebrated and passionate voices, offers an indispensable handbook for creative people of all kinds.\nFrom the first sparks of inspiration—and how to pursue them without giving in to self-doubt—Saltz offers invaluable insight into what really matters to emerging artists: originality, persistence, a balance between knowledge and intuition, and that most precious of qualities, self-belief. Brimming with rules, prompts, and practical tips, How to Be an Artist gives artists new ways to break through creative blocks, get the most from materials, navigate career challenges, and above all find joy in the work.\nTeeming with full-color artwork from visionaries ancient and modern, this beautiful and useful book will help artists of all kinds—painters, photographers, writers, performers—realize their dreams.

How to Be an Artist /anglais

ILEX

Elizabeth Murray has radically altered the structure of Modernist painting. Her shaped and constructed canvases, often topologically modeled in three dimensions or fitted together out of multiple jigsaw-like parts, treat figure and ground in unprecedented ways, giving the elastic shapes of classic Surrealism a space in their own image. The alternatively comfortable and cataclysmic world that her images depict would crack irrevocably if it followed Euclidean logic; instead; it constantly metamorphoses under stress. With a chaptered essay by Robert Storr, plate section, and in-depth interview, the book will explore Murray's relation to artists such as Joan Mir , Stuart Davis, Claes Oldenburg and Frank Stella, as well as to the mainstream and opened up options for rising generations. This book accompanies the most detailed examination of Murray's art yet mounted, showing its development from Pop-oriented reliefs in the 1960s to the extraordinary volumetric of her recent work.

Elizabeth Murray: New Paintings

Locks Gallery

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