How to Enter the Art World: After a Late Start, a First Career, Illness, Raising Children, a Crisis of Confidence, Leaving It in Disgust...

Hardcover

A guide for anyone whose trajectory through the art world isn't a smooth upward curve, based on years of research with art professionals.

'Vital guidance for all artists. Empowering, encouraging and enlightening. Hettie Judah writes with such clarity and passion.' - Robert Diament, writer and broadcaster, Talk Art podcast

'Accessible, reassuring, useful and funny... I loved this book so much and needed it so badly, I practically inhaled it!' - Viv Albertine, musician, artist and author

Can you make it without going to art school? Can you get back into the art world after years away? What does 'success' actually mean?

How to Enter the Art World... is a grown-up guide for any artist whose life is complicated, demanding and, well, human. Informed by years spent working with artists and dozens of candid interviews, it is a myth-busting bonanza full of insights, ideas and inspiration. Frank, funny and occasionally forthright, this is your friend on the path (back) into the art world.

0.71" H x 7.41" L x 5.01" W

176 pages