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All Artists who want their work in a gallery, get this book!.......2007-08-02
Excellent advice for artists on how to get into galleries and get your name out there! Read it cover to cover (and you will because you'll love it) the minute it arrives!
Follow its advice because it works!
To get hung?.......2006-09-23
Little of this advice helps you to get hung. Some may put a noose around their neck after following her advice. It doesn't work. She was one of the first to advice artists to get on the internet.You may not succeed getting a show,but you can sell on the internet. I have! The advice she gives isn't from the pesrpective of a professional but, more of a sophisticate.When I first started showing my work . There were no books on exhibiting. I was successful . One show I got was when I was showing my work to the dealer. Someone came in and bought three . Another gallery gave em show because they could see I could paint. I took in originals.I have gotten shows with slides. I use a professional photographer.I hired a secretary to type an opening letter of inquiry for a mailing of many galleries, art centers.. Drew up a list of galleries.. mostly alternative galleries. Had good duplicates made. You couldn't tell them from the original. They were impressed with my resume. Send your slides every chance you can get. There was a time when any good artist could get a show. Unfortunately that is no longer the case
In a word: lame........2002-08-20
If you take out all the name-dropping and pointless anecdotes, there isn't much left to this book. What little advice it contains on the subject of succeeding as an artist seems to fall under the heading of common sense. (If you want to be a famous artist, move to New York, go to lots of galleries, talk to lots of people. It helps to look nice, and dating a famous artist doesn't hurt either. Do we really need an expert to tell us these things?) What little practical advice there is on subjects like having slides made of your work or sending out press releases is so general that it is of little use. These subjects are covered much better in lots of other books, Art Marketing 101 by Constance Smith and How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist by Caroll Michels to name a couple. One bit of advice from the author made me laugh out loud. She stresses the importance of proofreading a press release before you send it out (good idea!), yet it is obvious that this book was not proofread. There are so many typographical, spelling, and/or grammatical errors that at times I felt as if I were grading a high school term paper.
You could have hung... yourself........2001-07-16
From all the great AND SUCCESSFUL artists I have learned, the most important message that is conveyed to me by them essentially is "be yourself". This book suggests otherwise. Here are some insights from the book to "get hung":
- Your look: The book suggests the artists go for an "art look", experiment new looks until "your style will emerge".
- Your location: Moving to New York.
- Your source of finance (to support your art endeaver): marry rich, work in an art-related occupation (not bad, but can we all do this?)
- etc... I dropped the book at the end of chapter 2, after the suggestion of "moving to New York".
All in all, the book consists of short examples of people who succeeded in selling their art to prove the author's points. At the end of each chapter, a list of bullet points is shown to recap. Valuable points presented in the book, such as networking, open-minded to critique, etc... are too basic for any discipline when it comes to marketing. Unfortunately, these cannot save the rest of the book.
In my opinion, this book is NOT for a mature and responsible artist audience who has to break their back working odd jobs, yet still obsesses about art and making art.
The best book for understanding the soul of the art world.......1999-08-02
Molly Barnes and Pat Hilton, have created a very straight forward and truthful book on how to aproach the art world and what it takes to be successful in it. This book is pefect for imerging artists as well as a reminder to many succesfull artists on what it is to get hung.
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How to Get Hung: A Practical Guide for Emerging Artists
Molly Branes
Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
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ASIN: 0756795966 |
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Isak Dinesen's Art: The Gayety of Vision (A Phoenix Book ; P628)
Robert Woodrow Langbaum
Manufacturer: Univ of Chicago Pr (Tx)
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Weird New England (Weird)
Joseph A. Citro
Manufacturer: Sterling
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ASIN: 1402733305 |
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An entertaining read........2007-07-25
This book is generally a fun and quirky read, as long as it's not taken TOO seriously. This book reminds us that there remains an abundant number of odd and quirky tales of people, places, events and downright weird things in New England that add to the region's character. Weird New England is a book you can pick up and flip through when the everyday world gets too depressing and overbearing.
The book is not without its fault and some of the errors can be downright annoying to the knowledgeable New Englander. First, there are misspellings of town names, for example the book mentions "Abingdon, MA", which does not exist, but there is an Abington. Some of the "unexplained" structures or buildings described in the book have in fact been well-explained, but again no one should take this book as a serious reference. One serious error does need to be addressed regarding what ancient Greeks and others termed the "music of the spheres". The books states that the term referred to mysterious musical sounds while in fact the ancient scholars where referring to the orderly movement of the sun, moon and planets in what they believed where fixed spheres.
A little Sad.......2007-05-22
I have only read one entry in this book after hearing that a certain family in Danbury CT was written about. I found the entry to be very cruel towards these people. As someone who had run into this family on several occasions 20 years ago at a diner and "The Finest". They did not deserve the treatment received in this book given the fact they are/were most likely suffering from a genetic disorder.
Good book.......2007-05-14
The book is full of color pics and quircky urban legends, ghost stories, and strange histories from New England.
Another must for Joseph Citro fans........2007-04-13
After receiving Weird US as a Christmas gift. I had to have more. To my surprise Weird New England was written by my favorite author Joseph Citro, and I wasn't disappointed.
I loved this entertaining guide through the unusual places and tales of New England.
If you are looking for a real travel guide of New England this may not be the book for you, but if you want a fun read this is an excellent choice.
colorful, fantastical, mesmerizing.......2006-09-23
I just loved this book. The "weird" series that Mark and Mark have hatched are all a lot of fun. But the real magic of this New England edition boils down to the peerless writing of Joseph Citro, a legendary New England author whose supernatural tales predate the Mark and Mark phenomenon by many years. Citro's mastery of the genre is at full tilt here, made all the more tingle-producing through color-filled pages and special effects.
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Here are three of the filthiest-and yet, in their own way, sweetest—screenplays ever written: Pink Flamingos, Desperate Living, and Flamingos Forever. Intermixed with the scripts are dozens of classic stills from the films.
In Pink Flamingos, Waters's muse and leading lady, Divine, a 300-pound cross-dresser who could turn your stomach in one scene and break your heart in the next, competes with her family for the title of "filthiest people alive"—as readers will see, it's really anyone's game. Desperate Living is a perverse fairy tale featuring gun-toting lesbians, leather-clad castle guards, and a repulsive queen who has her own daughter gang-raped among other atrocities. Flamingos Forever is the unproduced sequel to Pink Flamingos, set fifteen years after the original, when the rivalry for "filthiest people alive" is revived; it was never filmed, Waters tells us, because by the time it was written, too many of the original cast had died—this book is the only chance for Water's fans to read it.
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This carefully graded solo collection features artistic, challenging and beautiful violin solos from works by noted composers. While these pieces will be challenging for the intermediate violinist, they contain no double stops. Includes great themes from the works of Albinoni, Handel, MacDowell, Offenbach, Tschaikovsky, Schumann, Purcell, Vivaldi, Mendelssohn, Waldteufel, and Mozart. A keyboard accompaniment is included for each piece. These pieces are an excellent supplement to any violin method.
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A variety of new and expanded Lodges for those that want more factions in their Werewolf games........2006-09-14
Lodges: The Faithful does exactly what it sets out to do, and that's a good thing. This book provides much greater detail to the 10 lodges introduced in the Werewolf: The Forsaken core book and provides 10 new lodges as well. In addition the book also provides information on other, one might say evil, Werewolf organizations similar to lodges. Lodge creation rules and a good if simple discussion on the role of lodges round out this product, making it an excellent self contained addition to the Werewolf line.
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Lyrics to camping songs, many written about the Yellowstone Camps. Undated but definitely 1928-1936.
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Historic structures report, historical data sections, Lake Hotel, Lake Lodge, Roosevelt Lodge, Old Faithful Lodge, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
James Mote
Manufacturer: Denver Service Center, Historic Preservation Branch, Midwest/Rocky Mountain Team, National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior
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TEST MATCH SPECIAL
Peter (ed.) Baxter
Manufacturer: London, Queen Anne Press, (1981). Cloth, fine in d/w, illust., pp. 159. ISBN 0362 00547 8.
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ASIN: B000LRKMVY |
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Test Match Special
Peter Baxter , and
Peter Baxter 1947
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
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Test Match Special 2
Peter Baxter
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Test match special 2
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Test match special 3
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In 1957, a whole day's play of a Test Match was broadcast on BBC Radio for the first time with the slogan 'Don't miss a ball, we broadcast them all'. This book celebrates 50 years of Test Match Special with anecdotes, stories, reminiscences and champagne moments of five decades of cricket commentary. Sprinkled throughout are "My First TMS match" articles by top-class writers and commentators such as Jonathan Agnew, Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Henry Blofeld, Bill Frindall, Simon Mann, Vic Marks, Mike Selvey and Angus Fraser. Edited by Peter Baxter, the organizing brain behind TMS and the producer for 29 years, this is a comprehensive and celebratory account of this most respected and prestigious brand in cricket.
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