How to Enter the Art World...
AFTER a late start / a first career / raising children / caring for parents / recovering from illness / a crisis of confidence / leaving it in disgust.
Published on 23. April 2026
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-1-917719-15-5 (ISBN)
Description
A guide for anyone whose trajectory through the art world isn’t a smooth upward curve, based on years of research with art professionals.
The commercial art world is powered by a convenient fiction: that artists’ careers proceed along an established route, onwards and upwards, with always the same goal in sight. It is also notoriously hard to re-enter after time away. Based on years spent talking with artists and arts professionals, How to Enter the Art World… is a compendium of guidelines, pointers and tips to help readers chart their own route as an artist. Frank, funny and occasionally forthright, this book illuminates the many different ways to be an artist, regardless of life’s obstacles and interruptions.
The commercial art world is powered by a convenient fiction: that artists’ careers proceed along an established route, onwards and upwards, with always the same goal in sight. It is also notoriously hard to re-enter after time away. Based on years spent talking with artists and arts professionals, How to Enter the Art World… is a compendium of guidelines, pointers and tips to help readers chart their own route as an artist. Frank, funny and occasionally forthright, this book illuminates the many different ways to be an artist, regardless of life’s obstacles and interruptions.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 189 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
310 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-917719-15-5 (9781917719155)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Hettie Judah is a writer, and curator of the acclaimed exhibition Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood. The author of numerous books on art, she is well known as a critic, columnist, broadcaster and advocate for artists’ rights.
Content
Part 1: Reality Check
Part 2: Making Art
Part 3: The Expanded Art School
Part 4: Plugging In
Part 5: Putting Out
Part 6: Showing
Part 7: Selling
Part 8: Other Models
Part 9: Misfits among misfits
Part 10: The Horror Show
Part 2: Making Art
Part 3: The Expanded Art School
Part 4: Plugging In
Part 5: Putting Out
Part 6: Showing
Part 7: Selling
Part 8: Other Models
Part 9: Misfits among misfits
Part 10: The Horror Show