"How history's greatest artists failed, floundered and made something brilliant anyway." The notion that famous artists were destined for greatness, somehow chosen or fated, and they they lead charmed lives is put under the microscope in this book. What the author explores is a less dramatic and more realistic truth: often artists are famous because …
Subtitled "Adventures In Funding A Creative Life", this book is a history of the ways in which artists and creative people have made ends meet and kept body and soul together while following their calling to make art. Whilst establishing yourself as an artist, being able to have the money to live so that you …
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Translated from French by Hildegard Serle. Mona is ten when she first goes blind for one hour. As doctors try to find out the cause of her malady, her beloved grandfather is tasked with taking her to therapy appointments. Instead, fearing that she may lose her sight, he takes her to see one famous artwork …
