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How to Get Hung: A Practical Guide for Emerging Artists
enlarge	Authors: Molly Barnes, Pat Hilton Publisher: Journey Editions Category: Book List Price: ~~$18.95~~ Buy Used: $0.01 as of 7/30/2010 02:02 CDT details You Save: $18.94 (100%) Qty 1 In Stock New (11) Used (62) Collectible (4) from $0.01 Seller: clearancebooksale Rating: 6 reviews Sales Rank: 1061562 Media: Paperback Edition: 1st Pages: 160 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4 Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.5 ISBN: 188520308X Dewey Decimal Number: 706.88 EAN: 9781885203083 ASIN: 188520308X Publication Date: November 15, 1994 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Product Description In this accessible, easy-to-read, detailed guide for artists, students, and aspiring art professionals, Molly Barnes takes the mystique out of "how to hung". Readers learn how to present their work and themselves to the professional art world.

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 6 1 2 Next » All Artists who want their work in a gallery, get this book! August 2, 2007 Lisa Jackson (Washington Terrace, Utah, USA) 0 out of 3 found this review helpful 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! The best book for understanding the soul of the art world August 1, 1999 5 out of 14 found this review helpful 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. To get hung? September 22, 2006 Winston hough (Glenview, Il. United States) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful 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 There are far better books than this one on the market. November 25, 1998 28 out of 28 found this review helpful Barnes reduces the complexities of developing a career as a fine artist to short, opinionated paragraphs under multiple headings. It sounds condescending and dictorial. Some of the bad advice she gives includes suggesting you move to New York; courting gallery owners like her with flowers, limos, lunch, or buying art from her shows. If you are looking for a quick overview of the artist-gallery relationship from this particular dealer's perspective, you'll find that information here, but I suggest you try a worthy publication like Cay Lang's Taking The Leap or Carol Michels' How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist. You could have hung... yourself. July 15, 2001 The Artist (USA) 14 out of 14 found this review helpful 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. Showing reviews 1-5 of 6 1 2 Next »

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