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THE DEATH OF THE ARTIST
How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech
THE DEATH OF THE ARTIST: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech is a lively and rigorous investigation into what it means to lead a creative life todayfrom the new opportunities to the great personal costs provided by technology.
Over the last twenty years, art has become more accessible than ever before. A painter can post their latest creation on Instagram; a budding filmmaker can shoot a clip on their iPhone and upload it to various sites for thousands to view. The digital landscape has fundamentally altered what it means to be creative artists, as well as how consumers interact with artistic production both economically and curatorially. In THE DEATH OF THE ARTIST, New York Times bestselling author William Deresiewicz zeroes in on how this economic reshuffling impacts written, musical, and visual art, as well as the lives of the people who make it, presenting a vital gaze on a necessary economy.
THE DEATH OF THE ARTIST is the first of its kind to dive into the subject, shining a light on the predicament most artists face today, and speaking urgently to a robust audience of creatives and educators, most of whom are in a vocation-life bind, looking for solutions. Deresiewicz shows what the birth of the creative entrepreneur signifies about our evolving society at large and what might be done to keep artists thriving, because we need them.
William Deresiewicz is a highly regarded thinker as well as an award-winning essayist and critic, frequent college speaker, and former professor at Yale University. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Harper's, The Nation, The New Republic, The American Scholar, and more. He is the recipient of a National Book Critics Circle award for excellence in reviewing and the New York Times bestselling author of Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life and A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter.
THE DEATH OF THE ARTIST is the first of its kind to dive into the subject, shining a light on the predicament most artists face today, and speaking urgently to a robust audience of creatives and educators, most of whom are in a vocation-life bind, looking for solutions. Deresiewicz shows what the birth of the creative entrepreneur signifies about our evolving society at large and what might be done to keep artists thriving, because we need them.
William Deresiewicz is a highly regarded thinker as well as an award-winning essayist and critic, frequent college speaker, and former professor at Yale University. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Harper's, The Nation, The New Republic, The American Scholar, and more. He is the recipient of a National Book Critics Circle award for excellence in reviewing and the New York Times bestselling author of Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life and A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter.
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Published 2020-07-01 by Henry Holt |