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The Death of the Artist audiobook
- By: William Deresiewicz
- Narrator: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Category: Art, Business Aspects
- Length: 13 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: July 28, 2020
- Language: English
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The Death of the Artist Audiobook Summary
A deeply researched warning about how the digital economy threatens artists’ lives and work–the music, writing, and visual art that sustain our souls and societies–from an award-winning essayist and critic
There are two stories you hear about earning a living as an artist in the digital age. One comes from Silicon Valley. There’s never been a better time to be an artist, it goes. If you’ve got a laptop, you’ve got a recording studio. If you’ve got an iPhone, you’ve got a movie camera. And if production is cheap, distribution is free: it’s called the Internet. Everyone’s an artist; just tap your creativity and put your stuff out there.
The other comes from artists themselves. Sure, it goes, you can put your stuff out there, but who’s going to pay you for it? Everyone is not an artist. Making art takes years of dedication, and that requires a means of support. If things don’t change, a lot of art will cease to be sustainable.
So which account is true? Since people are still making a living as artists today, how are they managing to do it? William Deresiewicz, a leading critic of the arts and of contemporary culture, set out to answer those questions. Based on interviews with artists of all kinds, The Death of the Artist argues that we are in the midst of an epochal transformation. If artists were artisans in the Renaissance, bohemians in the nineteenth century, and professionals in the twentieth, a new paradigm is emerging in the digital age, one that is changing our fundamental ideas about the nature of art and the role of the artist in society.
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The Death of the Artist Audiobook Narrator
Sean Patrick Hopkins is the narrator of The Death of the Artist audiobook that was written by William Deresiewicz
William Deresiewicz is an award-winning essayist and critic, frequent speaker at colleges and other venues, and former professor of English at Yale. His writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Harper’s, the New York Times, the American Scholar, and many other publications. He is the recipient of a National Book Critics Circle award for excellence in reviewing and is the New York Times bestselling author of Excellent Sheep, The Death of the Artist, and A Jane Austen Education.
About the Author(s) of The Death of the Artist
William Deresiewicz is the author of The Death of the Artist
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The Death of the Artist Full Details
| Narrator | Sean Patrick Hopkins |
| Length | 13 hours 55 minutes |
| Author | William Deresiewicz |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | July 28, 2020 |
| ISBN | 9781250755452 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Death of the Artist is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Art, Business Aspects
Additional info
The publisher of the The Death of the Artist is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781250755452.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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