Art & Reality guides you step-by-step through the process of developing and executing a fast track career plan. The best way to use this book is to start with Chapter 1, Analysis - Artist evaluation survey. The evaluation will give you the opportunity to get your bearings and determine your current position. Armed with this knowledge you can progress quickly through the book and start advancing your career. An appendix of suggested readings on each of the various topics discussed in this book has been provided for your reference. Many of these resources are available at your local

This book covers practical matters essential to the sucessful visual artist: obtaining gallery representation, working with dealers and selling by mail. Includes profiles of well known artists with their tips on developing skills, contacts and effective studio practices.

Guide to practical resources available to writers, including career assistance, grants, awards, residence programs, working space, insurance, and agents. Listings are arranged by state and discipline.

Prepared by an attorney, this guide intended for business situations, but useful on wider copyright issues. Covers what can and cannot be protected, duration, and scope of protection, notice and registration, how to avoid and evauate enfringement, and how copyrights are used and exploited in the marketplace.

This book was written to empower the artist. I wanted to create a user-friendly handbook, one that would take artists through the skills of business and marketing, step-by-step. We all know that it's hard for artists to acquire business knowledge so I wanted to make it fun and as easy as I could.

Imagine watching the Seven Dwarfs travel to work while singing Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho, it's off to work we go on videocasette without the benefit of sound. Despite the Walt Disney Company's historic and frequent use of the composition, Disney and its publishing company disagree over whether Disney has the right to synchronize it and other compositions with videocasettes or in any manner other than with motion pictures presented in movie theatres. Pursuant to a series of agreements in the 1930s, the copyrights to a large number of Disney's early compositions are owned by Bourne Music Publishing,

On 1 December, 1990, the Architectural Works Copyright Protection Act (AWCPA) became law. The , for the first time, provided copyright protection for architectural structures. This new law established certain property rights in architectural designs, enabling architects to better control exploitation of their works. Generally, the AWCPA provides architects with the exclusive right to reproduce or alter their copyrighted works. Furthermore, the AWCPA brings the closer to full compliance with its obligations stemming from the international copyright treaty known as the Berne Convention.

[The authors] found that writing occupations have grown rapidly the last two decades, but that writers still constitute a very small faction of the nation's labor force - in 1990 American authors numbered about 107,000 or just nine in 10,000 members of the labor force. Earnings: In 1989, authors' total earnings averaged $23,335, less than other professional workers, editors and reporters and technical writers, but more than other artists.

Joan Jeffri and Robert Rosenblatt wrote the section of this report which examines trends in the visual arts occupations of painters, sculptors, craft artists and artist printmakers. Major areas they examined, using Census data and artist population surveys, are geographic distribution, age, education, employment and earnings. Highlights of their findings appear here.

Listing of public, college, university, museum, and other types of libraries with a brief description of their art-related collections. Listing of bookstores specializing in both in-print and out-of-print art-related books, magazines, catalogs and other publications.