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Barcode30053003836171
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call No338.447 CURR
Title Making art and making a living : adventures in funding a creative life / Mason Currey.
Author Currey, Mason, author.
CollectionNEW: Adult 300-399
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StatusHome LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc Status
 Paris-Bourbon30053003836171338.447 CURR4/14/2026 Available

Catalog Details

Personal Name Currey, Mason, author.
Title Statement Making art and making a living : adventures in funding a creative life / Mason Currey.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Celadon Books, 2026.
Physical Description viii, 227 pages ; 25 cm.
Content Type text txt rdacontent.
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia.
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note Introduction -- Family money : Inheritance ; Allowance ; The art of mooching -- Jobs : Odd jobs ; Double lives ; Culture workers -- Patrons : Elite status ; Government checks ; True fans -- Schemes : Art and theft ; Sort of rich, sort of quick ; The bridge ; Double or nothing.
Summary, Etc. "From family money to jobs to colorful schemes, Mason Currey, author of the acclaimed Daily Rituals, explores both the well-worn and unlikely paths forward for the up-and-coming artist. Making Art and Making a Living is an entertaining and thought-provoking examination of the collision of creative ambitions with real-world necessities, and of the messy, glorious, torturous compromises that gifted individuals have patched together when facing this eternal dilemma of an artistic life"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Art Economic aspects.
Index Term-Genre/Form Biographies. lcgft.
Index Term-Genre/Form Informational works. lcgft.

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