{"product_id":"9781800751149","title":"Making Art and Making a Living","description":"\u003cp\u003eMany of us are drawn to a life in the arts but daunted by how to balance that ambition with the very real need to pay rent and put food on the table. It is impossible to become an accomplished painter, composer, or novelist without spending time experimenting, making false starts, absorbing criticism, reading, talking, and moping about the house. All this time must be purchased, one way or another. Is the history of art and ideas just a history of rich kids?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe answer, of course, is no. William Carlos Williams was a family doctor. Franz Kafka was an insurance man, as were Charles Ives and Wallace Stevens. Grace Hartigan temped. James Joyce mooched off his brother; Christopher Isherwood ingratiated himself with a wealthy uncle. Virginia Woolf and Louisa May Alcott were determined to make their writing pay no matter what. And their material circumstances had an impact on all of their creative outputs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom family money to jobs to colorful schemes, Mason Currey, author of the acclaimed \u003cem\u003eDaily Rituals\u003c\/em\u003e, explores both the well-worn and unlikely paths forward for the up-and-coming artist\u003cem\u003e. Making Art and Making a Living\u003c\/em\u003e 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 the eternal dilemma of an artistic life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Swift Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57017344983413,"sku":"9781800751149","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9781800751149.jpg?v=1775051507","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.com\/products\/9781800751149","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}