Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+3434 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1741994 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1623519 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1453401 How to use your artistic skills to make money--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1454646 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1431403 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1477716 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1304573 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1133143 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1129346 Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBIs Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career, offering a real-life international thriller. The son of an antique dealer, Wittman built a twenty-year career going undercover, usually unarmed, to catch art thieves, scammers, and black market traders in Paris and Philadelphia, Rio and Santa Fe, Miami and Madrid. Wittman tells the stories behind his recoveries of priceless art and antiquities: the golden armor of an ancient Peruvian warrior king; the Rodin sculpture that inspired the Impressionist movement; the rare Civil War battle flag carried into battle by one of the nations first African-American regiments. The art thieves and scammers he caught run the gamut from rich to poor, smart to foolish, organized criminals to desperate loners. Wittman has saved hundreds of millions of dollars worth of art and antiquities, but he considers them all equally priceless.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1059934 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=816411 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=695680 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=745624 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=745623 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=747367 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=735666 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=747359 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=687265 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=632053 It was the golden age of eBay. Optimistic bidders went online to the worlds largest flea market, ready to spend cash on everything from garden gnomes to Mercedes convertibles. Among them were art collectors willing to spend big money on unseen paintings, hoping to buy valuable pieces of art at below-market prices. EBay also attracted the occasional con artist unable to resist the temptation of abusing a system that prided itself on being based on trust. Walton--once a lawyer bound by the ethics of his profession--was seduced by just such a con artist and, eventually, became one himself. What started out as a satisfying exercise in reselling thrift store paintings in order to pay back student loans and mounting credit card debt soon became an addiction to the subtle deception of luring unsuspecting bidders into overpaying for paintings of questionable origins.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=647835 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=652908 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=619890 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=626338 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=583908 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=566690 Not everyone has an eye for color. It takes a certain kind of artistic intuition to create a comfortable environment. It takes a precise attention to detail in order to repair a work of art. If you have an artistic eye but arent sure how to translate your talents into a successful and rewarding career, this book offers you many exciting ideas and options. Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=610097 This much-needed guide provides the skills and tools to manage projects from start to finish. Business and Legal Forms for Fine Artists consists of twenty-two crucial business and legal forms and includes a CD-ROM* with the forms in word processing formats for both the PC and Mac platforms: Contract for the Sale of an Artwork, Contract for the Sale of an Artwork with Moral Rights and Resale Royalty Rights, Invoice for the Sale of an Artwork, Contract to Commission an Artwork, Contract to Create a Limited Edition, Contract for Receipt and Holding of Artwork, Artist-Gallery Contract with Record of Consignment and Statement of Account, Contract to Create a Video for Transmission, DVD Sales, or DVD Rentals, Contract for the Rental of an Artwork, Contract for an Exhibition Loan, Artists Lecture Contract, Licensing Contract to Merchandise Images, Release Form for Models, Property Release, Copyright Registration of an Artwork, Permission Form, License of Electronic Rights, Contract with an Independent Contractor, Commercial Lease, Sublease, Lease Assignment. Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=522879 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=549512 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=644814 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=533982 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=281271 The world of art offers countiess career options--from the highly technical to the highly creative--in all types of working environments. Creating a successful career in art can be challenging, but this indispensable guide gives you the expert advice you need to get ahead in this exciting field. The arts offer a vast array of rewarding career opportunities for motivated people with a flair for creativity and an ability to ride the ups and downs of a sometimes unpredictable field. Careers in Art explores professions ranging from graphic design to the fine arts--careers requiring a range of education and offering a wide variety of workplace settings. Youll benefit from sections on qualifications, education and training, popular career paths, and sources for further information on this diverse and growing field. Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=299190 Covering diverse professions from accounting to zookeeping, this is the worlds most comprehensive career book series. Always growing and reflecting the times, the series encompasses traditional careers as well as those in newer areas such as laser technology, robotics, and holistic health care. Each book offers essential information for job seekers on getting started, obtaining training, education, advancement, salaries, job responsibilities -- and more. Canadian information is included wherever appropriate. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=265519 Updated legal information and vital data on new media and electronic rights. The narrative text covers copyright law, censorship, moral rights, sales, taxation, estate planning, museums, and grants. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=284305 Picture your painting on the front of a greeting card, ready to brighten someones day. You can make it happen! This book shows you not only how to create beautiful cards, but how to sell them, too. To help you get started, Jeanette Robertson and a dozen other successful greeting card artists share what theyve learned. Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=131906 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=277438 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=279373 The purpose of this book is twofold: to help you develop a solid understanding of all aspects of marketing graphic design services, and to equip you with the necessary tools you can immediately put to work in your own business. Written by Linda Cooper Bowen, a former graphic designer and successful design marketing consultant with nearly two decades in the business, The Graphic Designers Guide to Creative Marketing is based on her own experiences as well as those of many outstanding design professionals and their clients who share candid comments, tips, and insights. No matter what your level of experience - student or working professional, in-house, freelance, or small studio - The Graphic Designers Guide to Creative Marketing is a valuable professional resource you wont want to be without.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=156851 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=69427 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=281798 This group of essays focuses on three main issues: the demand for art, including the range of art objects purchased by various social groups; the conditions of artistic creativity and communication between different producing centres and artistic milieux; and the emergence of art markets which served to link the first two phenomena. The work draws on new research by art historians and economic and social historians from Europe and the United States, and covers the period from the late Middle Ages to the early nineteenth century.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=266159 Advice on successful presentation packages, the different avenues of achieving recognition, and considerations such as planning and tracking results, with a special chapter on competing for grants, the activity that can generate important recognition and credibility. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=147301 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=30133 Marketing and business information to succeed in this tough market. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=228285 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=299682 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=180351 With his trademark humor and irreverence, Thomas Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and bestselling author of Making the Mummies Dance, delves into an important aspect of modern culture - art forgery - to reveal the appalling scams, the duplicitous perpetrators, and the hapless dupes, from the beginning of civilization to the present. This is a big, broad book on art fakes, fakers, and suckers written in Hovings signature style - amusing, wicked, and mischievous. From the shroud of Turin to Pre-Columbian pottery, Hoving covers the biggest, the best, the most embarrassing, and the most costly forgeries - most never before published, some he himself collected. He explains the differences between out-right forgeries and works so overly restored and tarted up the result is tantamount to forgery. Hoving exposes the scams and tells why people, including knowledgeable collectors, continue to fall for them. He characterizes the fakers, their middlemen, and the marks, the greedy, gullible, and moneyed private collectors and institutions who got taken in by some of the most amusing and imaginative con games of all time. He examines the motives of the fakers and the dupes (its not always money), and introduces us to the talented fakebusters whose job it is to expose the truth. And he answers the question, If a fake fools everybody, why isnt it as good as the genuine article?--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=148265 They probably didnt tell you in art school, but it takes a great deal more than talent to succeed in a career in illustration. Illustration is a business, and like any other business, professionals must learn to skillfully navigate their way through the marketplace in order to survive and thrive. The Business of Illustration provides information not available elsewhere, guiding the wannabe or even more experienced illustrator through the process of setting up a business, creating effective methods of self-promotion, finding a rep - or perhaps even choosing to operate without one. Best of all, no three-piece suits are required. Full of tricks of the trade too often learned only after getting burned, The Business of Illustration presents a broad picture of what it takes to protect your intellectual property while also making your talent and passion into a viable business. Interviews with successful illustrators, such as Brad Holland, Anita Kunz and Henrik Drescher, and well-established artist representatives, like Vicki Morgan and Richard Solomon, put the reader on the inside track. Examples of work from the many different genres of illustration show diverse, yet equally successful approaches to editorial work, corporate advertising, book publishing, cds and records, medical, packaging, comics and still more. Appropriate fees for work in various areas of the business are also listed at the end of the book.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=80622 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=264355 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=316333 Filled with successful strategies for serving clients in todays flourishing art market, this definitive guide provides techniques for increasing sales opportunities and revenues in an ever-expanding field. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=42000 This remarkable book begins with all the dramatic immediacy of a blockbuster novel. Peter Watson takes us behind the scenes at the Christies auction where van Goghs Portrait of Dr. Gachet was sold for a world record price of $82.5 million. It was the first time such access had ever been granted a writer. The author then turns back the clock to trace the rise of the art market from three key events that took place in Paris, New York and London in 1882, through three critical areas - painting, books and Far Eastern art - right up to the present day. Marcel Duchamp considered dealers lice on the backs of artists. William Blake believed that where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on. Renoir took a more practical view: Get this into your head, he told a friend. Theres only one indication for telling the value of paintings, and that is the sale-room. It may not be the oldest profession, but art dealing has been a vocation since the days of ancient Rome, and it is this crucial link between art and commerce that makes Mr. Watsons history such absorbing one. He has produced a book that is rich in both scholarship and anecdote, one that traces not only the development of the great auction houses, like Sothebys and Christies, and the recent and spectacular involvement of Japanese buyers, but also the development of that fascinating breed the dealers: flamboyant salesmen, fastidious scholars and some downright crooks. Generously illustrated with photographs, caricatures and pictures of famous paintings, this captivating and provocative history brilliantly brings to life the connoisseurs and market makers of the art world who have shaped our tastes and influenced our ideas about what constitutes great art.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=87790 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=162150 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=102002 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=193745 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=160847 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=240329 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=172313 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=107551