How To Become A Successful Artist

If you are an artist with no business education: Buy this book! All the information you need to run your studio you can find in this book. I have bought various other books on the topic - often they are personal accounts of unknown artists. What makes this book unique is that Magnus is not an artist. He is a Professor at Yale for Art Management. His arguments are based on data. And on the advice of experts, such as Hans Ulrich Obrist, Marilyn Minter and many others. There is no other book that follows this approach. If you want to learn from the best, buy this book.

This is the only book artist need to read to become successful, super informative call, all you need to know is there. It covers all topic, no BS. Much appreciation for the author. This book reveals all the secrets, helps you to develop your own strategy, gives you a list of all the influential people in art. Step-by-step it helps you to get a global picture of what’s going on in the art world. The most inspiring book Just because of the incredibly useful information that’s in there.

Wonderful find! I really enjoyed this book. It is rich in content and has a great design. If you are just starting out in the art world, buy this book. It gives you all the key information you need to successfully run your business as an artist. It is a good companion to "Management of Art Galleries," which I read last year and also enjoyed. Both books provide artists with comprehensive yet easy to understand overviews of the “ins and outs” of the art market.

Brilliant bookMagnus Resch summarizes what it takes to be an artist. This is an excellent guide for artists, who are also entrepreneurs.

I just bought “How To Become A Successful Artist last week. It is not the first book I have related to art business advice, but I am literally in shock. I’m devouring it, eating and tasting every chapter and highlighting paragraphs with my yellow Staedtler Texsurfer classic.The author, Magnus Resch dedicated the book to his father. I think he was proud of him. I also have “100 Secrets of the Art World”. A guy with a Ph.D. in Economics and a real love for arts is a win-win math formula.To my fellow artists I just could shout: Buy this book and read it two or three times and start making your network right now!

What a joke of a book for this price! Reads like a junior introduction to LinkedIn for budding artists. Avoid

Just finished reading this super insightful book, I am glad that I picked up a copy and can highly recommend it.

Exactly what I was looking for: hard to find art world data.

The media could not be loaded.  5 star content with 2 star paperback production.Magnus Resch seems to be involved with a publishing company (Phaidon) which hasn't got a clue about how to produce books. With his first book about art galleries, you couldn't read the quotes because they were in pale pink! Within a week of receiving this book and starting to read it, it started to self-destruct - before I had finished reading Chapter 5 of this 10 chapter book! See Video.Apart from the low quality production values I recommend this book as being very informative and useful for a lot of aspiring artists.However, in my opinion if this becomes a well thumbed reference book it will completely fall apart! It needs to be a hardback - or made in a way which will prevent it falling apart.

I was one of the happy few to get a link to the free preview of How To Become a Successful Artist by Magnus Resch but I ended up buying a hard copy anyway because the format of the preview did not allow me to add annotations or highlight relevant points. The book is indeed packed with ‘too much’ useful information.According to Magnus Resch, networking and understanding ‘Who is Who’ in the Art world is an essential ingredient for success and I must say that he has managed to offer the reader a starting point for doing just that through lots of ‘name dropping’. All the reader needs to do next is go online and find the names of the artists, galleries and art collectors that the author mentions and then potentially follow them on social media and reach out.How To Become A Successful Artist is the result of years of thorough academic research and extensive data analysis but, instead of writing an academic thesis devoid of any practical use for the individual artist, Magnus has put together a very practical guide.Some of the author’s findings in the book are counter-intuitive. For me, for example, one of the most surprising revelations was that artists get ‘pigeon-holed’ fairly quickly in the Art market and that there is not much mobility once this has happened. Hence the need for a well planned start. Artists, says Magnus, need to take steps that are similar to those taken by any entrepreneur and How to Become a Successful Artist was indeed written with that in mind, complete with illustrative case studies and sections to be used as a workbook.Get Magnus’ data-driven guide together with Jerry Saltz’s experience-based book ‘How to be an Artist’ and you’ll be all set.There are many artists on social media who try to attract collectors and followers with their own tips on how to become successful but, statistically, for the large majority of them, it simply can not be true that they are able to live off their art. I would therefore recommend listening to Magnus Resch instead. He has the facts.

I was lucky to receive a pre-view of ‘How to become a successful artist’, but knowing that this was going to be essential reading I purchased a hard copy also. I have been following Magnus for a while now, and find his knowledge within the art world extremely informative and geared to be tailored for the part-time novice to the fine art Goldsmiths grad. The book is no exception, full of very useful concrete advice, which you think being in brand myself would be obvious. Fascinating case studies from some of the coolest artists out there. I’m learning so much from this exemplary book, and in the past been far too shy to promote my artwork, I’m sure this book will give me the courage to make that change.

Very thankful that someone took time to write about this. Easy read, entertaining, interesting and useful.

This book should be called “How to Become a Successful Artist if you are a Young Male Under 30 And Live in New York City »Although the book is filled with lots of sobering and well researched data about the art world, and the infinitesimal number of artists who actually achieve success , it is not very helpful to have that data since most artists are aware of the low odds the author refers to with many researched facts. Most artists pursue art anyway because they love the process and can’t not create art. For those artists there are many more useful, inspiring and pragmatic books such as "The Art Rules by Paul Klein" and "Art Work" by Heather Dharcy Bandhari. These books and many others can serve as an antidote to this Resch's book and offer many more examples of artists of diverse ages, genders and geography creating art and finding success at different levels of the art world