(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best business of art reference books

How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist is a great book, you could get it from the library, but it's cheap and handy to have around.

Thanks a lot my man. I found a book, but you've probably read it.

http://www.amazon.com/Priceless-Undercover-Rescue-Worlds-Treasures/dp/0307461475

She needs to read this book first:

How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist: Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul

If you're looking for LE specific, Priceless is great. It's the autobiography of the FBI Art Crime Team's founder and takes you through the real world of art crime, which is actually more interesting than the Thomas Crown idea of it.

I think you'd like reading Billion Dollar Painter by G. Eric Kluskey. Facinating to read about Kinkade's self destruction, and how all the evangelical fans got financially fleeced opening their own Kinkade galleries.

This is worth the read ... business can be daunting to people who would rather be doing everything but business. Suck it up and learn, it will be worth it. Once you break through the barriers and start having people represent you, you can stop thinking about it so much, again.

I appreciate and respect shark hood, but no I don't agree with her, and she also did not phrase her explanation as the be all and end all on this topic; she left open a space for discourse and questioning while still informing me.

One of the most respected art critics in the world who comes from a marxian perspective, Isabelle Graw, wrote a book on this topic, "High Price", that conflicts with what you three are telling me. (not withstanding that user 629 what evs and sharkhood conflict with each other)

I read that book recently and it presented a different formulation than what you are espousing.

http://www.amazon.com/Isabelle-Graw-High-Price-Celebrity/dp/1933128798

i can buy that the right people knew and others went along with it out of ignorance or fear of reprisal. The Getty has a long history of fraud, theft, and other deceptive activities - this book is a good read about some of it, if you're into that sort of thing!