Our Ultimate Guide to Artist Books & "Is My Work Any Good?" [38]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this special episode we discuss some of the books that have inspired us over the years. Our choices may seem surprising but we hope they are all enlightening. They include a collection of letters from one poet to another, a book on marketing (with a twist), two very different artist-written books, and two diverse guides to living an easier and more joyful life. We could not fit all our recommended books into one podcast, so we've created a special download for you with a total of 14 amazing reads. (see below for links). Even if you think some of these books are not for you, it might be worth trusting us and trying them anyway - each one contains amazing wisdom to enrich our lives and our art-making.
We also answer a listener question about how to judge our work. Is there any such thing as a perfect painting? And how do we know if what we are making is good? In fact, who decides what is good?
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Download your "Ultimate (unusual) Book Recommendations for Artists" HERE.
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Credits
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Is there a definition of a perfect painting? |
| 0:04.0 | No. |
| 0:05.0 | Next. Hello everybody and we are back with episode 38 of Art Juice and this is going to be a slightly different episode. We've got all our usual |
| 0:24.8 | gubbins but we're also going to share some of our favorite books with you. Now some of these might be artist |
| 0:31.3 | books or business direction books or really just general life philosophy |
| 0:36.5 | books but we just thought that that would be a nice thing to discuss always when we get into conversations about books. I love hearing other people's book |
| 0:45.2 | recommendation. So we're going to talk about some here on the podcast today and we've also got |
| 0:51.2 | a little gift for you. We've made a really nice PDF which includes some of these |
| 0:57.1 | and other ones that we think we're not going to have time to talk about today. So if you're out |
| 1:02.2 | and about listening and you're wondering |
| 1:04.5 | you've got to scribble down notes or write titles, you don't have to. You can go to the show notes or you can |
| 1:10.5 | come and find the page on each of our website so that's Louise Fletcherart.com or my website |
| 1:17.6 | Alice Sheridan.com and there will be a PDF which you can download no required, we're just going to give it to you so that you |
| 1:25.8 | don't have to scribble and write notes. How's that? |
| 1:28.7 | That sounds reasonable. |
| 1:30.5 | Jolly good. |
| 1:31.5 | Bookworm library moment. |
| 1:34.0 | How has your week been? |
| 1:36.0 | What have you been working on, Louise? |
| 1:38.0 | It's been a bit mad. |
| 1:40.0 | You know, when you go away for a few days, your workshop last week seems like three days away makes |
| 1:46.3 | three weeks worth of extra work when you come back so I just seem to be scrambling from one thing to |
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