If he can make a life in art, you can, too. Leaning on the story, Saltz usually positions himself as a populist.
He has cultivated a relatable backstory that he repeats often: a stalled art career, a stint as a truck driver, writing his first piece for The Village Voice when he was in his forties. Saltz was a painter before he became a critic. In the introduction, Saltz describes his goal as leading the reader “from wondering and worrying to making real art, even great art.” Then he adjusts expectations: The book can “at least help you live life a little more creatively.”Īrt here suggests self-discovery and self- expression without risk creativity means things you can Instagram. ( Eat, Pray, Love might be the ancestor of the species.) Like others in its cohort, Saltz’s book is visually appealing, with plentiful color reproductions of artwork and portraits of artists. The pithy guide format is having a bestselling renaissance, including Marie Kondo’s cleaning manuals Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and its various follow-ups and the productivity porn of volumes collecting the morning routines of various artists and thinkers, as if we could write In Search of Lost Time by breakfasting like Proust.
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A 144-page volume that deserves the cliché appellation of slim, How to Be an Artist exists at the intersection of a tiny corpus of art-criticism books and the booming genre of self-help-meets-lifestyle-inspiration.
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