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To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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"They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions," said Atticus, "but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction by Julian Stallabrass
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Flaubert more than implies that the free mastery of the artist (and reader or viewer) is a cruel power. In Bourdieu's analysis, Flaubert's freedom, and that of the avant-garde in general, was purchased at the price of actual disconnection from the world of the economy. Other bohemian writers were the main and grossly inadequate market for such work, and books were written in deliberate defiance of bourgeois understanding. The autonomy of art was carved out of a reaction against both elevated bourgeois writing and engaged, realist literature; acclaim was only—if ever—achieved after the long passage of time, as new avant-garde forms displaced and familiarized the old. It is easy to see that the conditions for that freedom no longer exist in the art world. The plausibility and power of art's freedom are on the wane. Among the opening remarks of Aesthetic Theory, Adorno has this to say about artistic freedom: 'absolute freedom in art, always limited to a particular, comes into contradiction with the perennial unfreedom of the whole'. Until that wider unfreedom is confronted, the particular freedoms of art run through the fingers like sand. To break with the autonomy of free art is to remove one of the masks of free trade. Or to put it the other way around, if capitalist free trade is to be abandoned as a model for global development, so must its ally, free art.
A Beautiful Anarchy: When the Life Creative Becomes the Life Created by David duChemin
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This book is an invitation to celebrate the life creative, and in so doing to embrace its essential and beautiful anarchy. I use the word "anarchy" metaphorically rather than politically, as a call to live our lives on our own terms, which is the only way we can fully be ourselves. It's a call to live our lives free from the bondage of should and ought to: the only way to be truly alive. We need more of these kinds of anarchists, more people who understand the extraordinary beauty and brevity of life, and who daily find the courage to follow that voice that calls them to something more, even when they don't know what that something more is. Even when that voice calls them to places beyond the points that other voices say they should turn back.
Artpreneur: The Step-by-Step Guide to Making a Sustainable Living from Your Creativity by Miriam Schulman, Miriam Schulman
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But art only helps people when they know about it. And that's why I've written this book for you. When you work on your production plan, you'll create art in your own authentic voice. When you market your art, you get feedback on what kind of art resonates with your audience. When you price your art appropriately, you'll teach the world that your art is valuable, and the world will stand up and take notice. When you prospect to build an audience, you connect with those who need your art. Promote your art to reach more people with your message—not only to sell it, but because your art matters.