How to Be an Artist: A Creative Survival Guide for Everyone Author: Jerry Saltz Translator: Yingerdao Shanghai People's Publishing House

“Never be afraid. Art is just a vessel into which you pour yourself. Get to work!” – Jerry Saltz

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☆ Pulitzer Prize winner and veteran art critic Jerry Saltz writes a creative survival guide for everyone

☆63 art guides, 12 practical exercises, all the problems faced by professional/amateur would-be artists/artists are solved in one book!

☆ Sincerely recommended by domestic and foreign artists such as Philip Tinari, Zeng Yan, Zhang Yuling, Long Di, You Xiao, Zhu Yujie, Cici Xiang Minjing, Cindy Sherman, Tracey Emin, Kim Gordon, etc.

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I have never been to an art school, I am married with children, and I have severe social anxiety... Can I still be an artist?

What should I do if I have no idea where to start? What should I do if I get stuck in a bottleneck period?

How do you know if your work is right? What should you do when you have self-doubt? What should you do when you procrastinate?

From things you need to think about before creating, how to actually start creating, to learning how to think like an artist, to stepping into the art world and surviving in it, the 63 suggestions and 12 exercises from Pulitzer Prize winner for Art Criticism Jerry Saltz will help you break through fear and confusion and take you step by step onto a path of continuous advancement.

Jerry Saltz was born in Chicago in 1951. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (but later dropped out), opened a gallery, and held art exhibitions. He started his art criticism career in his forties and is now the most popular and influential cultural writer, "sharp to the point of being frightening". Saltz has completely gotten rid of the elitist tendencies of art critics, actively interacted with artists and the public, and dispelled the mystery of art and art criticism, so he was hailed as the "people's art critic". He served as a senior art critic for The Village Voice and New York, and won the Mather Art Criticism Award from the American Academy of Arts in 2007 and the Pulitzer Prize for Art Criticism in 2018.