Why I Don't Make Art For a Living: How Capitalism Kills Creativity - Nadya Primak
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Why I Don't Make Art For a Living: How Capitalism Kills Creativity - Nadya Primak
Illustrator Karlotta Freier recalls being mocked by her art school classmates for asking about how to make a living as an illustrator. “No one would make fun of a plumbing student for asking about the business side of things,” she says, “so why don’t I get to ask?” For decades, the promise of a creative career was the alleviation of the worst parts
... See moreArtists have it the worst. If you answer, “I’m a writer,” for example, there’s a very good chance that the next question will be, “Oh, have you published anything?” which is actually a veiled way of asking, “Do you make any money off that?”
Contemporary capitalism has commandeered creativity to ensure its own growth and maintain the centralization and monetization of what it generates.’17 (As Ursula Le Guin once wrote, ‘In the market place, the word creativity has come to mean the generation of ideas applicable to practical strategies to make larger profits. This reduction has gone on
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