Creative Legacies: Artists' Estates and Foundations - Hardcover

by Kathy Battista (Editor), Bryan Faller (Editor)

Creative Legacies provides a nuanced investigation of specific topics relevant to artists' legacies. The book includes carefully selected perspectives from many of the world's foremost thought-leaders and practitioners in this field. Readers will come away from the book with a greater awareness of the complex issues central to working with creative individuals and how these and the scholarly dialogues pertaining to them affect the legacies in the present as well as in perpetuity.

Unlike a 'how-to' guide or an instruction manual, Creative Legacies illustrates that there is no singular or standard approach when working with artists; it highlights a spectrum of issues and considerations essential to understanding how a creative legacy is perceived and maintained economically, curatorially and critically.

Includes contributions by Kathy Battista, Alexandra Bowes-Lyon, Bryan Faller, Nathalie Khan, Christine Kuan, Lisa Le Feuvre, Christy MacLear, Daniel McClean, Tom McNulty, Mark Morris, Judith B. Prowda, Ann-Marie Richard, Christine J. Vincent, Eric M. Wolf, Robin Wright and Loretta Würtenberger.

Author Biography

Dr. Kathy Battista is Director Emirata of MA Contemporary Art at Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York as well as a practicing curator and writer. Her publications include New York New Wave: The Legacy of Feminist Art in Emerging Practice and Renegotiating the Body: Feminist Art in 1970s London. Bryan Faller is a financial adviser specializing in the primary Contemporary markets and secondary Impressionist, Modern, and Contemporary art markets. He is faculty of Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York, teaching on the MA in Art Business.