A user-friendly guide explains in detail how an artist made $30,000 using the Internet.

It's time for artists to start taking advantage of the Internet and make it work for them. From beginner to advance, this book fills the gaps about using the World-Wide Web, e-mail, ebay: designing your site, auctioning on the web, broadcasting, meta tags, guerrilla tactics, all about search engines, hundreds of sites to browse.

The first book of its kind, Arts and the Internet explores avenues for selling, exhibiting, promoting, and creating artwork on the Internet. Covering a wide variety of subjects, from virtual art openings and performances to the creation of new audiences, this book will help artists and arts organizations benefit from existing resources and prepare for new opportunities to come.

The definitive guide to taking control of your career and making a good living in the art world. Drawing on nearly three decades of experience, Caroll Michels offers a wealth of insider's information on getting into a gallery, being your own PR agent, and negotiating prices, as well as innovative marketing, exhibition, and sales opportunities for various artistic disciplines. She has also added a new section on digital printmaking and marketing in this emerging field.

In the first book of its kind, art information expert Lois Swan Jones discusses how to locate visual and textual information on the Internet and how to evaluate and supplement that information with material from other formats--print sources, CD-ROMS, documentary videos, and microfiche sets--to produce excellent research results. The book is divided into three sections: Basic Information Formats; Types of Websites and How to Find Them; and How to Use Web Information. Jones discusses the strengths and limitations of Websites; scholarly and basic information resources are noted; and search strategies for finding pertinent Websites are included. Art Information and the Internet also discusses research methodology for studying art-historical styles, artists working in various media, individual works of art, and non-Western cultures--as well as art education, writing about art, problems of copyright, and issues concerning the buying and selling of art. This title will be periodically updated.

This new and expanded edition includes the very latest developments on the Net. Fully revised, this book is your road map into the amazing world of Cyberspace.