Austin Kleon — Should artists take credit if assistants help? |...

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Although I warned them I was woefully underqualified, CTV News asked me to chime in on the subject:

In Austin Kleon’s opinion, artists shouldn’t be judged solely on whether or not all of their work is produced with their own hands.

“In some sense, art is always a collaboration – an artist is always working with other artists,” the author of “How to Steal Like an Artist” wrote in an email.

He’s critical of the idea of any artist as completely independent. As an example, he pointed to films attributed to so-called auteur directors, who produced their work with the help of hundreds of people.

Expanding on the idea of art as collaboration, he added, “Whether they’re borrowing influences, or turning their back on a tradition and trying to do something completely new – either way, art is not created in a vacuum.”

And just in case I’d be mistaken for defending Damien Hirst — and oh, I assure you, I am not — here’s a sentence they left out: “If there’s something to be insulted by, it’s the quality of Hirst’s art—not who actually made it.”

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