Artist Definition, Methodology and Review Sources – General Discussion:

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Heikkinen, Merja. 1995. "Evaluating the Effects of Direct Support on the Economic Situation of Artists." Journal of Cultural Economics, 19(3): 261-72. (Literature Review)

Karttunen, Sari. 1998. "How to Identify Artists? Defining the Population for `Status-of-the-Artist Studies." Poetics 26: 1-19.

Menger, Pierre-Michel. 1999. "Artistic Labor Markets and Careers." Annual Review of Sociology 25: 541-74. (Integrative literature review.)

Mitchell, R. and Sari Karttunen. 1992. "Why and How to Define an Artist." Pp. 175-86 in Cultural Economics, edited by R. Towse and A. Khakee. Berlin: Springer.

National Endowment for the Arts. "Artists employed in 1983 revised occupational classification system now in use." Journal of Cultural Economics, : 86-90.

Research Center for Arts and Culture, Columbia University. 2000. "Bibliography: Research About Artists." http://www.tc.columbia.edu/academic/rcac/

Throsby, David. 1992. "The Economics of the Visual Arts." Ricerche-Economiche, 46(1-2): 111-20.

Towse, Ruth. 1992. "The Labour Market for Artists." Ricerche-Economiche, 46(1-2): 55-73. (Literature Review)