Another answer is that even the fortunes of these artists pale in comparison with contemporary artistic profits.
For several reasons; First of all, although artistic non-profits currently receive very little federal funding, the fact is that the grants they do receive from the NEA National Endowment for the Artss), because of the rigorous nature of their application process and the authority then bestowed on the projects and organizations awarded, leads to eight raised dollars for every grant dollar awarded.
In Mr. Chodorov's boyish telling (which begins with a home movie), experimental cinema is open to anyone with the urge to make stuff and the willingness to put aside artistic assumptions and profit.
It's profit versus "artistic temperament", and the picture doesn't flatter either party.
The roof could be rented at substantial profit for artistic purposes.
The site, Artists Wantedorg, is not a charity but a business, one that hopes to make a profit identifying artistic talent and connecting it to an audience.org
There's no inevitable connection between financial risk and artistic risk — nor between profit (or, for that matter, loss) and artistic achievement; most experienced filmmakers have learned, among other things, to cope with the system under which they work, whether that of an untrammelled free market or of subsidy, and to deploy its means toward their artistic ends.
Studios, thrilled by 3-D's dual promises of higher profits and artistic advancement, have aggressively embraced the technology without waiting for movie theaters to get on board.
It is not, as marketers would have it, a rear-guard reaction from an old continent – it is the fight for a rich intellectual and artistic debate in which profit-making should not be the only consideration.
Theatre now, like everything else in Britain, is a commercial enterprise more concerned with box-office figures and profit margins than artistic matters.
