There is a good book by Edward Winkleman How to start and run a commercial art gallery
Can you learn how to swim by book?
"How to built your network in your art world" should be the title of the book you need, but I don't know if this book has ever been written. And even if is should have been written, what would be the use of it?
How to make friends in the art world?
How to become an artist in 3 lessons?
The best teachers are the successful gallery owners, but are they eager to teach?
The best you could to is to trying to work in a gallery as a student trainee of probationer.
What you need to learn is a practice that will never reachable by books.
You cannot learn how to swim by reading
Dear Mr. Buggenhout, thank you very much for your response, I still think that those books could have a lot of inspirational tips and advices for all of us, new in the field. You cant learn how to swim by reading, but you might read whom to conntact to teach me, what are all of those techniques I could use and what mistakes should be avoid in the beginning to not to drown down. :)
There is a good book by Edward Winkleman How to start and run a commercial art gallery
Some books:
Resch, Magnus - Management of Art Galleries. London: Phaidon, 2018. [important book]
Winkleman, Edward - Selling Contemporary Art: How to Navigate the Evolving Market. New York: Allworth Press, 2017.
Crawford, Tad and Mellon, Susan - The Artist-Gallery Partnership: A Practical Guide to Consigning Art. New York: Allworth Press, 2008.
Lima dos Santos, Maria de Lourdes; Melo, Alexandre e Martinho, Teresa Duarte. Galerias de Arte em Lisboa. Lisboa: Observatório das Actividades Culturais, 2001.
Melo, Alexandre. Arte e Mercado em Portugal: Inquérito às Galerias e uma Carreira de Artista. Lisboa: Observatório das Actividades Culturais, 1999.
Carlos Alberto Matos Trindade thank you so much! That is exactly what I needed!
Gerard Corsane, Heritage, Museums and Galleries: An Introduction (London and Network: Routledge, 2005). This book will be good for a beginner.
The following books as well will be helpful:
http://www.worldcat.org/title/manual-of-museum-exhibitions/oclc/876592184
https://www.amazon.com/Exhibition-Art-Graphics-Space-Design/dp/8416504490
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