—”Even one minute of music is an awful lot of black dots on a page.”
Unsure about music, but visual artists often work with skilled students and assistants...
Christo wasn’t repelling on the side of the Arc de Triomphe to wrap it, at that time he was pinning for the fords or something.
A coworker’s family owned a fabrication shop for artists, they bring in the plans and they would shape and weld it.
Guessing that Andy Warhol ‘guided the process?
Many busy writers simply provide an outline to their staff...
A fun example:
“Naked Came the Stranger”
is a 1969 novel written as a literary hoax poking fun at the American literary culture of its time. Though credited to “Penelope Ashe,” it was in fact written by a group of twenty-four journalists led by Newsday columnist Mike McGrady.
McGrady’s intention was to write a book that was both deliberately terrible and contained a lot of descriptions of sex, to illustrate the point that popular American literary culture had become mindlessly vulgar. The book fulfilled the authors’ expectations and became a bestseller in 1969; they revealed the hoax later that year, further spurring the book’s popularity.
...The publisher, Lyle Stuart, was an independent publisher then known for controversial books, many with sexual content. According to Stuart, he had appropriated the cover photo (a kneeling nude woman with very long hair down her back, photographed from behind) from a Hungarian nudist magazine; the model and photographer later demanded and received payment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Came_the_Stranger
And, then there's Dali.
Toward the end, all he did was sign blank canvases, for money, of course.
Because of his late-life laziness, he's become the second most forged artist in history, after Picasso.
In fact, I own a fake (not forged) Dali that's supposed to be one of the Song of Solomon set. I've also got one of the real Song of Solomon lithos.
The fake one is laughably bad. It looks like an 8-year-old drew it. In fact, it's so bad, it's good. Well, not really good, but it is fun to own a fake Dali. I inherited them from my Mom, who was a real Dali fan.