Required Readingasm
Today's trip to the campus bookstore sorta blew my mind. I'm still all:
You're paying me to do what ‽
- Sarah Vap, American Spikenard
- Myung Mi Kim, Commons
- Kathleen Halme, Drift & Pulse
- Quan Barry, Controvertibles
- Brian Henry, The Stripping Point
- A.R. Ammons, Garbage
- Terrance Hayes, Wind in a Box
- V. Penelope Pelizzon, Nostos
- Greg Hewett, The Eros Conspiracy
- Daniel Nester, The History of My World Tonight
- Tracy K. Smith, Duende
- Karen Holmberg, The Perseids
- Cynthia Hogue, The Incognito Body
- Gabrielle Calvocoressi, The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart
- Peter Balakian, June-tree
- Stephen Yenser, Blue Guide
- Dan Beachy-Quick, Mulberry
- Andre Breton, Nadji
- Richard Humphreys, Futurism
- Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
- Matthew Gale, Dada and Surrealism
- Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art
- Bertolt Brecht, Baal, A Man's a Man, and the Elephant Calf
- Irmgard Keun, The Artificial Silk Girl
- John Berger, Ways of Seeing
- Anna Balakian, Surrealism: The Road to the Absolute
Comments
One title on the list that jumped out at me is John Berger's "Ways of Seeing." I've read him voraciously for the past almost 20 years. He's the only art critic I can read more than a few words of.
"Ways of Seeing" was the first book of his that I read, and I found it a good introduction to him and his ideas, in particular because the book include many many pictures (photos and photographed paintings) as examples of the art concepts he talks about.
I like Brecht too. My favorite play of his that I've read is "Galileo."
A reading list that long would almost scare me off -- but yeah, oh to have the time. :)
Posted by: Lyle Daggett | August 23, 2007 12:20 AM