Catch and Release: November 2008

Dilbert so often sums it up for me.

Third Semester Reading List and Journals

WACK Exhibition Catalog
The Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles; PS1 Exhibit Brooklyn, NY

But is it Art?
Cynthia Freeland

Letters to a Young Artist
Art on Paper

The Writings of Agnes Martin. Essays
R. Krauss, A. Wagner

Chromophobia
David Batchelor

Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science
and the Spiritual
Lynn Gamwell

The Spiritual in Art:
Abstract Painting 1890-1985
Maurice Tuchman

A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle

Journals:

Painting Marriage: Eva Hesse’s Abstract Expressionism, Kristen Swenson, Woman’s Art Journal 28 No.1. (Spring/Summer, 2007), pp. 19-25

Slight of Hand: Agnes Martin’s Hermetic Paintings, Charles Darwent, Modern Painters (July/August, 2005), pp. 91-93

Myth & Nature in Paul Klee’s ‘Metamorphose’ Yvonne Scott, The Burlington Magazine, Vol.142 No.1165. (April, 2000), pp. 226-228

Arthur G. Dove and the Origins of Abstract Expressionism: Helen A. Harrison, American Art Vol. 12, No.1. (Spring, 1998), pp. 67-83

Two Methodologies for the Interpretation of Abstract Expressionism, Francis V. O’Connor, Art Journal, Vol.47, No. 3. (Autumn, 1988) 222-228

Moments of Vision, Kenneth Clark, John Adkins Richardson, Leonardo MIT, Vol.16, No.2. (Spring, 1983), pp. 148-149

Aspects of The Fifties, Modernism, Revisionism, Plurism and Post Modernism, Ellen G. Landau, Art Journal Vol. 40, No.I/2. (Winter,1980), pp. 387-389

Abstract Expressionism: The Mystical Experience, Edward M. Levine, Art Journal Vol.31 No. I. (Autumn,1971), pp. 22-25

Abstract Expressionism and Puritanism Vytautas Kavolis, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 21, No.3. (Spring,1963) pp. 315-319

The Vishnudharmottara: A Treatise on Indian Painting & Image-Making, Stella Kramrisch Ph.D. Fine Arts, Calcutta University Press, (1928)

For Inspiration

Zau Wou Ki
James Lavadour
Paul Klee
Stephen Greene
John Grillo
Richard Diebenkorn
Charles and Ray Eames
Caravaggio
William Morris
Aleksandr Rodchenko
Sandro Botticelli
Raphael
John Marin
Eugene Delacroix
Pierre Auguste Renoir
John Singer Sargent
Louise Bourgeois
Annie Lebowitz
Wayne Thiebaud
Cindy Sherman
Frieda Kahlo
Maya Lin
Robert Mapplethorpe
William Turner
Kathe Kollwitz
C. D. Friedrich
Piet Mondrian
William Blake
Vincent van Gogh
Hans Hoffmann
Georgia O'Keeffe
Wolf Kahn
Joan Mitchell
Willem de Kooning
Helen Frankenthaler
Cecily Brown
Gerhard Richter
Wassily Kandinsky

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Art is not that Easy

Detail: "We" from Letterform Series

"Sea Glass"