November 2010
“Monet painted at least twenty-five wheatstack canvases though the fading of fall...”
– Monet’s Wheatstacks
“Paul Gauguin is a shit. He was a great painter, but he was really a shit.”
– Professor Silver
“I was never much of a romantic,
I could never take the intimacy.
And i know it...”
– Runaway, Kanye West
“The only obsession everyone wants: Love. People think that in falling in love...”
– Philip Roth, The Dying Animal (via skyisland)
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“To perceive the relation of signification is to separate the idea of the concept...”
– Erwin Panofsky, The History of Art as Humanistic Discipline
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Books To Read/Buy/Get From Library:
…because the majority are costly art history textbooks.
1. The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form by Kenneth Clark
2. The Art of Describing by Svetlana Alpers
3. Meaning in the Visual Arts by Erwin Panofsky
(sidenote: Erwin Panofsky changed the face of modern concept of iconography and is thus, the baddest mother fucker around.)
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“You leave the campsite better than you found it. You leave wherever you were...”
– Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, author of Green Deen: What Islam Teaches About Protecting the Planet
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Books To Read/Buy/Get:
A growing and growing list…
1. Amexia by Ed Vulliamy
2. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
3. Voice of America by E.C. Osondu
4. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender
5. Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
6. Representing Women by Linda Nochlin
“As more and more of everything moves online, knowing the rudiments of bookmaking...”
– typo analysis - bookforum.com / in print (via housingworksbookstore)
“A novelist properly should concern himself with the world beneath politics, the...”
– John Updike
