Reading Suggestions
From March 2012
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Paul Klein suggested:
-The Girl with A Gallery, Lindsay Pollock, now Art in America Editor
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/12/arts/12iht-idbriefs13f.4181796.html-Philip Guston, a Memoir, Musa Meyar
http://www.amazon.com/Night-Studio-Memoir-Philip-Guston/dp/030680767X
Wesley Kimler suggested
-of particular interest: Stephen Beyst Luc Tuymans : A Misunderstanding
http://d-sites.net/english/tuymans.htm-Jed Perl, Laissez Fair Aesthetics
http://www.edwardwinkleman.com/2007/05/perls-laissez-faire-aesthetics.html-Perl, St. Gerhard Of The Sorrows/
-John Currin Beyond Belief/ Bullshit Heaven
http://www.sharkforum.org/2006/01/whats-wrong-with-the-art-world.html
Jason Foumberg suggested:
-Franz Schulze, "Fantastic Images: Chicago Art Since 1945"
http://www.amazon.com/Fantastic-images-Chicago-since-1945/dp/B0006D072C-Diane Grams, "Producing Local Color: Art Networks in Ethnic Chicago"
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo9470689.html-Phonebook 1, 2, and 3 (each contains essays), published by Green Lantern Press
http://three-walls.org/store/publications/#000493-haven't read it yet but may be of interest: Mary Jane Jacob, "Chicago Makes Modern"
http://www.amazon.com/Chicago-Makes-Modern-Creative-Changed/dp/0226389561/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332351797&sr=1-1-"The State of Art Criticism," edited by James Elkins
http://books.google.com/books/about/The_state_of_art_criticism.html?id=6KiCQohYWNsC-"Sacred Spaces and Other Places: A Guide to Grottos and Sculptural Environments in the Upper Midwest," by Jim Zanzi and Lisa Stone
http://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Spaces-Other-Places-Environments/dp/0963781707-James Yood, "Second Sight: Printmaking in Chicago"
http://www.amazon.com/Second-Sight-Printmaking-Chicago-1935-1995/dp/0941680177-Art in Print (new digital magazine on printmaking)
http://artinprint.org/-Lynne Warren, "Alternative Spaces:A History in Chicago
http://www.amazon.com/Alternative-spaces-history-Lynne-Warren/dp/0933856180--Art in Chicago: 1955-1995" MCA
Philip von Zweck suggested:
-For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there by Anthony Huberman
http://www.amazon.com/Blind-Dark-Looking-Black-There/dp/0977752860-The Ignorant Schoolmaster: 5 lessons in intellectual emancipation by Jacques Ranciere (I know, I know this is totally hip- but it is for a reason, good shit)
http://www.amazon.com/Ignorant-Schoolmaster-Lessons-Intellectual-Emancipation/dp/0804719691-Frozen Tears edited by John Russell
http://www.frozentears.co.uk/
Aaron Delehanty suggests:
-What is Contemporary Art, E-Flux Journal
http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/what-is-contemporary-art-out-now-on-sternberg-press/-Landscape Theory (the Art Seminar) by Rachel Z. DeLue and James Elkins
http://www.amazon.com/Landscape-Theory-The-Art-Seminar/dp/0415960541/ref=sr_1_fkmr3_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1332351117&sr=8-2-fkmr3-Vaclav Havel’s Disturbing the Peace-- if you want to uncover a powerful method for how creative thinking can lead (wo)men
http://www.amazon.com/Disturbing-Peace-Conversation-Karel-Huizdala/dp/0679734023-Formulas for Painters, by Massey (ever want to make all kinds of paint?)
http://books.google.com/books?id=3cSl0wqolqMC&dq=massey+mediums&source=gbs_navlinks_sEverything you ever wanted to know
http://www.historyofinformation.com/index.php?era=2012
Bill Ayers suggests:
-Gwendolyn Brooks' poem "Dedication to Picasso"
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/gwendolyn-brooks-Haki Madhubuti's poem "Art"
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102593652-Jane Kramer's provocative book Whose Art is It?
http://www.amazon.com/Whose-Art-Public-Planet-Books/dp/0822315491
Jeff Zimmermann suggests
-Ross King, Michelangelo and the Popes Ceiling. Real story of a huge undertaking. Great history
http://www.amazon.com/Michelangelo-Popes-Ceiling-Ross-King/dp/0142003697-Victoria Finlay, Color - ever hear that Indian yellow comes from cow's piss after they've eaten rotten mangoes in India? Yeah, that was a lie to protect their secret. Great stories of where we get our colors
http://books.google.com/books/about/Color.html?id=X0iTdXt1XoMC
Daniel Tucker suggests
-Not to tute my own horn but..I recommend things ive written for the Belgian magazine -H-Art - a 5 part series entitled “Critical Culture in Chicago” (read articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
http://miscprojects.com/2009/01/21/chicago-art-series-article-2-on-groups-and-spaces/-and interviews Rebecca and I have done at
http://never-the-same.org/-5 questions about art in chicago
http://5questions.areachicago.org/-and the Trashing the Neoliberal City catalog
http://www.learningsite.info/NeoTrashing.pdf
Duncan MacKenzie suggests:
-For the professional stuff... I would look at Ed Winkleman's blog
(http://www.edwardwinkleman.com/)-and that book Art/Work is pretty damn useful.
http://artworkbook.net/
Brandon Alvendia suggests:
-Here's my suggested website. Super fun and historical Chicago discussion archive.
http://spaces.org/archive/other/index.php
Rebecca Zorach suggests:
-Never the same
http://never-the-same.org/
Jim Duignan suggests:
-Pedagogy of the Oppressed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogy_of_the_Oppressed
EC Brown suggests:
Bad at Sports had a post discussing Other Peoples Pixels and website options:
http://badatsports.com/2011/you-down-with-opp-a-primer-on-artist-websites/-I myself had posted a web-primer for artists, about 8 years ago. Too much
of it is outdated, but I suppose a page or two might still have some useful information.
http://ecbrown.org/tutorial/
Holly Sabin of Hinge Gallery suggests:
-Sarah Thornton's Seven Days in the Art World
http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Days-World-Sarah-Thornton/dp/039306722X-Modern Painters Magazine has great reviews and interesting articles
http://www.artinfo.com/modern-painters-magazine-for finding out what's going on around town:
thevisualist.org
chicagogallerynews.com
chicagoartmagazine.com
sixtyinchesfromcenter.org
Bert Stabler suggests
The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic?
Serendipities: Language and Lunacy, rEco, Umberto
Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism, Badiou, Alain
Soul on Ice, Cleaver, Eldridge
The Problem of Pain , Lewis, C.S.
Michelle Grabner suggests:
-Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age
Kenneth Goldsmith, 272 pages, 27 illus.ISBN: 978-0-231-14991-4
http://www.amazon.com/Uncreative-Writing-Managing-Language-Digital/dp/0231149905
Shannon Stratton suggests:
-Art/Work is the one book I know about and used in a class once.
http://artworkbook.net/-Of course our PHONEBOOK might be useful too (as far as being a comprehensive listing of opportunities in the country)
http://three-walls.org/programs/phonebook/
Your itinerant art worker, Conrad Freiburg would suggest a tasting of:
-Zizek's In Defense of Lost Causes, (which ruined my life)
http://www.amazon.com/Defense-Lost-Causes-Slavoj-iek/dp/1844671089-Dostoevsky's the Idiot, (which helped me remember the best people
appear as idiots to most the world)
http://community.middlebury.edu/~beyer/courses/previous/ru351/novels/idiot/idiot.shtml-Coyne and Knutsen's The Urban Homestead (for self-reliance)
http://www.amazon.com/Urban-Homestead-Self-sufficient-Process-Self-reliance/dp/1934170011-and though it is not a book, the list of logical fallacies listed at the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe.
http://www.theskepticsguide.org/resources/logicalfallacies.aspx