Spring bookshelf

As promised, here is a list of what people have said they'll be reading and reearching this semester. Please take it upon yourself to recommend readings to one another if you can think of anything.

Paul DeMarco Will be writing his paper as a mock submission to an academic conference. An abstract will be available in late February.

Keith Gruber intends "to explore two, integral topics that I will be pursuing in the studio; the Seven Virtues (supplemented with the Seven Sins), and the use/ meaning of the white spaces used in my paintings." On his list are the following texts:

• Batchlor, David. Chromophobia. London. Reaktion Books Ltd: 2000.
• de Goya, Francisco. Los Caprichos. Toronto. Dover Inc: 1969.
• Manguel, Alberto. Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate. New York. Random House: 2001.

Chris Houston wants to "begin an investigation of work by painters and literary artists who present imagery portraying a sense of desolation and social (human) separation, perhaps even despair." In my responses to his proposal, I've sent some specific texts, but I would encourage you to offer your thoughts as well, either in the comments here or by emailing him directly.

Vanessa Juriga "plan[s] to focus on extremely specific points during the spring 2006 semester: Abstract Expressionism, Chinese Calligraphy and landscapes, Sumi-e, and word art." She'll be using:

• Clarke, David. Images of Asia: Modern Chinese Art. Oxford University Press. 2000.
• Gaugh, Harry F. The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline. Cross River Press, Ltd. 1085.
• Sato, Shozo. The Art of Sumi-e: Appreciation, Techniques, and Application. Kodansha International Ltd. 1984.
• Silbergeld, Jerome. Mind Landscapes: The Paintings of C.C. Wang. University of Washington Press. 1987.

Tim Murphy will be looking at the art of children and other primates. He will be reading:

• Chaminade, T., Meltzoff, A. N., & Decety, J. “Does the end justify the means? A PET exploration
of the mechanisms involved in human imitation.” NeuroImage, 15, (2002)
• Decety, J., Chaminade, T., Gre`zes, J., & Meltzoff, A. N. “A PET exploration of the neural
mechanisms involved in reciprocal imitation.” NeuroImage, 15, (2002)
• Galef, B.G., Jr., “The question of animal culture.” Human Nature, 3 (1992)
• Morris, Desmond, The Biology of Art: A study of the Picture-Making Behavior of the Great Apes
and Its Relationship to Human Art (New York: Knopf, 1962)
• Shiller, Paul H., “Figural Preferences in the Drawings of a Chimpanzee,” Journal of Comparative
and Physiological Psychology No. 44 (1951)
• Whiten, A., Custance, D. M., Gomez, J. C., Texidor, P., & Bard, K. A.. “Imitative learning of
artificial fruit processing in children (Homo sapiens) and chimpanzees (Pan
troglodytes).” Journal of Comparative Psychology No. ?? (1996)

Aubrey Navarro plans to do research into a topic of importance to her studio work: folly. She sent a list of titles she'll be looing into:

• Firchow, P. “H. G. Wells's "Time Machine": In Search of Time Future--and Time Past”. The Midwest Quarterly v. 45 no. 2 (Winter 2004) p. 123-36
• Tournier, M. “Jules Verne and Around the World in Eighty Days”. World Literature Today v. 76 no. 2 (Spring 2002) p. 107-8
• Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard. The Invention of the aeroplane, 1799-1909. New York, Taplinger, 1966
• Van Dulken, Stephen. Inventing the 19th century : 100 inventions that shaped the Victorian Age from aspirin to the Zeppelin. New York : New York University Press, 2001
• Van Dulken, Stephen. Inventing the 20th century : 100 inventions that shaped the world from the airplane to the zipper. New York : New York University Press, 2002

Mike Reenock is addressing the theme of "representation of the self in narrative" and will be producing a single long paper this semester. Its bibliography will evolve as it is written.

Terri Saulin will be addressing the importance of complexity contemporary art, partly inspired by the Swarm show at the fabric Workshop and Museum. She'll be reading:

• Batchelor, David, Chromophobia. Reaktion Books Ltd., London, 2000, 2002 & 2005.
• Beckley, Bill, David Shapiro, Ed. Uncontrollable Beauty. Allworth Press, NY, NY, 1998.
• Danto, Arthur C., After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1997.
• Danto, Arthur C., The Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art. Open Court / Carus Publishing, Chicago and La Salle Ill., 2003.
• Del Vecchio, Mark, Garth Clark, Postmodern Ceramics. Thames and Hudson, NY, NY 2001.
Elkins, James, The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing. A Harvest Edition, Harcourt, Inc., San Diego, NY & London, 1996.
• Hickey, Dave, Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy. Art Issues. Press, Los Angeles, CA, 1997.
• Hickey, Dave, The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty. Art Issues. Press, Los Angeles, CA, 1993, 5th impression, 1999.
• Johnson, Steven, Emergence: The connected lives of ants, brains cities and software. Scribner, NY, NY, 2001.
• Miller, Abbott, Ellen Lupton, Swarm. The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Phila. PA, 2005.
• Waldrop, M. Mitchell, Complexity: The emerging science at the edge of order and chaos. A Touchstone Book, Simon &Schuster, NY, London, Toronto & Sydney, 1992.
• Wolfram, Stephen, A New Kind of Science. Wolfram Media, Inc., Champaign, Il., 2002.

Maleese Schick will be writing numerous short papers about her studio work and issues concerning her faith, beginning by revisiting Eve's role in the Fall of Man. Her readings include:

• Adler, Rachel.Engendering Judaism : An Inclusive Theology and Ethics.Boston: Beacon Press 1999.
• Baskin, Judith. Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature. Hanover and London: Bradeis University Press, 199?
• Biale, Rachel. Women and Jewish Law : The Essential Texts, Their History, and Their Relevance for Today New York: Shocken Books inc, 1984
• Cox, Meg, The Heart of Family: Searchung America for New Traditions That Fulfill Us.New York: Random House, 1998.
• Plaskow, Judith,The Coming of Lilith : Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics, 1972-2003. Boston, 2005.
• Plaskow, Judith, Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminst Perspective. San Francisco, 1991.
• Ochs Vanessa, Sarah Laughed, Modern lessons from thee wisdom and stories of biblical women. New York: Mc Graw Hill, 2005

Deb Yarrington moves from fairy tales to myth this term. She'll be reading:

• Tony Cragg: Signs of LifeWenzel Jacob
• Michael Lucero: Sculpture 1976-199Mark Richard Leach
• Danville Chadbourne (Ceramics Monthly article by Jim LavillaHavelin)
• Son of a Witch Gregory Maguire
• Mirror Mirror Gregory Maguire
• The Power of Myth Joseph Campbell
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell