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foolrush - you seem well studied on the subject. Are there any books you'd recommend?
by orasis 12y ago
foolrush - you seem well studied on the subject. Are there any books you'd recommend?
- foolrush 12y agoNot well studied beyond a BFa at a rather liberal / avant-garde school. And of course a lifelong fascination with the subject that carried on long past postsecondary education. Hard to suggest one book, or even a few to be honest. The hardest thing about much of these sorts of topics is to find the willpower and passion that can carry you through study. That and the extremely difficult act of extending a humility to believe there may be some substance to difficult texts; all too common (and easy) for people to dismiss difficult texts as meaningless / confusing. Any recommendation would have to start with you and what you understand, what you have been exposed to, what interests you, and so on.
- llamataboot 12y agoI'll bite. I'd start with Ways of Seeing by John Berger http://www.amazon.com/Ways-Seeing-John-Berger/dp/014103579X http://www.amazon.com/Ways-Seeing-John-Berger/dp/014103579X
- potatolicious 12y agoI tried to self-study my way into art - futilely for the most part. Your mileage may vary of course, but art didn't really "click" for me until I decided to create some of it myself. Once you start creating art you start realizing that you're walking the same learning path others have taken before you, and this allows you to better contextualize art you see out in the wild. It's a feedback system for me - art I create helps me better understand the how and why of other artists/art, and in turn feed back into the development of my own work, and further understanding, etc ad infinitum (hopefully).