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Anderson Ranch Reading List
I am enclosing a starter list of books on art and ideas that I consider useful to have read. Don’t look for a common point of view: it is not here: this list does not “add up.”
Art After Modernism by Brian Wallis
The Genius Decision by K. Ottmann
Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes
The Anti-Aesthetic by Hal Foster
Less than One by Joseph Brodsky
The Shape of Content by Ben Shahn
Nietzsche's Philosophy of Art by J. Young
Culture and Value by L. Wittgenstein
Selected Essays by John Berger
Painting as an Art by Richard Wollheim
Art After Modernism by Brian Wallis
The Genius Decision by K. Ottmann
Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes
The Anti-Aesthetic by Hal Foster
Less than One by Joseph Brodsky
The Shape of Content by Ben Shahn
Nietzsche's Philosophy of Art by J. Young
Culture and Value by L. Wittgenstein
Selected Essays by John Berger
Painting as an Art by Richard Wollheim
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posted by EMC at
7:17 AM
2 Comments:
Enrique-
Before I begin, let me say that your work and your words have been immensely important to me and my development as an artist. I am really just beginning my artistic journey and I feel that you have given me a source from which to find my direction.
While I feel a strong connection to everything of yours I have seen and read, I have a hard time coming to terms with a part of your teaching.
You often speak of authenticity. This, above all else in your teaching is what I embrace. Authenticity radiates from all great art works and it is a feeling I strive to obtain in the creation of my own.
What I have a hard time understanding is how authenticity relates to the understanding of art theory that you seem to stress. You have posted several lists filled with dozens of books about modernism, art theory, art philosophy. I have not read them all so I cannot claim to truly understand what you are getting at with these lists. However, speaking from my limited experience and understanding, it seems to me that authenticity comes from a place much deeper than art theory. The authenticity that I catch just glimpses of when I make art comes from a place before ideas, before thought.
What I am asking you is how does art theory feed authenticity? Or does it serve a purpose outside of authenticity that you deem important?
Thank you for everything,
Cory
To make myself more clear:
You once said:
"Nature is a building with an invisible exterior and we live on the inside. Science and mathematics are a scaffolding that facilitates investigations on the structure as well as one of the best things we have to make any inferences about its shape."
In my mind, "authenticity" - or the state of pure being that can be obtained while making art and can be found in great works of art- breathes and struggles and dances inside of nature's "building" while art theory is, like science, scaffolding around the building.
To me, what is important in art is reaching deep into the silence of nature's "building." I do not find theoretical understanding of art helpful in this pursuit, and I really just want to know if you do.
Cory
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