pickA fantastic and accessible nonfiction book about women and feminism in art throughout history. Although I have the hard copy I listened to the audiobook which was wonderfully narrated with passion while making it easy to understand for anyone like me who knows little about the subject
So engaging and informative, I‘ll go back to this again
4 ⭐️
so-soMeditations and musing on art. What makes something art? What makes art good? Where is the cutting edge? I enjoy Perry's irreverent, playful ponderings.
He does a lot of hedging his bets, but I do sometimes disagree when he expresses a solid opinion - e.g. that we've reached the end of the road when it comes to innovation & pushing boundaries, or the emphasis on art school as a way in.
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(Something did upset me. See comments.)
My April Christmas gift …. That‘s what I read this month (( one of many reads ))
pickThe first half of this book is excellent in the exploration of art, why it matters, why we are compelled to create, how it speaks and moves us. The second half, while interesting, fell a bit short for me. Still well worth the read though.
"One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is teach us how to suffer more successfully."
Coffee breaks full of pouring over books and scribbling (and sometimes chocolate)
pickThis collection of short essays by influential Italian designer and graphic artist Bruno Munari is considered a classic. It‘s translated by Patrick Creagh. A soft pick, because the good—humorous, informative, thought-provoking—outweighs the bad: dated attitude, language and ideas.
I will not say that all Japanese craftsmen are good, but most of them are. They have tradition behind them. Of course there are also those who ape Western styles, using bamboo for abstract decorations that might just as well have been made out of plastic tubing. Such workmen simply show their lack of intelligence.
[Munari certainly had strong opinions about design.]
One of the effects of the total lack of punctuation in the last chapter of Joyce‘s Ulysses is that it changes our reading speed.
