so-soAnd around and around we go! 😵💫 When the book started with a chapter about whitescapes, an apparent critique of minimalist architecture/interior design, I thought maybe we were going to consider individual colours, how people historically have reacted to them, how they might arouse fear, disgust, phobia, as much as praise, from an art-focused, rather than psychological basis. 1/?
pickI‘m in that “short audiobook” stage of my reading challenge for the year 🙃 I‘ve been wanting to read this for a while - it was great. Really good book on the challenges of creativity. I took a lot of notes. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickI think the thing that is most interesting but also most upsetting about this book is that it was written in 1995 but is still so relevant. Obviously hooks is brilliant, but it means that the state of discourse around art, race, and gender has really not progressed much in the past 30 years.
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
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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 ))
I guess if you're going to look at the range of opinions in art criticism and see what the reasoning was behind chromophobia you'll sample whatever period 1mo
So:
Some older people have not liked colour and their reasons are kind of sus, many people, artists, have worked with and discussed colour (some are recognized as trailblazers for doing so) in ways that might not be recognized as art by the older guys, but why should we care what they thought? 1mo