Following an effort that rather resembled the one to get my taxes together, I have updated the Asynchronous Studio Book Club calendar. Starting Friday, we will spend two weeks on The Sphinx and the Milky Way: Selections from the Journals of Charles Burchfield. Following that are a couple of short and especially affordable books, Only the Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation by Josef Pieper, and Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice: A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action by J.F. Martel.
After those we’ll read Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style by Wilhelm Worringer. This was recommended to me by Ophir Agassi, may God rest his radiant soul. Subsequently, we’ll have our summer fiction title, Old Masters: A Comedy by the famously prickly Thomas Bernhard. This was given to me as a gift by Dr. Kathrin Gärtner in Vienna when I was doing my Fulbright and I’m very much looking forward to tackling it finally. I thought it would be amusing to segue from that to In the Kitchen of Art: Selected Essays and Criticism, 2003-20 by Marco Grassi, on which we’ll spend a leisurely three weeks.
If you recommended a title but don’t see it here, it’s probably in the hopper for future months.
Also I created a “Completed Books” section with links to germane DMJ posts. We’ve already come a long way and we’re just getting started.
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The next entry of the Asynchronous Studio Book Club is The Sphinx and the Milky Way: Selections from the Journals of Charles Burchfield. For more information see the ASBC calendar.
Dissident Muse’s first publication, Backseat Driver by James Croak, is available now at Amazon.
Aphorisms for Artists: 100 Ways Toward Better Art by Walter Darby Bannard is out now at Allworth Press. More information is available at the site for the book. If you own it already, thank you; please consider reviewing the book at Amazon, B&N, or Goodreads.