Everybody Got to Deviate From the Norm

An Asynchronous Studio Book Club adjustment. Your input is solicited.

Due to a professional obligation to attend the NSU Art Museum today, to see the “Glory of the World” exhibition (reference shot above, Louis in the foreground, Olitski on the left; review is forthcoming in The New Criterion), and the fact that readers, I gather, are not getting into the current Asynchronous Studio Book Club selection, I will skip discussion of said book and finalize my thoughts on it next Friday. In the meantime, here is the painfully vertical shot-for-Instagram video of one of the rooms.

For your part, kindly suggest ASBC titles, either below or via the usual channels. The requirements are relevance to studio life (however tangential), ready availability in the form of a single edition that anyone can acquire (no hunting down used books, etc.), and a price point south of $30 with under $20 preferred (Totality at $40 was planned to be a rare occurrence). I have some ideas of my own:

• The Sphinx and the Milky Way: Selections from the Journals of Charles Burchfield

• Crowther, Phenomenology of the Visual Arts (even the frame)

• Crowther, The Phenomenology of Modern Art: Exploding Deleuze, Illuminating Style (I’m open to doing a whole Crowtherfest)

• Bowden and Johnson, Reactionary Modernism

• Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought

• Han, Non-things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld

• Calvino, The Complete Cosmicomics

• Deresiewicz, The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech

• Von Hildebrand, Aesthetics I and II

…but I’d like to hear yours.

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Our current book for the Asynchronous Studio Book Club is Aesthetics of the Familiar: Everyday Life and World-Making by Yuriko Saito. Obtain your copy and jump in. For more information see the ASBC schedule.

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.