Dissident Muse Asynchronous Studio Book Club

Dissident Muse Journal

Scheduled Reading

Week 46, Friday, November 15, 2024: Art Can Help by Robert Adams, p. 46 through end

Week 47, Friday, November 22, 2024: Working Space by Frank Stella, start through Annibale Caracci (p. 70)

Week 48, Friday, November 29, 2024: Break

Week 49, Friday, December 6, 2024: Working Space by Frank Stella, Picasso (p. 71) through end

Week 50, Friday, December 13, 2024: Art in America 1945-1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism by Jed Perl (editor), start through p. 37

Week 51, Friday, December 20, 2024: Art in America 1945-1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism by Jed Perl (editor), pp. 38-81

Week 52, Friday, December 27, 2024: Break

Week 1, Friday, January 3, 2025: Break

Week 2, Friday, January 10, 2025: Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature by Alva Noë, start through p. 48

Week 3, Friday, January 17, 2025: Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature by Alva Noë, pp. 49-112

Week 4, Friday, January 24, 2025: Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature by Alva Noë, pp. 112-161

Week 5, Friday, January 31, 2025: Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature by Alva Noë, p. 162 through end

Week 6, Friday, February 7, 2025: Art in America 1945-1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism by Jed Perl (editor), pp. 82-124

Week 7, Friday, February 14, 2025: Art in America 1945-1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism by Jed Perl (editor), pp. 125-168

Week 8, Friday, February 21, 2025: What Is Art? (Aylmer Maude translation) by Leo Tolstoy, start through Chapter 5

Week 9, Friday, February 28, 2025: What Is Art? (Aylmer Maude translation) by Leo Tolstoy, Chapters 6-10

Week 10, Friday, March 7, 2025: What Is Art? (Aylmer Maude translation) by Leo Tolstoy, Chapters 11-15

Week 11, Friday, March 14, 2025: What Is Art? (Aylmer Maude translation) by Leo Tolstoy, Chapter 16 through end

Week 12, Friday, March 21, 2025: Break

Week 13, Friday, March 28, 2025: Break

Week 14, Friday, April 4, 2025: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Chapter 1

Week 15, Friday, April 11, 2025: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Chapter 2

Week 16, Friday, April 18, 2025: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Chapter 3

Week 17, Friday, April 25, 2025: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Chapter 4

Week 18, Friday, May 2, 2025: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Chapter 5

Week 19, Friday, May 9, 2025: Art in America 1945-1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism by Jed Perl (editor), pp. 169-205

Week 20, Friday, May 16, 2025: Art in America 1945-1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism by Jed Perl (editor), pp. 206-244

Week 21, Friday, May 23, 2025: Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars by Camille Paglia, start through Chapter 7

Week 22, Friday, May 30, 2025: Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars by Camille Paglia, Chapters 7-14

Week 23, Friday, June 6, 2025: Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars by Camille Paglia, Chapters 15-21

Week 24, Friday, June 13, 2025: Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars by Camille Paglia, Chapter 22 through end

Week 25, Friday, June 20, 2025: Art in America 1945-1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism by Jed Perl (editor), pp. 245-290

Week 26, Friday, June 27, 2025: Art in America 1945-1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism by Jed Perl (editor), pp. 291-326

Completed Reading

Yield by Anne Truitt [1] [2] [3 and final]

Totality: Abstraction and Meaning in the Art of Barnett Newman by Michael Schreyach [Chapter 1, Symbol] [Chapter 1, Symbol (a)] [Chapter 2, Surface] [Chapter 3, Self-Evidence] [Chapter 4, Space] [Chapter 5, Standpoint] [Chapter 6, Scale]

The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin [start through through Success (p.219)] [Connected Detachment (Possibility) (p.225) through end]

I Paint What I Want to See by Philip Guston [start through Talk at Yale Summer School of Music and Art (p.77)] [Conversation with Clark Coolidge (p.111) through end]

Aesthetics of the Familiar: Everyday Life and World-Making by Yuriko Saito [1.1] [1.2] [fin]

The Sphinx and the Milky Way: Selections from the Journals of Charles Burchfield by Charles Burchfield [start to p.80] [p.82 to end]

Only the Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation by Josef Pieper [all]

Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice: A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action by J.F. Martel [1] [2] [3]

Old Masters: A Comedy by Thomas Bernhard [start to p.80] [pp.80-160] [p.161 to end]

In the Kitchen of Art: Selected Essays and Criticism, 2003-20 by Marco Grassi [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]

Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style by Wilhelm Worringer [Part One] [Part One, second attempt] [Part Two]

The Shape of Content by Ben Shahn [start through The Biography of a Painting (p. 52)] [The Shape of Content (p. 53) through end]

The World of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty [start through Exploring the World of Perception: Space (p. 43)] [Exploring the World of Perception: Sensory Objects (p. 45) through end]

Art Can Help by Robert Adams [start through p. 45]