Dissident Muse Asynchronous Studio Book Club

Dissident Muse Journal

Scheduled Reading

Week 8, Sunday, February 22, 2026: Art in America 1945-1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism by Jed Perl (editor), pp. 245-290

Week 9, Sunday, March 1, 2026: Art in America 1945-1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism by Jed Perl (editor), pp. 291-326

Week 10, Sunday, March 8, 2026: Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death by Laura Cumming, start through p. 52

Week 11, Sunday, March 15, 2026: Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death by Laura Cumming, pp. 53-99

Week 12, Sunday, March 22, 2026: Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death by Laura Cumming, pp. 101-156

Week 13, Sunday, March 29, 2026: Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death by Laura Cumming, pp. 157-198

Week 14, Sunday, April 5, 2026: Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death by Laura Cumming, p. 201 through end

Week 15, Sunday, April 12, 2026: Art in America 1945-1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism by Jed Perl (editor), pp. 327-366

Week 16, Sunday, April 19, 2026: Art in America 1945-1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism by Jed Perl (editor), pp. 367-402

Week 17, Sunday, April 26, 2026: Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars by Camille Paglia, start through Chapter 7

Week 18, Sunday, May 3, 2026: Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars by Camille Paglia, Chapters 7-14

Week 19, Sunday, May 10, 2026: Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars by Camille Paglia, Chapters 15-21

Week 20, Sunday, May 17, 2026: Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars by Camille Paglia, Chapter 22 through end

Week 21, Sunday, May 24, 2026: Art in America 1945-1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism by Jed Perl (editor), pp. 403-447

Week 22, Sunday, May 31, 2026: Art in America 1945-1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism by Jed Perl (editor), pp. 448-485

Week 23, Sunday, June 7, 2026: The Modersohn-Becker/Rilke Correspondence by Rainer Stamm (editor), start through p. 40

Week 24, Sunday, June 14, 2026: The Modersohn-Becker/Rilke Correspondence by Rainer Stamm (editor), pp. 41-80

Week 25, Sunday, June 21, 2026: The Modersohn-Becker/Rilke Correspondence by Rainer Stamm (editor), p. 81 through end

Week 26, Sunday, June 28, 2026: Art in America 1945-1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism by Jed Perl (editor), pp. 486-521

Week 27, Sunday, July 5, 2026: Art in America 1945-1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism by Jed Perl (editor), pp. 522-563

Week 28, Sunday, July 12, 2026: Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino, Part 1: Mr. Palomar's Vacation

Week 29, Sunday, July 19, 2026: Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino, Part 2: Mr. Palomar in the City

Week 30, Sunday, July 26, 2026: Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino, Part 3: The Silences of Mr. Palomar

Week 31, Sunday, August 2, 2026: Art in America 1945-1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism by Jed Perl (editor), pp. 564-607

Week 32, Sunday, August 9, 2026: Art in America 1945-1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism by Jed Perl (editor), pp. 608-642

Week 33, Sunday, August 16, 2026: Clement Greenberg: Late Writings by Robert C. Morgan (editor), Part I

Week 34, Sunday, August 23, 2026: Clement Greenberg: Late Writings by Robert C. Morgan (editor), Part II

Week 35, Sunday, August 30, 2026: Clement Greenberg: Late Writings by Robert C. Morgan (editor), Part III

Week 36, Sunday, September 6, 2026: Clement Greenberg: Late Writings by Robert C. Morgan (editor), Part IV

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] [p. 46 through end]

Working Space by Frank Stella [Caravaggio] [Conclusion]

Art in America 1945-1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism by Jed Perl (editor) [start through p. 37] [pp. 38-81] [pp. 82-124] [pp. 125-168]

What Is Art? (Aylmer Maude translation) by Leo Tolstoy [start through Chapter 5] [Chapters 6-10] [Chapters 11-20]

Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature by Alva Noë [start through p. 48] [final]

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce [Chapter 1] [Chapter 2 and final]

Art in America 1945-1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism by Jed Perl (editor) [pp. 169-205] [pp. 206-244]

The Pile

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

Reactionary Modernism by Jonathan Bowden

The Use and Abuse of Art by Jacques Barzun

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

On Painting: Courses, March-June 1981 by Gilles Deleuze

Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art by Jacques Rancière