Category Archives: READING

RESEARCH/ READING – ‘Seven Days in the Art World’

Posted on December 28, 2020 by Patricia Farrar

Part 4 RESEARCH/ READING

‘SEVEN DAYS IN THE ART WORLD’  Sarah Thornton

Granta Publications 2012

 

An interesting book!

The synopsis for this book read:

“Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description and, for … Read the rest

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READING: “The Unquiet Landscape”

Posted on June 4, 2020 by Patricia Farrar

READING

“Unquiet Landscape” Christopher Neve

Thames & Hudson 2020

What immediately drew me into this book were a few sentences in the preface: “…this book is about other things rather than falling into the old art-historical trap of attempting to … Read the rest

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RESEARCH: “IVON HITCHENS” Peter Khoroche

Posted on April 24, 2020 by Patricia Farrar

“My pictures are painted to be listened to…” page 81

Notes from ‘Ivon Hitchens’ Peter Khoroche 2007 Lund Humphries

Connection with music

  • …I often use the long shape. A receding movement demands a forward static movement, just as academically one
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RESEARCH: ‘THE SOUNDSCAPE’ R. Murrey Schafer

Posted on April 24, 2020 by Patricia Farrar

RESEARCH

READING:

‘THE SOUNDSCAPE – OUR SONIC ENVIRONMENT AND THE TUNING OF THE WORLD’    R. Murray Schafer 1977 Destiny Books, by arrangement with Alfred Knopf, Inc.

 A fascinating book! I wanted to read it to be able to work more … Read the rest

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