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Readings

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

John Berger, Ways of Seeing

 

 

 

Gombrich, The Story of Art

 

image from Jacob Riis "How the Other Half Lives", 1890

 

Jacob Riis "How the Other Half Lives"

full text with photographs

http://www.bartleby.com/208/ 

 

 

Van Gogh, "Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear", 1889

 

Van Gogh's Letters (with sketches)

http://vangoghletters.org/vg/with_sketches.html 

 

Picasso, "Self-Portrait",   1906                Matisse, "Self-Portrait", 1906

 

 

Berger on Picasso and Matisse

BergeronPicassoandMatisse(2).pdf

 

 


Magritte, "Le Modele Rouge" 1935

 

Berger on Magritte

Magritte by Berger001.pdf

 

 

 

Duchamp, "Fountain", 1917

 

The Anti-Aesthetic of Dada

 by Robert C. Morgan

http://www.brooklynrail.org/2006/7/art/dada2

 

 

 

 

Aaron Douglas, The Creation", 1927

 

"Inside the Harlem Renaissance"

by Stephen Maine

InsideHR.pdf

 

 

 

Robert Moses in the 1930's

 

"Moses on Gotham"

by Tom McDonough

Moses in Gotham.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

Hudson Yards: Is This The Neighborhood New York Deserves

by Michael Kimmelman

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/14/arts/design/hudson-yards-nyc.html

 

 

 

Introduction to Architecture

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/sac-artappreciation/chapter/oer-1-27/

 

 

 

 

 

 

Definition of Architecture

 

 

Tom Otterness, "Beaver" from the series, "Life Underground", 2001

 

Public Art Reading

excerpts from the New York Times, various authors

NY Times Public Art-1.doc

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