<p>Is it against the CC rules to start a book thread within this forum? That would create a place for book discussion (if anyone is interested) without having to search back thru other threads.</p>
<p>Anyway, a nice easy read for Christmas is "Wishin' and Hopin' : A Christmas Story" by Wally Lamb (I love ANYTHING by him) especially for those who went to Catholic school. I have a copy and I'd be willing to send it to whoever would like it, first post, first served.</p>
<p>good idea!
but charge them shipping handling half way
and
vist Cooper thread still.</p>
<p>What about recommendations for art books for students (or for ignorant parents)? Clueless here!</p>
<p>you go fammom!!!
I took out from the library this cute small book “Andy Warhol and the can that sold the world” to read in the subway beccause it is small and light to carry but hell no.
the author is cynic wordy critics with his own grudges, tells more about what happend in 50s 60s than about Warhol’s mom I want to hear more about.
If you are a art scholar (I’m the fake one) you should know all these already but it seems a good crash course on, I guess how art world in NY is born and art gone Pop! goes the weasel.
<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Andy-Warhol-that-Sold-World/dp/0465002331/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1291393095&sr=1-1-spell[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/Andy-Warhol-that-Sold-World/dp/0465002331/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1291393095&sr=1-1-spell</a></p>
<p>my kid still raves about " The ways of seeing" by John Berger, but I susepct because it is a safe thing to say in any essay for any occasion.
<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Ways-Seeing-Based-BBC-Television/dp/0140135154/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1291392976&sr=1-1[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/Ways-Seeing-Based-BBC-Television/dp/0140135154/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1291392976&sr=1-1</a></p>
<p>For me, the easiest way to start was searching barnes and noble, amazon, or even google for my son’s favorite artists. Some of them, like John Singer Sargent and Lucian Freud, have quite a few art books on their work. Other times, it takes searching… I just finished searching high and low in used book stores for a book on Vincent Desiderio.</p>
<p>OK sounds like good advice so I google jenny saville…surprisingly many hits and some graphics that really, really shouldn’t come up on a government computer…I need to get back to work!</p>
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<p>Why, fammom, I am an ignorant parent! Here are some books and movies that I enjoyed this year while getting up to speed on my daughter’s new life:</p>
<p>[Why</a> Art Cannot Be Taught](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Why-Art-Cannot-Be-Taught/dp/0252069501][b]Why”>http://www.amazon.com/Why-Art-Cannot-Be-Taught/dp/0252069501), by James Elkins. Great stuff in here about how what is considered essential to art education changes over time and place. I had never seen any of the “Art School Confidential” cartoons before, so those were entertaining as well.</p>
<p>[Seven</a> Days in the Art World](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Days-World-Sarah-Thornton/dp/039333712X/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1291402943&sr=1-8][b]Seven”>http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Days-World-Sarah-Thornton/dp/039333712X/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1291402943&sr=1-8), by Sarah Thornton. The chapter on art school critiques was very interesting.</p>
<p>[Basquiat:</a> A Quick Killing in Art](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Basquiat-Quick-Killing-Art-Revised/dp/0143035126/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1291403343&sr=1-4][b]Basquiat:”>http://www.amazon.com/Basquiat-Quick-Killing-Art-Revised/dp/0143035126/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1291403343&sr=1-4). Loved this book! A sad, horrifying, entertaining, easy to read biography.</p>
<p>[True</a> Colors: The Real Life of the Art World](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/True-Colors-Real-Life-World/dp/0871137259/ref=pd_sim_b_26][b]True”>http://www.amazon.com/True-Colors-Real-Life-World/dp/0871137259/ref=pd_sim_b_26), by Anthony Haden-Guest. I started here because I enjoyed The Last Party years ago, and it was a nice and dishy introduction to a lot of new (to me!) names.</p>
<p>[How</a> Art Made the World](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/How-Made-World-Nigel-Spivey/dp/B000FFJYCK/ref=sr_1_3?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1291403235&sr=1-3][b]How”>http://www.amazon.com/How-Made-World-Nigel-Spivey/dp/B000FFJYCK/ref=sr_1_3?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1291403235&sr=1-3). BBC documentary. Just ok, IMHO. The first episode was the best. Probably should rewatch it.</p>
<p>[Who</a> the #$&% is Jackson Pollock?](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Who-Jackson-Pollock-Documentary/dp/B000NVI0EY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1291402640&sr=1-1][b]Who”>http://www.amazon.com/Who-Jackson-Pollock-Documentary/dp/B000NVI0EY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1291402640&sr=1-1). Foul mouthed trucker buys what appears to be a crappy Jackson Pollock at a thrift store and tries to authenticate it. Several phrases from the movie have entered into my family’s daily vocabulary, like “Dead on arrival. <turns head=”“> Dead on arrival!”</turns></p>
<p>I think there may have been others. The last six months has been a blur. :)</p>
<p>WOW, really good thread.
I am a IT developer, I mean I write code to build web site as my job. I didn’t read novel, art except information about art school, Now I need to catch up so that I can talk better to you guys and my D.
I have so much to catch up …</p>
<p>I went back to B&N to check few things and it turned out to be “celebrity night”
There this coffee table book piled hi in the store’s hotspot
<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/My-Passion-Design-Barbra-Streisand/dp/0670022136/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1291649998&sr=1-1[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/My-Passion-Design-Barbra-Streisand/dp/0670022136/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1291649998&sr=1-1</a>
gawk! oh yuck! have to check it out!!!
it is filled with photos of Barbra’s dream house in three parts plus chicken house and millhouse.
the “barn” has barn red front and white black Nantucket style in back, two face in one house. she even got koi fish white and black to go with and little boat she rides with her who that guy? I should know, he gave her the boat.
The excess!!! basement mini mall of antique doll shoppe, sweet shoppe, the four poster bed specially made in England with RL fabric canopy that costed more than the bed itself, the best part was that, she doesn’t even sleep there, she got main house in the property that she actually “live”
Her concern about environment, whatnot for some of the book’s profit goes to charity. bless her with man made “natural” stream with waterfalls and mill I am sure powered by fossil fuels galore.
It was so hideous I can not stop looking at it, it was almost closing time when I went on to Steve Martin’s “novel”
<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Object-Beauty-Novel-Steve-Martin/dp/0446573647/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1291650516&sr=1-1-spell[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/Object-Beauty-Novel-Steve-Martin/dp/0446573647/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1291650516&sr=1-1-spell</a>
I hear he is some collector and an art lover. nice try but almost itchy squirmy writing style.
yet, the main character is from Stockbridge ( Norman Rockwell, Chester who made the Lincoln) and her love interest (I suppose) is granddaughter of the model for Maxfield Parrish. awww so tacky in the way I love. what’s gonna happen? the guy write art reviews, the girl works for Sotheby’s. fun fun fun</p>
<p>PS
angrydad, how do you link Amazonbooks so simple? where and how do you copy paste them?</p>
<p>Here’s how, B&D!</p>
<p>[ url=<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/”>http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/</a> ][ b ]The Choice[ /b ][ /url ]</p>
<p>Just take out the spaces at the beginning and end of the bracketed parts, and it will look like this:</p>
<p>[The</a> Choice](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/][b]The”>http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/)</p>
<p>test test test
My-Passion-Design-Barbra-Streisand</p>
<p>nah didn’t do. told you Ima tech moron
Thanks anyway</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/visual-arts-film-majors/989407-reading-recommendations-art-students.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/visual-arts-film-majors/989407-reading-recommendations-art-students.html</a></p>
<p>Wow. That’s a great list that I missed the first time around. Thanks, Kaelyn.</p>
<p>there this kid from Finland applying Cooper ED and what came to my head was
<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Finn-Family-Moomintroll-Tove-Jansson/dp/0374350310/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1292257854&sr=1-1[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/Finn-Family-Moomintroll-Tove-Jansson/dp/0374350310/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1292257854&sr=1-1</a>
the author is this
<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tove_Jansson[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tove_Jansson</a>
Japanese were nuts over Moomin cartoons. not so much here?<br>
great drawings, cartoon don’t do justice.</p>
<p>About the book: Repeat After Me
in Cooper Union for Graphic Design thread page 14 post 205 switters recommended.
finished the book last weekend. It is an very interesting book, i love it. the author know so much about Chinese culture, tradition…
the story about bury books can be true, since my dad lost his books at that time. mom burned a lot of books so that our family won’t get in trouble. Dad keeps on talking his very very old Chinese dictionary got burned, it is a version from Qing Dynasty, must worth a lot of money by now… mom regret it a lot.
I enjoyed the view from western author’s about Chinese. Most of it is true but a little restrictive. As for Chinatown life. I am not familiar with it. New immigrants didn’t live there and didn’t have much interaction.
I am glad that I can tell all the Chinese Rachel Woskin mentioned in the book and even the movie:Jiu Du.
again this is a very interesting book.</p>
<p>Bears, I have friends who looooove all the moomin books and our library stocks them all. A rare taste, but a good one. That photo of the guy with his little figure reminds me of Hans Beck, the German who designed the playmobil toys. Apparently, plastic was expensive during the early 70’s oil embargo so he made everything really small, and they took off!</p>
<p>some of my favorite parts of the book were where the main character was watching movies with her Chinese friend, I cant remember the Chinese friends name, but I loved how they watched all the movies from my teenage life, Pretty in Pink, etc, and I loved the comments her Chinese friend made. I also really enjoyed the parallels between Chinese family culture and Jewish family culture. We both certainly have a laser focus on our children.</p>
<p>loveblue dear, so is Xian Wang ( I think was the name) YOU?
I laterally heard your voice when I read her dialogues, about social issue, education, love-life (this bit, I am just guessing, no, CC folks, loveblue did not reveal about this department, not that I did not asked, heheheh)
I am buying one copy (clap clap) for a friend abroad with Jewish upbringing wild side youth in the city, now with bi(tri?)lingal child.
Hope Amazon let me ship it, or those hackers are at it in Europe?</p>