grad school reading
May. 25th, 2024 02:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sido_rloHi everyone,
It's been a while: two whole years. I completed my master's degree in art history since my last post. I have soooooo much to say about the whole experience but I'll start here for now: I loved it. I can't remember the last time I grew into confidence so fully. It was stressful and life, as always, complicated things every single day, but I'm proud of myself.
I want to come back to dreamwidth to keep some few casual records and keep my brain going. This is just going to be a list of some of my favorite texts from school over the past couple years, maybe with a little commentary. If anyone has read these, or can recommended related work, I would love to talk about them :) If anything it will just be a little overview of some of what I learned.
- Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (classic, I find myself needing to refer to this all the time)
- Uberto Eco, The Open Work (thought-provoking illustration of the conceptual)
- Michael Ann Holly, Past Looking: Historical Imagination and the Rhetoric of the Image
- Trinh T. Minh-Ha, When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender, and Cultural Politics
- Eric Tang, "The Gulf Unites Us: The Vietnamese Americans of Black New Orleans East"
- Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life (I presented on the above three under the theme of "racialization" and it changed my life)
- Joan Nestle, Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader
- Karla Jay, Lesbian Erotics
- Sarah Ahmed, "Happy Objects"
- Ian Hodder, "Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things" (an absolutely necessary reader on material culture)
- George Kubler, The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things
- Hito Steyerl, "In Defense of the Poor Image" and "Duty-Free Art" (I love Steyerl)
- Kim Brandt, Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan
- Nam Hwasook, Women in the Sky: Gender and Labor in the Making of Modern Korea
- Park Mi, “Organizing Dissent against Authoritarianism: The South Korean Student Movement in the 1980s”
- Lee Namhee, The Making of Minjung: Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea
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Date: 2024-05-29 01:01 am (UTC)