Tag: art history

• Covers & Citations Mastermind, reveal yourself!! [Please]

  I have no idea the mastermind behind the Covers & Citations blog but it’s pretty, well, as the young kids say (okay, young kids in the 1980s), RAD! I discovered it looking for Eve Babitz and Marcel Duchamp’s famous chess match photograph and found a bevy of art re-makes/mixes/interpretations. You get the idea. I’m sure there […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  August 28, 2011

  Art, Art and Technology

  art collection, art history, catalogue, postaday2011

• I need this book

  Dorothy R. Santos

  August 21, 2011

  Art History, Art Writing and Criticism, Culture Criticism, Philosophy, Theory

  art history, art literature, contemporary art, critical theory, philosophy, postaday2011, theory

• Ethnography of the Art World

  Social history is widely understood, but what is ethnography? It is a genre of researching and writing with its roots in anthropology. Its main investigative method is “participant observation” – a cluster of qualitative modes, which include firsthand experience of the environment, careful visual observation, attentive listening, casual on-the-hoof interviewing as well as formal in-depth […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  June 7, 2011

  Art Writing and Criticism

  art history, art world, ethnography, postaday2011, sarah thornton, social history

• Boom for Real = Jean-Michel Basquiat

  Jean-Michel Basquiat, Fallen Angel, 1981 Genius Child This is a song for the genius child. Sing it softly, for the song is wild. Sing it softly as ever you can – Lest the song get out of hand. Nobody loves a genius child. Can you love an eagle, Tame or wild? Can you love an […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  April 4, 2011

  Art, Visual Arts

  art history, contemporary art, drawing, graffiti art, jean-michel basquiat, New York, painting, postaday2011, the radiant child, visionary

• Art Crush: Michael Kimmelman

  Some time last week, I watched the documentary, My Kid Could Paint That by filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev. The documentary is definitely worth watching being that it forces the viewer to make up their own mind about the Modern Art movement. Pick it up and please feel free to tell me what you think. As the title of today’s posts states, […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  March 29, 2011

  Art, Art Writing and Criticism

  amir bar-lev, art criticism, art history, art writing, michael kimmelman, my kid could paint that, postaday2011

• Art Movements as a Family Tree

  Nesbit studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute and is currently obtaining his MFA in Painting at Yale University.

  Dorothy R. Santos

  March 26, 2011

  Abstract Expressionism, Art, Art Influences, Art Theory and Movements, Bauhaus, Color Field, Cubism, Dada, Futurism, Modern Period, Visual Arts

  art history, art movements family tree, evan nesbit, modern and contemporary art, postaday2011