Showing posts with label Sebald. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sebald. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

trying sebald again

and now retrying to read Vertigo by Sebald because I assigned it to my seminar and can't seem to be involved in it -- Gerhard gave me a copy long ago, and i assigned it to my Anxieties  in Modernist Representations seminar, thinking it must be anxiety-provoking, like the film, but I don't like looking at Kim Novak so didn't resee the film and am now stuck -- this is after reading Dali (amazing rewriting of his original and funnily-misspelled French texts, all neatened up by Gala) and after a mixture of Artaud and  Unica Zurn, and it is fascinating reading these and those on our way to Derek Jarman -- so baroque is all this, so wonderfully thought-provokingly baroque

Bernard came to have tea today, writing about Motherwell, do I have anything else to say about him, ah yes probably but I long to write on Jon Schueler, and will I ever get around to making my wouldbe book about my grandmother the painter into a long essay about my relation to her,as my agent suggests? how, I wonder, would that make it more interesting? But I will of course try...

and the mile-high thesis on Max Ernst I have to read and report on and question the knowledgeable writer of the thesis about in a thesis defensein paris in January.. I see it looming up on the piano...

Monday, September 2, 2013

new semester

after a year sabbatical -- spent mostlly on my Modern Art Cookbook, now appearing on the first of  next month, and I hope very beautiful, as it seems in the proofs - i am restarting my seminars right now. This semester, Anxieties of Modernist Representation, and what a great group of students, from French, Comparative Literature English, and Philosophy... We are plunging in on the Uncanny and going up to Derek Jarman, Chroma and his films such as Blue, meandering through some De Chirico (Hebdomeros) and the written Dali and Escher,  some Sebald and Thomas Bernhard, and so on. Whoof.