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| Barbara Guest (Text) and June Felter (Illustration). From Musicalities. The text reads "patient exercise of drawing a visible number / chromatically the body unfolds / a formal delicacy" |
EVENT: Salon on Barbara Guest @ CUNY Grad Center, 3/23, 1:00PM
Barbara Guest (1920–2006) was a poet and a member of an informal but highly influential group of writers known as the New York School of poets. Influenced by modern art, especially surrealism and abstract expressionism, she also wrote prose, which was eventually collected in Forces of the Imagination: Writing on Writing and includes an essay on her friend Joan Mitchell (1925–1992), whose painting she promoted. Along with Lee Krasner, Jane Freilicher, Grace Hartigan, and Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell was one of the few female painters associated with abstract expressionism to gain critical and public acclaim. This salon will focus on the ways these two professional artists navigated the cold war climate of chauvinism and repression.
Date: March 23rd
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: The James Gallery @ The CUNY Grad Center, 365 5th Ave (MAP)
Sorry for the short notice, but I just found out about this salon, which is another great opportunity (another that we've been afforded by chance this semester) to extend and augment our class' conversation.
For this opportunity -- much like opportunity #2 -- attend the salon, taking notes and transcribing quotes of interest. Afterward, write a 3-5 page essay (double spaced, times new roman font) on a central theme from the salon (for instance: How and in what way did these two artists find methods and perform acts that projected their identity through -- like a lit filament struggles to pierce the particularly oblique, outer glass of its bulb -- or stood justly opposed to the atmosphere of chauvinism and repression that constituted social normality during the Cold War era?), citing specific examples from the salon, the materials available on Blackboard and in the course pack, and, if need be, outside resources.
Due: 4/1
Date: March 23rd
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: The James Gallery @ The CUNY Grad Center, 365 5th Ave (MAP)
Sorry for the short notice, but I just found out about this salon, which is another great opportunity (another that we've been afforded by chance this semester) to extend and augment our class' conversation.
For this opportunity -- much like opportunity #2 -- attend the salon, taking notes and transcribing quotes of interest. Afterward, write a 3-5 page essay (double spaced, times new roman font) on a central theme from the salon (for instance: How and in what way did these two artists find methods and perform acts that projected their identity through -- like a lit filament struggles to pierce the particularly oblique, outer glass of its bulb -- or stood justly opposed to the atmosphere of chauvinism and repression that constituted social normality during the Cold War era?), citing specific examples from the salon, the materials available on Blackboard and in the course pack, and, if need be, outside resources.
Due: 4/1
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