RECOMMENDED READING

(currently under development; this is a sample list….)

Art and Art History

* Artenol Magazine

* Parkette

Cooking, Food, and Nutrition

Education, Learning, and Play

* Learning All The Time, by John Holt

Feminism

Fiction

Ideas and Philosophy

Photography

Psychology and Self-Help

* Getting to Yes, by Ury, Fisher, and Patton

* The Red Book, by Carl Jung

* You Can Heal Your Life, by Louise L. Hay

….. From W.A.M.E.R.……

Alyosha the Pot, Leo Tolstoy

One Place After Another, Miwon Kwon

Centuries of Childhood, Philippe Aries

Wet by Mira Schor

Dialogues in Public Art (essay collection) edited by Tom Finkelpearl

Feminism And Censorship; The Current Debate edited by Gail Chester and Julienne Dickey

What Painting Is by James Elkins

Ulysses by James Joyce

As Eve Said to the Serpent by Rebecca Solnit

Walt Whitman poem on compost (part of Leaves of Grass)

Essay from Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge

“The Legacy of Jackson Pollock” essay by Alan Kaprow

On Photography by Susan Sontag

What We Want Is Free; Generosity and Exchange in Recent Art edited by Ted Purves

A Field Guide To Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit

The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit

The Pink Glass Swan by Lucy Lippard

The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs

The Mind of a Mnemonist By A.R. Luria

The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald

Swans’s Way by Marcel Proust

Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The Gift by Lewis Hyde

Stiffed by Susan Faludi

Aristotle on beauty and aesthetics

Plato on beauty and aesthetics

The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard

Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille

The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge

Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

The New Menopausal Years by Susun Weed

Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery by Jeanette Winterson

Walk in the Light, and Twenty-Three Tales by Leo Tolstoy, or some other Tolstoy

From the Domain of Paula.