BOOKLIST 01 - starting the project
'The self is a text - it has to be
deciphered. The self is a project, something to be built.' Susan
Sontag, Under the Sign of Saturn, Vintage New York, 1978
'In some Eastern European countries
it is customary to observe a moment of silence and stillness before
departing on a major journey.' Brian Alterio in Steele-Perkins beneath.
Each indicative section of references
presupposes a cross-cultural set of references, including photography,
painting, design, film and the larger societal context.
1. the melancholic portrait 1830 -2001
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1.1 the painter Van Gogh, Beckman, de
Chirico; photography see
Walker Evans and
1.2 the Romantic Outcast - the Byronic
ideal, the Revolutionary portrait, J.L.David, Baron Gros,
1.3 the Observer Observed - the Voyeur,
Reportage.
1.4 the Superman - the Napoleonic Puppetmaster
- Nietzsche and the Fascist Presence - images of the Lonely Leader.
J.Lawrence, P.Brady, Haunter of
Ruins, The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin, Little, Brown
and Co., Boston NY 1997, melancholy and remembrance in New Orleans.
Harvey Benge, Not here Not there,
Dewi Lewis Publishing, Stockport 1998 the alienated individual in
the city.
Robert A. Sobieszek, the camera
i, photographic self portraits from the collection of Audrey and Sydney
Irmas, Los Angeles County Museum, Abrams, New York, 1994/5 - Jasper
Johns sees the self as watcher and spy - the need to reconcile.
Lingwood (ed) Staging the Self,
Self Portrait Photography 1840 - 1980, National Portrait Gallery
London 1986.
Erika Billeter (ed) Self Portrait
in the Age of Photography, Photographers Reflecting their own Image,
Musee Cantonal des beaux Arts, Lausannem 1986
Chris Steele-Perkins (ed) about
70 photographs, Arts Council of Great Britain London 1980.
W.Chadwick (ed) MIRROR IMAGES Women,
Surrealism and Self-Representation, MIT Cambridge Mass., 1998.
2. The Symbolic Landscape
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2.1 the Moral Landscape - Breughel, Caspar
David Friedrich.
2.2 the Twin Paths - the Popular Print,
Samuel Palmer.
2.3 Metaphor and Reality in the Landscape
- Photography and Painting/Prints
Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory,
Ronald Paulson, Emblem and Expression,
John Szarkowski, American Landscapes
Photographs from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New
York, New York 1981.
Robert del Tredici, At Work in the
Fields of the Bomb, Harrap London 1987 the inhabitants of landscapes
polluted by the Atom Bomb tests.
Ruth DeJauregui, Ghost Towns,
Brompton London 1988.
James Baker Hall, Ralph Eugene Meatyard,
Aperture, New York 1974.
3. Melancholia
E.P.Vicari, The View from MinervaÕs
Tower, Learning and Imagination in Robert BurtonÕs The Anatomie of
Melancholy, Univ of Toronto Press Toronto 1989
Guinn Batten, The Orphaned Imagination
Melancholy and Commodity Culture in English Romanticism, Duke
Univ.Press Durham 1998 ¥ Wolf Lelpenies, Melancholy and Society, Harvard
University Press, Cambridge and London 1992. trans Gaines and Jones.
Robert BurtonÕs The Anatomie of
Melancholy, 1621.
4. Theme One - Exile - the View of
Home from Afar -
the reconstruction of the Past - the lands of childhood
4.1 Arshile Gorky and Armenia -
4.2 The Photographic Recording of Lost
Lands - Koudelka, images of the Ghetto
4.3 Walker Evans and Disappearing America
4.4 James Joyce from Ireland to Trieste
Carole Kismaric, FORCED OUT The
Agony of the Refugee in our Times, with a commentary by William
Shawcross, Human Rights watch (with W.Morrow, Penguin, Random and
Norton, Penguin London 1988
Jung Chang, Wild Swans, Harper
Collins London 1991
Nouritza Marossian, Black Angel,
A Life of Arshile Gorky, Chatto and Windus London 1998
Armor and Wright, Manzanar, commentary
by John Hersey, , photographs of concentration camps in America for
people of Japanese origins by Ansel Adams, Secker and Warburg, London
1989
Raghubir Singh, Photographs India
& Britain, National Museum of Photography Bradforsd, 1986
John Simpson (ed) The Oxford Book
of Exile, OUP Oxford 1995 (sections - Driven Forth: Falling from
Power; Getting Out; The Exile Community;Exiled in their own Country;
The Experience of Exile; The End of Exile).
V.Nabokov, Speak Memory, (autobiography
- childhood in pre-revolutionary Russia)
Patrick Hutton, History as an art
of memory, University of Vermont, Hanover, London 1993
Willard Potts, James Joyce, Portraits
of the Artist in Exile, Wolfhound Press, University of Washington,
1979
Theme Two - England in
China - the presence of English culture in Chinese culture.
John MacKenzie, Orientalism History,
theory and the arts,Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1995
Edward Said, Orientalism, Western
Conception of the Orient, Penguin London 1978
Ching and Oxtoby, Discovering China,
European Interpretations in the Enlightenment, University of Rochester
Press, Rochester 1992
W.J.F.Jenner, CHINA a photohistory
1937 -1987, Thames & Hudson, London 1988
Susan Legouix, William Alexander,
Image of China, Jupiter,London 1980
Michael Jacobs, The Painted Voyage,
Art Travel and Exploration 1564 - 1875 British Museum Press London
1995 .
Theme Three - China in England - the
presence of Chinese culture in English culture
The Silent Traveller series,by
Chiang Yee e.g. The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh, Methuen London
1948 (see also Chiang Yee, The Chinese Eye).
Dams and Zega, Pleasure Pavilions
and Follies in the Gardens of the Ancien Regime, Flammarion New
York, 1995 (the Chinese Tent and Bridge at Bagatelle; Chinese Pavilion
at Saint-James; Chinese Pavilion and Pagoda at Cassan).
Jellicoe, Jellicoe, Goode and Lancaster,
The Oxford Companion to Gardens, OUP Oxford 1991, see Chinoiserie
¥ John Nash, Views of the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, Pavilion Books,
London 1992
Ray Desmond, The History of the
Royal Botanic Garden at Kew, Harvill/Kew London 1995, see Chaopter
4, Sir William Chambers and the Chinese Pagoda.
Zhaoming Qian, Orientalism and Modernism,
The Legacy of China in Pound and Williams, Duke University Pres,
Durham and London 1995.
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