Janet Writes

Woman Reading, Carl Vilhelm Holsoe

The following are some books on art gathering dust on my bookshelf, which I do intend to read (honest):

-Art in Theory: 1815-1900 An Anthology of Changing Ideas, Ed. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood with Jason Gaiger (This is a rather large tome which I think makes me look smarter merely by having it on my bookshelf; however, I’m so afeared of it I mince around it and throw it furtive glances so as not to provoke it.)

-Renoir, My Father, by Jean Renoir (Yes, that’s Jean Renoir, the great French film director; I’m rather looking forward to this one; this book sits neatly among its NYRB brethren, and once I have enough of them I shall arrange them obsessive-compulsively in a ROYGBIV manner.)

-Modern Artists on Art, Ed. Robert L. Herbert

-Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists, by Margot and Rudolf Wittkower (Another NYRB Classic.)

-The Moon and Sixpence, by W. Somerset Maugham (A short novel based on the life of Paul Gauguin; a Penguin Classic, hurray, found in Chapters’ discount section for sixpence… Okay, not for sixpence, but for cheap.)

-On Painting, by Leon Battista Alberti (Another discounted Penguin Classic find, yippee!)

 Thoughts and ramblings on each to come…