OBJECT RELATIONS — SYLLABUS JARRETT EARNEST Jarrett@bhqfu.org SUNDAYS 3-5pm, FALL 2014 34 Ave. A. 3rd fl. NY, NY "There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists." — E.H.Gombrich, THE STORY OF ART (1950) "Let us suppose that the idea of art can be expanded to embrace the whole range of man-made things, including all tools and writing in addition to the useless, beautiful, and poetic things of the world." —George Kubler, THE SHAPE OF TIME (1962) The art we make and the art we like is connected to the ways we live, the things we read and the adventures we have. However, the nature of these relationships and how they produce art is anything but straightforward—closer to gravitational orbits than causal chains. The focus of this class is to think and talk critically about such interconnections via weekly conversations with a visiting artist who assigns a text of their choosing. Participants should be interested in broader interdisciplinary issues of art and culture as discussions will span Kubler's "tools, writing, and the useless, beautiful, poetic things of the world." This is a seminar and everyone is asked to commit to reading and attending each week of the entire ten-week course. We meet Sunday afternoons October—December. Recordings of last term's Object Lessons are available online for interested students, which will give you a sense of what to expect. Similarly, all sessions of this term will be recorded and available online. All readings will be available as PDFs via the class site/tumblr, however you may want to buy physical copies. BOOKS USED IN OBJECT RELATIONS: Bryant, Edwin. THE YOGA SUTRAS OF PATANJALI: A NEW EDITION, TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY (North Point Press, 2009).*(specifically this edition) Koestenbaum, Wayne. JACKIE UNDER MY SKIN: INTERPRETING AN ICON (Picador, 2009). Pallasmaa, Juhani, THE EYES OF THE SKIN: ARCHITECTURE AND THE SENSES (Wiley, 1996). Sontag, Susan. REGARDING THE PAIN OF OTHERS (Picador, 2004). Steiner, Rudolph. BEES WITH AN AFTERWORD ON THE ART OF JOSEPH BEUYS (Rudolph Steiner Press, 1998). Taussig, Michael. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (University of Chicago Press, 2012). Waldman, Anne. GOSSAMURMUR (Penguin, 2013). Waldman, Anne and Laura Wright, eds. CROSS WORLDS: TRANSCULTURAL POETICS (Coffee House press 2014).

Week 1 — September 14: INTRODUCTION Object: THE SHAPE OF TIME (1962) George Kubler Week 2 — October 19: FRANCESCO CLEMENTE Object: excerpt from PANTANJALI YOGA SUTRA Week 3 — October 26: IRA SACHS Object: WORD IS OUT: STORIES OF SOME OF OUR LIVES (1977) Week 4 — November 2: ANNA BETBEZE Object: EYES OF THE SKIN (1996) Juhani Pallasmaa Week 5 — November 9: MICHAEL TAUSSIG Object: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (2012) Michael Taussig & PDF postscript Week 6 — November 16: ANNE WALDMAN Object: CROSS WORLDS (2014) eds. Waldman and Wright & GOSSAMURMUR (2013) Anne Waldman Week 7 — November 23: COCO FUSCO Object: "L'1%, C'EST MOI" (2011) Andrea Fraser & "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? Thoughts about the Donnelle Woolford Debate" Coco Fusco Week 8 — November 30: ANN McCOY Object: BEES (1923) Rudolph Steiner Week 9 — December 7: JIM DRAIN Object: JACKIE UNDER MY SKIN (1995) Wayne Koestenbaum & REGARDING THE PAIN OF OTHERS (2003) Susan Sontag Week 10 — December 14: JACOLBY SATTERWHITE Object: VESPERTINE LIVE AT THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE (2002) Bjork