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[danuv]

Still creeping my way through the Duchamp bio. Yup, still. I seem to have picked up some steam though and should be done just in time for Women in Dada: Essays on Sex, Gender, and Identity to arrive. Then I'll have to go back and read the more serious Duchamp artsy book.

I am also starting the process of getting myself into school in 2005 when Isadora starts kindergarten. I'm going to take very slow but definite steps in that direction and avoid getting too emotional in any way about it. My concern is that I'm going to let my fear overtake me and end up not going and I worry that if I don't go then I never will, I am 30 after all. It's something I really want to do... have to do, but it is so difficult for me. My self confidence is practically non existent and what I do have is very easily crushed, but I've coddled my Problem long enough. Time to kick its ass and move along with my life.

Over the weekend I moved all of my bookshelves into the front bedroom. I've got ideas about what I want to do with that room now. Excitement! now I just need money. Tra la la. It is going to become my reading room (well of course). I want to get a nicer futon to go in there (it has to remain functional as a third bedroom), a rug, some curtains to replace the ugly ugly mini blinds we have up now, and I want to fill it up with bits of the things I am interested in. We lived in such a horrible house for so long that I never bought things to go on walls or to sit on shelves. Anything like that I have now was bought for me by my mother in law and would be better suited for a 14 year old girls room. So now we're in this house with seriously high ceilings (and walls to match, imagine that!) and fireplaces with mantles in every room and me with no decorative sense at all.

I am thinking about taking a trip to Philadelphia on my own. The museum there has a large number of Duchamp's pieces including The Large Glass (or Bride Stripped Bare...) and I'd really really like to see them. One small step for normal girls, one giant leap for strange birds.

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[danuv.livejournal.com]

That's a bit of a problem right now. I'm not really sure. I'm probably going to start off with Art History and see how that fits. Thing is I'm more interested in the people than in what they've done, if that makes sense. Also I'm really interested in the way that artists feed off each other (I guess that'd be the way to put it). So I'm not really looking to study like say oh... Cubist painters or Minimalist composers, I want to learn about all of them and the way their lives wove together, the dancers, composers, painters, sculptors... so on and so forth. I do realize of course that this really isn't practical or whatnot and that doesn't lead to a job but I guess I'm not really looking to go to school to make me employable. I want to learn. I just don't know exactly what. :)

[macaholic.livejournal.com]

Maybe history or philosophy combined with a minor (or maybe a double major) in art..or something like that....of course, to get the full benefit of that, you will need to go to grad school and then end up teaching...sounds cool to me.

What you mention is kind of what I expected you to say.