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Diet/lifestyle change going fairly well despite being too broke to buy fun foods. I'm having a lot less trouble with it than I thought I would... as long as I'm home and not out and about. The mother in law took us to Eats this weekend and instead of getting the alfredo tortellini that I love I got turkey meatloaf and veggies. It was heinous. Should have gone with the jerk chicken and peeled the skin off.
I've been trying to read Painting Gender, Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics lately and it's like beating my head on a wall. I think the problem is twofold. One: I haven't read any 'academic' books in a good long while and two: I'm not nearly as familiar with Stieglitz and his cohorts as I think one is expected to be before reading this. Also not helping is the fact that having a two year old running amok seems to force me to read in 30 second spurts. Anyway, it's discouraging. I guess I need to locate more general books on A. Stieglitz's group (which included Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Charles Demuth, and Thomas Hart Benton) and knock that out before attacking this one. It's also referencing characters from early modernism that I remember reading about in some of my other books (like Jane Heap and Margret Anderson) but I don't remember enough about them to have a full understanding of their place in relation to the New York art scene of that period.
I feel like the brain has gone to mush in recent years. Maybe if I went through my books and pulled out the ones I know deal with the early modern art scene in New York I could get enough information out of them without having to wait for funds to buy new books. But but but I want to read some more about Stieglitz. Blah.
I've been trying to read Painting Gender, Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics lately and it's like beating my head on a wall. I think the problem is twofold. One: I haven't read any 'academic' books in a good long while and two: I'm not nearly as familiar with Stieglitz and his cohorts as I think one is expected to be before reading this. Also not helping is the fact that having a two year old running amok seems to force me to read in 30 second spurts. Anyway, it's discouraging. I guess I need to locate more general books on A. Stieglitz's group (which included Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Charles Demuth, and Thomas Hart Benton) and knock that out before attacking this one. It's also referencing characters from early modernism that I remember reading about in some of my other books (like Jane Heap and Margret Anderson) but I don't remember enough about them to have a full understanding of their place in relation to the New York art scene of that period.
I feel like the brain has gone to mush in recent years. Maybe if I went through my books and pulled out the ones I know deal with the early modern art scene in New York I could get enough information out of them without having to wait for funds to buy new books. But but but I want to read some more about Stieglitz. Blah.