Comments on: research report

By: dhreg

dhreg — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:04:38 +0000

My project is to recreate a Georgia O’Keeffe still life reflecting my own unique interpretations.

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/O/okeefe.html

This website features a lot of text from Jack Cowart’s “Georgia O’Keeffe, Art and Letters”, featuring a personal reaction to her art, as well as providing some of her history.

The next site is more of a biography, as well including many of her writings and art pieces.

http://www.georgia-okeeffe.com/biography.html

By: noveed

noveed — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:05:49 +0000

Okay, I thought I’d posted my sources, but I guess it didn’t go through, so I’m trying again.

My project responds to “The God of Small Things” but for the written part I am focusing less on Arundhati Roy and more on the social aspects of the world she grew up in and the location of the book: Kerala. Specifically, I’m looking at Religion, the Caste system, and the role of women.

My first source is an interview with Arundhati Roy, where she talks a bit about life in India.

http://www.the-south-asian.com/Sept2001/Arundhati_Roy-Interview1.htm

The next is a brief first-hand account of a Oregon State University professor’s experience in Kerala, observing the social stability of the region compared to the rest of India.

http://www.cof.orst.edu/cof/extended/sustain/kerala.php

By: noveed

noveed — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:01:39 +0000

For my project, I am responding to “The God of Small Things” by Arundhati Roy–but instead of focusing more on the author, I’m trying to focus more on the world she grew up in which is the same place as the book: Kerala. I’m taking especial focus on the roles of the caste system, religion, and women–three factors that directly relate to my visual response (photographs portraying Baby Kochamma).

One source I’m using is this interview with Arundhati Roy, conducted by a leftist radio commentator named David Barsamian. I’m mainly using this interview to get some of Roy’s own perspective in my written piece:

http://www.the-south-asian.com/Sept2001/Arundhati_Roy-Interview1.htm

Another source I’ve come across is this first-hand account by a professor at Oregon State University on their experience in Kerala, focusing on the self-sustainability of the society there–the high literacy rate and the (at least, compared to the rest of India) ideal living conditions.

http://www.cof.orst.edu/cof/extended/sustain/kerala.php

By: raeapp

raeapp — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:03:53 +0000

My project is in response to the poem Musee des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden.
One useful website is
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/120
from Poets.org by the Academy of American Poets. It provides a biography about Auden, a list of work as well as possible related works and recommendations.
Another site is
http://audensociety.org/index.html
This is a website devoted entirely to Auden. Here, you can find some of his work, criticism and even recordings of his work.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:52:53 +0000

I was delighted to learn that Edward Hopper, the man who painted “House by the Railroad,” also painted a scene called “Nighthawks.” Under normal circumstances this would be unimportant in the greter scheme of my research but this painting, “Nighthawks,” was the first painting to ever make me stop and think (it was when I was in elementary school, I can’t remember quite when). I had never known who had painted that scene until I went searching for information on Hopper.

That aside, I am responding to the colors and themes of Hopper’s House. I mostly looked for biographical information but I came across a lot of stuff about his themes too.

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/H/hopper.html

This link is the one that had some stuff about his style but still had a lot of information about his life.

http://www.mfa.org/hopper/index.html

This link goes to an exhibition page but it still inferred a good deal of information.

By: rkarlik

rkarlik — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:41:10 +0000

For my project, I found that using various interviews with Weschler concerning his life, way of writing, and different books were particularly useful. Here are links to two of the interviews that I found:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/02/AR2006030201538.html

The next is an E-book I found online

AUTHOR: Meredith Tromble
TITLE: A conversation with Lawrence Weschler, author
SOURCE: Artweek 29 no7 Jl/Ag ‘98

By: cgama

cgama — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:32:18 +0000

I am responding to Rilke’s “Archaic Torso of Apollo” for my piece, so there is a lot of information available on the web, but I feel like a good percent of it is sort of dubious, but I think that these are legitamite, from more esteemed sources.

I found this e-book online, but I’m not allowed to post a link to it (technology?) but here is the bibliographical information:

Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition
Cambridge Studies in German
Author: Ryan, Judith.
Publication: Cambridge ; New York Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Product ID: 55529
eBook ISBN: 9780511004049
ISBN: 9780521661737
Subject: Rilke, Rainer Maria,–1875-1926–Criticism and interpretation.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Aesthetics, Modern–20th century.
Language: English

This looks at Rilke’s work through the eyes of Modernism. It will be interesting.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/lifeofapoet.htm

This is a biography of Rilke in a few parts. It’s a more succinct biography, so I’ll be able to conquer it all.

By: talyah

talyah — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:48:00 +0000

For my final project, I am responding to Arundhati Roy’s novel The God of Small Things. There is a decent amount of information about Roy on the web, and here are two links that I found particularly useful:

http://www.chitram.org/mallu/ar.htm
This link provides succinct background information about Roy. It even has a section written by Roy that describes how her novel relates to her childhood. This will be very valuable to understanding what inspired her to highlight the themes she established in her novel.

http://www.salon.com/sept97/00roy2.html
This link is to a website that has an interview with Arundhati Roy. The interviewer asks Roy about her novel, regarding how she exemplifies culture, her influences, her style, and the overall progression of the story. This information will really help to put together the pieces of why and how Roy came to create her novel.

By: connm

connm — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:32:06 +0000

Sorry I accidentally posted twice; after the first one, it didn’t show up so I just wrote another one. But you now have TWICE the amazing information about Brian Doyle!

By: connm

connm — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:15:39 +0000

My piece is in response to Brian Doyle’s essay Joyas Voladoras, the one we read on the first day of class that was about hummingbirds and the capacity of the human heart. I felt particularly drawn to his piece because it addressed the heart as a physical as well as metaphorical entity. Researching Doyle was difficult; although he’s a modest but fairly well-known creative nonfiction author, it’s hard to find biographical information or extensive criticism like you could find with an artist or more famous author. But in any case, I did find two helpful links. Here they are:

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/fourth_genre_explorations_in_nonfiction/v009/9.1madden02.html

http://etude.uoregon.edu/autumn2006/qanda/qanda2.html

The first is a review of many of Doyle’s works, and it addresses Joyas Voladoras specifically (if only briefly) and its connection with a recent novel of Doyle’s, The Wet Engine, in which he writes about the experience of his son’s many heart surgeries and medical issues.

The second is an interview with Doyle, and this was a really unique interview because he goes into great detail about his personal style, his inspiration, his books. I found it interesting to learn that he is an Irish-Catholic, and his faith has been a major source of inspiration for him in his writing. In fact, most of his other collections or essays are spiritual or religious based. The current magazine he is an editor for at Portland, Oregon University, is in a spiritual publication.