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Robert Boyd's Book Report: Kent State
Robert BoydToday I'm discussing Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf. This graphic novel just came out and I recommend it highly, But I slightly resent it because he stopped working on his...
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Robert BoydThis is the latest book report. It's the book published for the Core Program from the 2010/2011 class. I wrote about this group of Core fellow's art show in 2016 here. Here are some links...
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Robert Boyd's Book Report: Meditations in an Emergency
Robert BoydThis book,Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara, was published in 1957. O'Hara was a leader of the so-called New York School, which included such poets as Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery,...
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Robert Boyd's Book Report: I Want You
Robert Boyd This episode of my ongoing series (which will continue at least until I get a new day job) is aboutI Want You, the new book (reprinting old material) by Lisa Hanawalt. It's a collection of...
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Robert Boyd's Book report: Mel Ramos: 50 Years of Pop Art
Robert BoydToday's book report is onMel Ramos: 50 Years of Pop Art. I have written about him in passing once before, after seeing some of his work at an art fair.
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Robert Boyd's Book Report: Alice Neel Painted Truths
Robert BoydToday I review another book that is mostly pictures, Alice Neel: Painted Truths. As far as I can tell, I've only mentioned Alice Neel once before on this blog. But I have written about...
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Robert Boyd's Book Report: The Art of Resistance
Robert BoydThis week I am reporting on The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir by Justus Rosenberg. I really go on at length about it, so I guess, Spoiler Alert!
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Robert Boyd's Book Report: Time of the Magicians
Robert BoydMy book report is about Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy by Wolfram Eilenberger. It's my longest report, and it...
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Robert Boyd's Book Report: Artforum
Robert BoydIt's not a report about the magazine Artforum, but about the book of short stories by César Aira called Artforum. It did prompt me to reflect on Artforum the magazine a little and on the...
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Robert Boyd's Book Report: Museum of Terror: Tomie volume 1
Robert BoydToday I look at a horror manga called Museum of Terror, Vol. 1 by Junji Ito. I also mention his classic book Uzumakias well as Mark Danieleski's horror novel, House of Leaves.
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Robyn O'Neil Reading Stuff
Robert BoydMany of my readers are probably aware of artist Robyn O'Neil. O'Neil is an artist who I think of as a Texas artist, but she's actually from Nebraska and now lives in Washington State. She...
View ArticleRobert Boyd's Book Report: It Has Only Just Begun
Robert BoydThis book, It Has Only Just Begun, is basically a pamphlet published by Printed Matter. It contains a panel discussion held at the Art Book Fair from 2008. The introduction is by A.A....
View ArticleRobert Boyd's Book Report: The American Mainstream
Robert BoydMatt Seneca is one of the hosts of the podcast, Comic Books Are Burning in Hell and has written for The Comics Journal. Unfortunately, The American Mainstream appears to be sold out, but...
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Robert Boyd's Book Report: Yves the Provocateur
Robert Boyd This week I read Yves the Provocateur: Yves Klein and Twentieth-Century Art by Thomas McEvilley. McEvilley was a professor of mine when I was an undergraduate at Rice University, and I've...
View ArticleRobert Boyd's Book Report: Haiku
Robert BoydToday's book report is about Haiku, written by Diane di Prima and illustrated by George Herms. Haiku was published by X Artists' Books, which has it's own interesting story.
View ArticleRobert Boyd's Book Report: Pinko Joe
Robert BoydThis video is about Pinko Joe, by Christopher Sperandio. Sperandio has made guest appearances on this blog on several occasions. He is a professor at Rice University and frequently partners...
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Robert Boyd's Book Report: The Outlaw Bible of American Art
Robert BoydToday I am discussing The Outlaw Bible of American Art, edited by Alan Kaufman. I mention several artists (and books) in my book report, including Forrest Bess, David Wojnarowicz, Sonia...
View ArticleRobert Boyd's Book Report: Grip
Robert BoydToday's book report is about Grip by Lale Westvind. I found out about this book from the podcast Comic Books Are Burning in Hell, where they ranked the then unfinished work as one of the 10...
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Robert Boyd's Book Report: Tears of the Trufflepig
Robert BoydToday I talk about Tears of the Trufflepig and Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas by Fernando A. Flores. I mention Malvern Books, so I want to link to it as well.
View ArticleRobert Boyd's Book Report: The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader
Robert BoydToday I look at The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader by Ruben Bolling. This is a collection of occasional strips that run in his weekly comic strip called Tom the Dancing Bug, which can be read...
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