Library: HUM 1160: Music and Art Since 1945: Conversations with Artists

Memoirs and Interviews

POPism by Andy Warhol; Pat Hackett; Andy Warhol
Call Number: 700.92 W275pop
ISBN: 9780156031110
Publication Date: 2006
Lively first-person narrative in which Andy Warhol tells of his work leading up to Pop, plus the heyday of the Pop years.
Francis Bacon : Studies for a Portrait by Michael Peppiatt
Publication Date: 2008
Peppiatt, having already written Bacon's biography (Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma), now submits a collection of essays and interviews spanning his career of writing on the artist (From Amazon.com).
Conversing with Cage by Richard Kostelanetz
Publication Date: 2003
Conversing with Cage draws on over 150 interviews with John Cage conducted over four decades to draw a full picture of his life and art (From Amazon.com).
Dialogues with Boulez by Rocco Di Pietro
Publication Date: 2001
Mr. Boulez reveals delightful ideas and insights on composition and imagination, listening and teaching, and muses on the nature of youth, communication, and fame (From Amazon.com).
Camera Lucida : Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes
Publication Date: 1981
This personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to the subject of photography (From Amazon.com).
Francis Poulenc: Articles and Interviews by Nicolas Southon; Roger Nichols (Translator)
ISBN: 9781409466239
Publication Date: 2014
This volume comprises selected articles from Francis Poulenc: J’écris ce qui me chante (Fayard, 2011) edited by Nicholas Southon. Many of these articles and interviews have not been available in English before and Roger Nichols's translation, capturing the very essence of Poulenc’s lively writing style, makes more widely accessible this significant contribution to Poulenc scholarship.

Visionaries: Maya Lin

[Artist Maya Lin working on a pin-river, as part of her Systematic Landscapes installation.]

Maya Lin's work made headlines when it was revealed that she was to be the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The outraged response to Lin's being chosen as the designer was layered with overt sexism and racism, and Lin was forced to defend her design before the U.S. Congress. The Memorial is now considered one of the most profoundingly moving sculptures of its type, and Lin has gone on to create a wide variety of works that examine the interplay between human and landscape.

From the Internet

In addition to the embedded videos below, Cindy Sherman's groundbreaking video, "Nobody's Here But Me," can be viewed directly on YouTube due to age-restricted content.

Documentaries

Touch the Sound by Evelyn Glennie, Thomas Riedelsheimer
ISBN: 0767087798
Publication Date: 2006
Award-winning percussionist Evelyn Glennie began losing her hearing as a child, and describes herself as "profoundly deaf." She means she perceives a very low level of sound, and uses her body as a "resounding chamber" through which she experiences her work.
John Cage: From Zero by Frank Scheffer & Andrew Culver
Publication Date: 2004
This program provides a unique opportunity to see the late composer, John Cage, discuss favorite subjects such as harmony, chance, and the purpose of music. Cage recounts biographical anecdotes and describes the influence of Marcel Duchamp, Finnegan's Wake, and Zen Buddhism on his compositions.
La Liturgie de Cristal
Publication Date: 2007
Biographical portrait of twentieth century French composer, Olivier Messiaen and his music. Features interviews with Messiaen filmed between 1967 and 1987, and excerpts of various musical performances of his works. In French with optional subtitles in English and German
Rivers and Tides by Andy Goldsworthy, Thomas Riedelsheimer
ISBN: 9780767091831
Publication Date: 2006
From his long-winding rock walls and icicle sculptures to his interlocking leaf chains and multi-colored pools of flowers. Goldsworthy's painstakingly intricate masterpieces are made entirely of materials found in nature--which threatens, and often succeeds in destroying, his art, sometimes before it's finished.