OBJECT RELATIONS SYLLABUS

JARRETT EARNEST
Jarrett@bhqfu.org
SUNDAYS 3-5pm, FALL 2014
34 Ave. A. 3rd . NY, NY

"There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists."
E.H.Gombrich, THE STORY OF ART (1950)
"Let us suppose that the idea of art can be expanded to embrace the whole range of man-
made things, including all tools and writing in addition to the useless, beautiful, and poetic
things of the world." George Kubler, THE SHAPE OF TIME (1962)

The art we make and the art we like is connected to the ways we live, the things we read and
the adventures we have. However, the nature of these relationships and how they produce art
is anything but straightforwardcloser to gravitational orbits than causal chains. The focus of
this class is to think and talk critically about such interconnections via weekly conversations
with a visiting artist who assigns a text of their choosing. Participants should be interested in
broader interdisciplinary issues of art and culture as discussions will span Kubler's "tools,
writing, and the useless, beautiful, poetic things of the world."

This is a seminar and everyone is asked to commit to reading and attending each week of the
entire ten-week course. We meet Sunday afternoons OctoberDecember. Recordings of last
term's Object Lessons are available online for interested students, which will give you a sense
of what to expect. Similarly, all sessions of this term will be recorded and available online.

All readings will be available as PDFs via the class site/tumblr, however you may want to buy
physical copies.

BOOKS USED IN OBJECT RELATIONS:

Bryant, Edwin. THE YOGA SUTRAS OF PATANJALI: A NEW EDITION, TRANSLATION
AND COMMENTARY (North Point Press, 2009).*(specically this edition)
Koestenbaum, Wayne. JACKIE UNDER MY SKIN: INTERPRETING AN ICON (Picador,
2009).
Pallasmaa, Juhani, THE EYES OF THE SKIN: ARCHITECTURE AND THE SENSES (Wiley,
1996).
Sontag, Susan. REGARDING THE PAIN OF OTHERS (Picador, 2004).
Steiner, Rudolph. BEES WITH AN AFTERWORD ON THE ART OF JOSEPH BEUYS (Rudolph
Steiner Press, 1998).
Taussig, Michael. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (University of Chicago Press, 2012).
Waldman, Anne. GOSSAMURMUR (Penguin, 2013).
Waldman, Anne and Laura Wright, eds. CROSS WORLDS: TRANSCULTURAL POETICS
(Coffee House press 2014).




Week 1 September 14: INTRODUCTION
Object: THE SHAPE OF TIME (1962) George Kubler

Week 2 October 19: FRANCESCO CLEMENTE
Object: excerpt from PANTANJALI YOGA SUTRA

Week 3 October 26: IRA SACHS
Object: WORD IS OUT: STORIES OF SOME OF OUR LIVES (1977)

Week 4 November 2: ANNA BETBEZE
Object: EYES OF THE SKIN (1996) Juhani Pallasmaa

Week 5 November 9: MICHAEL TAUSSIG
Object: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (2012) Michael Taussig & PDF postscript

Week 6 November 16: ANNE WALDMAN
Object: CROSS WORLDS (2014) eds. Waldman and Wright
& GOSSAMURMUR (2013) Anne Waldman

Week 7 November 23: COCO FUSCO
Object: "L'1%, C'EST MOI" (2011) Andrea Fraser & "One Step Forward, Two Steps
Back? Thoughts about the Donnelle Woolford Debate" Coco Fusco

Week 8 November 30: ANN McCOY
Object: BEES (1923) Rudolph Steiner

Week 9 December 7: JIM DRAIN
Object: JACKIE UNDER MY SKIN (1995) Wayne Koestenbaum
& REGARDING THE PAIN OF OTHERS (2003) Susan Sontag

Week 10 December 14: JACOLBY SATTERWHITE
Object: VESPERTINE LIVE AT THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE (2002) Bjork