Jasonwclark
September 13th, 2007, 05:06 PM
I just finished reading Giorgio Vasari's "Lives" and I'm looking for some other interesting books for the Fall. Any suggestions?
I've pretty much exhausted most of the Classical sources (in translation anyway), and I bored my way through Lessing a few years ago. Nietzsche is a constant source of inspiration (and the only aesthetic theorist to make a real impact on me), but I'm starting to bleed him a bit dry lately and I'd to toy around with someone else for a while. Philosophers of art are usually pretty irritating (especially the Anglo-American ones), so I was hoping to find another good biographer or novelist to keep me occupied instead. I really dug Husymans, and Wilde, so maybe something along those lines, if I can't find another Suetonius of the arts...
Anyhow, just thought I'd throw the feelers out there and see if anyone had any solid recommendations. Thanks in advance to anyone who chimes in. :)
-J
I've pretty much exhausted most of the Classical sources (in translation anyway), and I bored my way through Lessing a few years ago. Nietzsche is a constant source of inspiration (and the only aesthetic theorist to make a real impact on me), but I'm starting to bleed him a bit dry lately and I'd to toy around with someone else for a while. Philosophers of art are usually pretty irritating (especially the Anglo-American ones), so I was hoping to find another good biographer or novelist to keep me occupied instead. I really dug Husymans, and Wilde, so maybe something along those lines, if I can't find another Suetonius of the arts...
Anyhow, just thought I'd throw the feelers out there and see if anyone had any solid recommendations. Thanks in advance to anyone who chimes in. :)
-J