The Aesthetics of Shalom: Resources

(a list ever in bloom)

BOOKS

• Painting After All, Gerhard Richter
• Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, Friedrich A. Kittler
• Deserts Are Not Empty, Edited by Samia Henni
• The Fold: From Your Body to the Cosmos, Laura U. Marks
• Yield — The Journal of an Artist, Anne Truitt
• If These Apples Should Fall: Cézanne and the Present, T.J. Clark
• Heaven On Earth: Painting and the Life to Come, T.J. Clark
• Tools for Conviviality, Ivan Illich
• The Question Concerning Technology, Martin Heidegger
• Art and Technics, Lewis Mumford
• Make Your Home in This Luminous Dark, James K.A. Smith
• The Written World and the Unwritten World, Italo Calvino
• What Are People For?, Wendell Berry
• Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible, Ellen F. Davis
• How to Inhabit Time, James K.A. Smith
• The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli
• The Aesthetics of Chaosmos: The Middle Ages of James Joyce, Umberto Eco
• The Enchantments of Mammon, Eugene McCarraher
• The Beauty of the Infinite, David Bentley Hart
• The Making of a Mind: Letters from a Soldier-Priest [1914-1919], Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• The Arts of Democracy, Casey Nelson Blake
• The Timeless Way of Building, Christopher Alexander
• A Pattern Language, Christopher Alexander, et al
• The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard
• The Sabbath, Abraham Joshua Heschel
• The Theology of the Built Environment, T.J. Gorringe
• Iconostasis, Pavel Florensky
• The Well-Wrought Urn, Cleanth Brooks
• Prophets of the Posthuman, Christina Bieber Lake
• On Beauty and Being Just, Elaine Scarry
• Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement, The Friends of Attention
• Beyond Vision: Essays on the Perception of Art, Pavel Florensky
• Scenes of Attention: Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses, edited by D. Graham Burnett and Justin E.H. Smith
• Music and the Ineffable, Vladimir Jankélévitch
• Testimony of the Invisible Man, Nancy Willard
• A Primer for Forgetting, Lewis Hyde
• The Open Work, Umberto Eco
• The Writing Life, Annie Dillard
• A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
• The Life of Forms in Art, Henri Focillon
• In the Vineyard of the Text by Ivan Illich

ARTICLES

• The Uselessness of Art: Essays in the Philosophy of Art and Literature
• The Tune of Things: Is Consciousness God?
• Poetry Makes Nothing Happen
• The Claims of Close Reading
• Art As Technique
• The Importance of a Certain Slowness

FILMS

• Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling
• The Square by Ruben Östlund
• Unrest (2022) by Cyril Schäublin
• Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders
• Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders
• The Beast by Bertrand Bonello
• It’s Not Me by Leox Carax
• Swept Drawings (This is over five hours of watching Andy Goldsworthy sweep a floor. It’s completely captivating)
• The Artist’s Studio: Jean Dubuffet by Michael Blackwood
• 81/2 by Federico Fellini

MUSIC

• “Ascent“ by Joe Zawinal, from Directions by Miles Davis
• Dolmen Music by Meredith Monk
• Música Callada by Federico Mompou
• Laurie Spiegel Special curated by Kit Grill for NTS
• I get along without you very well by Ellen Arkbro
• There’s a New World Coming’ by Bernice Johnson Reagon
• Leaf-Playing In Quito, 1960-1965 by Biluka Y Los Caníbales
• Sonambient Recordings (1978) by Harry Bertoia
• Songs of Earth by The Dirty Projectors
• Mattering and Meaning by Dan Nicholls
• Pauline Oliveros: Sonic Religion by The Roulette Tapes