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On Thursday November 12, the Museum, Café and Shop will be closed.
Garage launches a book club exploring texts by artists for participants aged 14 to 17.
Over seven meetings book club participants will learn about literature written by artists from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century and discover new points of view about their favourite works of art. We will discuss extracts from texts that we have read at home and share our thoughts on them.
To take part please apply before 20:00 on February 8
At the first meeting book club participants will get to know each other and talk about why artists write their texts and why people read them.
Participants will learn about the memoir genre and discuss Vasily Kandinsky’s autobiographical narrative The Artist’s Text. Steps.
In order to discover the epistolary genre participants will read and discuss letters from Albrecht Dürer and Vincent van Gogh.
Based on Leon Battista Alberti’s Three Books on Art, participants will find out what artists wish to teach readers through their treatises.
Participants will talk about art criticism, discussing the polemic between the English writer and critic John Ruskin and the artist James Whistler from the book The Gentle Art of Making Enemies.
Participants will learn how conceptual artists work with words, based on texts by Yuri Albert and Rimma Gerlovina.
At the final meeting participants will read manifestos from two artistic movement, the Russian Futurists and Fluxus, and will summarize the outcomes of the book club by writing their own manifestos.
