The Canopy Program Portal:
Readings

Suggested titles and PDFs shared within the program.

Color Theory

On Color

Amy Sillman

Interaction of Color

Josef Albers

Black and White

Katy Siegel

Cabinet Essays on Color

Chromophobia

David Batchelor

Matisse's Black Light

John Gage

Yellow Perils

David Scott Kastan

Pink!: Community, Contestation and the Colour of Breast Cancer

Charlene Elliott

Goethe's Theory of Colours

Goethe

Red and black and color in general

Donald Judd

Art Theory

In Plato's Cave

Susan Sontag

Why Look at Animals

John Berger

Art History & Criticism

The Forever Now

Laura Hauptman

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's Imaginary Portraits

Zadie Smith

Ninth Street Women 
[link to purchase]

Mary Gabriel

Art on My Mind

Bell Hooks

Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston [link to purchase]

Musa Mayer

The Indigo Revolt of Bengal

Subhas Bhattacharya

Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy [link to purchase]

Dave Hickey

The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art, and the Spirit World [link to purchase]

Jennifer Higgie

I Want to Paint Every Color in the World

John Yau

What Do Reliquaries Do for Relics?

Cynthia Hahn

The "Iron Man": Imagining Muslims and Vanishing Objects in the Shrine of Sainte Foy at Conques

Kris N. Racaniello

Artist Writing

Faux Pas [link to purchase]

Amy Sillman

Daybook, The Journal of an Artist
[link to purchase]

Anne Truitt

Notes from the Woodshed
[link to purchase]

Jack Whitten

The Creative Independent: Interviews with Artists and Creatives

Process

The Courage to Create
[link to purchase]

Rollo May

Letters to a Young Artist
[link to purchase]

Howardena Pindell

The Creative Act: A Way of Being
[link to pruchase]

Rick Rubin

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear [link to purchase]

Elizabeth Gilbert

The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life [link to purchase]

Twyla Tharp

Artist's Guide to Making a Living Doing What You Love [link to purchase]

Jackie Battenfield

Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind/Baby Proble [link to purchase]

Julie Phillips

Vision & Perception

Notes on Seeing

Siri Hustvedt

Woolf's Darkness: Embracing the Inexplicable

Rebecca Solnit

Literature

Bluets

Maggie Nelson

My Private Property

Mary Ruefle

The Colour out of Space

H.P. Lovecraft

The Country of the Blind

H.G. Wells

My Name is Red (excerpt)

Orhan Pamuk

The Whiteness of the Whale, Moby Dick (excerpt)

Herman Melville

Everything is Waiting for You

David Whyte