{"id":50,"date":"2006-08-01T05:24:50","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T05:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2006\/08\/01\/ridiculous-reading\/"},"modified":"2006-08-01T05:24:50","modified_gmt":"2006-08-01T05:24:50","slug":"ridiculous-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"ridiculous reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Understanding Installation Art<\/em> by Mark Rosenthal is the worst art book I have ever read, great photos not withstanding.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of great photos of installation art, my new favorite thesis break activity is planning a month-long car trip, which includes seeing Mount Rushmore (for my kid), Walter De Maria&#8217;s <em>The Lightning Field<\/em> (1977) and Robert Smithson&#8217;s <em>Spiral Jetty<\/em> (1970) (for me) and passing through Calgary (Banff and Lake Louise) and heading back down the coast to So Cal.<\/p>\n<p>I hope <em>Installation Art in the New Millennium<\/em> will be better, otherwise I will be forced to stop doing research and to begin writing..<\/p>\n<p>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/the-lightning-field.jpg\" title=\"the lightning field\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/the-lightning-field.jpg\" alt=\"the lightning field\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/spiral-jetty.jpg\" title=\"spiral-jetty.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/spiral-jetty.jpg\" alt=\"spiral-jetty.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding Installation Art by Mark Rosenthal is the worst art book I have ever read, great photos not withstanding. Speaking of great photos of installation art, my new favorite thesis break activity is planning a month-long car trip, which includes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=50\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-thesis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}