Duende, Berger and 'imperatives of conscience'
Level 4/ 1 day schedule for Oct 16th Tuesday 11am to 6.30pm
Meet at up as a peer group at eleven am ! - discuss development and use studio and campus for work and research - Bring diary one or two books you are researching with you to show.
( see if you can identify these works here by two different artists male and female )
4pm - 5pm Research task ( Duende ) and Essay brief to be discussed again and outlined - firmed up by you and inform me of your choices and also
The German "Einfühlung" (empathy) has a more distinctive meaning of
"feeling into" something - to absorb it - to empathize with it or take feeling from it ?
* 5pm - 6pm Lev 4 / 2 group seminar with MM for contextual proposal discussion / essay
* means I have to postponed lev 4/1 Cornerhouse trip
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text below from Keith Sager's excellent book 'The Art of Ted Hughes'
Research for essay task
A Fortunate man by John Berger, Jean Mohr
A Fortunate Man;
The Story Of A Country Doctor
by John Berger, Jean Mohr
In this quietly revolutionary work of social observation and medical philosophy, Booker Prize-winning writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr train their gaze on an English country doctor and find a universal man--one who has taken it upon himself to recognize his patient's humanity when illness and the fear of death have made them unrecognizable to themselves. In the impoverished rural community in which he works, John Sassall tend the maimed, the dying, and the lonely. He is not only the dispenser of cures but the repository of memories. And as Berger and Mohr follow Sassall about his rounds, they produce a book whose careful detail broadens into a meditation on the value we assign a human life. First published thirty years ago, A Fortunate Man remains moving and deeply relevant--no other book has offered such a close and passionate investigation of the roles doctors play in their society.
"In contemporary letters John Berger seems to me peerless; not since Lawrence has there been a writer who offers such attentiveness to the sensual world with responsiveness to the imperatives of conscience."--Susan Sontag
