Homer paper

So my first grad. school art history paper, that is currently causing me much angst, and that is the project for the weekend (and every weekend for the next month), is about two Winslow Homer pictures hanging in the Clark Eastern Point and West Point, Prout's Neck. (I hope the link thing works) The Clark is a nifty museum, the major art library of the NE outside of Boston (which is non-circulating), the building where all my grad. program stuff is, and my second home.

I have done nothing exciting this wekend, but at least I've been somewhat productive. I've not even seen anyone in the program except in the library, that is sad. When I was at the Hood someone told me that when he was in grad. school he could go for 2-3 days at a time without talking to anyone. I think I would go crazy. I should visit the Fort. (The Fort is the house where 9 out of 12 of the first-year grad. students live, it's sort of like Amarna; the Halloween party we threw was a lot like an Amarna party: elaborate decorations (in an art history theme of course, we had a toilet and urinals), lots of candy, stupid college regulations like registering, random costumes, yummy alcohol, music and dancing, and we all had a good time, but complained that not enough non-grad -students showed up even though we had invited them. Sound familiar Amarnites? The house is even somewhat on the fringes of campus and there are "boarders" aka non-art-history-grad-program-people. The only other grad program here is in Development Economics. It's a 9 month program for people from developing countries (i.e. St. Lucia, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Belize, Georgia (the country), Uzbekistan, etc) They're all really nice (and threw a great party earlier in the term), but many of them are older and it seems we don't always have a lot in common.

Anti-Facist Day

Aparantly I missed that yesterday 11/9/02 was Anti-Facist Day. According to this article 10,000 kunas ($1500) was collected for an Iraqui woman who is in a home in Zagreb for foreigners and is suffering from hydrocephalitis(sp?). Thanks to Denis for keeping me informed of world events. If anyone knows exactly what hydrocephalitis is, please jump in, all I know is that it doesn't sound good.

Utter crap

Ok bizzare-art-historians-who-somehow-got-these-wacko-theories-published-in-major-art-journals you are not going to convince me that Homer's  
The Gulf Stream is an Oedipal statement about the artist's ambivalent feelings toward his father (as opposed to plausible theories about it being a metaphor for the difficult position of blacks in post-Reconstruction America), then you are going to convince me that the crows in Homer's The Fox Hunt are flying penises or that the haystacks in Weaning the Calf are breasts, and multicultural (one black, one white) breasts at that. Why or why do we still love Freud? If I turned in any theory that like for my paper, my professor would not be impressed, and yet, he assigned this reading.