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Bento’s Sketchbook: John Berger on Drawing

February 3, 2015 by Museum Fatigue

[I was going through some old drafts of posts-never-completed this morning and decided to delete the ones I’ll never get back to. Others, like this one are just collections of quotes that never got turned into anything. Nevertheless they might be useful someday so I’ve decided to just post them as-is] “At first you question…in order to discover lines, shapes, tones that you can take on the paper. The drawing accumulates the answers. Also, of course, it accumulate corrections, after […]

Categories: Books, Drawing • Tags: John Berger, notebooks, sketching

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Michael Taussig on Field Notebooks—I Swear I Saw This

March 17, 2014 by Museum Fatigue

“I think of the hard work I have done and even more of all the waiting and boredom as not exactly irrelevant but as nothing more than a necessary prelude for chance to show its hand” (Taussig 2011:59). Last night I finished reading Michael Taussig’s reflections on drawings in anthropological field notebooks (namely his) in his 2011 book, I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own (University of Chicago Press.) Similar to my experience with most of his […]

Categories: Anthropology, Drawing, Fieldwork, Quotes • Tags: drawings, fieldnotes, Georges Bataille, I Swear I Saw This, Joan Didion, John Berger, Michael Taussig, notebooks, roland barthes, Walter Benjamin

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