Where did the phrase "That gave me the willies" come from and how did it kick off the American Sublime? And what was the first landscape on Earth? Find out in this week's episode as my guest, collage artist, Todd Bartel joins me to talk about our favorite subjects: Collage and Landscape.
Click here to see images of Todd's work: https://www.toddbartel.com/
Click here to read Todd's writings on collage: https://issuu.com/toddbartel
Todd Bartel's music (used in this episode): "Several Big Changes" 2009 (intro, musical stings and outro) & "Retinalmade and Readymade" 2020 (musical stings and end music). Listen to these and more here: https://necto.bandcamp.com/
Recommended texts:
Leo Marx "The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America"
Man of Commerce Map, 1889 (LINK)
Simon Schama "Landscape and Memory"
Kenneth Clark "Landscape Into Art"
Kari Jormakka "Theoretical Landscapes—On the Interface Between Architectural Theory and Landscape Architecture"
William Shakespeare "Hamlet"
Nathaniel Hawthorne "The Scarlet Letter" & "The Ambitious Guest" (a short story inspired by the Willey family tragedy)
Amy's segment: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Faust" (esp the part about his Faust-y homunculus)

More about the Crawford Notch/Willey Family tragedy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willey_House_(New_Hampshire)

Artists mentioned: Hardu Keck, Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Comte de Lautreamont’s famous image from Les Chants de Maldoror, Alfred DeCredico, Michael Oatman, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Cole, Charlie Nevad, Zdeněk Michael František Burian, Rene Magritte's "The Treachery of Images", Burgess Collins aka Jess' "Xrysxrossanthemums" 1978, Amy's segment: Rene Magritte's "The Apparition" and Andre Masson's "Gradiva"

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Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/

Thank you Todd! Thank you listeners! See you next time.
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Other music used was licensed from Soundstripe.

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