Dear Research Diary,

Today I was very busy with schoolwork and spent all day in the library reading and writing for these midterms. But I was able to also dedicate some time to reading more of the Survey from Christov’s book. It went into the different movements which had happened directly before AP and influenced it. Spazialismo (Lucio Fontana) Cobra (Asger Jorn) and Yves Klein in particular as well as the Fluxus happenings and Gutai and John Cage. There was also some historical contextualization as she went into the student movements of 68’ for the first time, it’s hardly mentioned in Lista, but of course it is very significant that the movement started at around the same time as all of this revolutionary action, anti-Vietnam war, drug era, etc… Very useful was her explication of the important writers of that time period, among the names are Barthes, Adorno, Lacan, Chomsky. Also important is the heightened attention to theatre as art became more theatrical through the ideas of performance art and the action painting of Pollock. This source is proving to be a very rich one and I need to continue through this, it’s really dense and big, but here I go.