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I have decided to not bother with trying to strip the woodwork. It will be easier to just paint over it. A few of the baseboards I am replacing because they were chipped up and I started to strip them, so now it will be easier and safer to just take them out. I spent a few hours pulling them out, and I think it's going to take a while longer. It's a big, thick board and it's about ten feet long and it's just held in with nails but they are pretty long. I hope a bigger wedge will help because I got myself into a rut.
I've also started to paint. My living room is mostly painted the dark red called "Mark Twain House Brown." I chose yellows for the rest of the rooms. The front hallway will be a bright yellow called "Mark Twain House Yellow" and I have an ochre-looking one for the other room called "Belle Grove Brass." I'm not sure what kind of room that room will be. The kitchen will probably also be that color. Maybe the bathroom will be the red. I didn't choose any greens.
It doesn't look like I'm going to be able to do anything to update the contemporary course next semester. It's frustrating. There aren't any textbooks that will actually work because you can either find recent books that actually involve the last decade of art that start in the 80s or 90s, or you can find books that were published in the early 00s that cover the 60s or 70s. That means that this course became outdated about ten years ago and no one actually publishes books that conceive of contemporary art history in that way anymore. So I ended up choosing a book that was published in 2005 that starts in 1970, but which really doesn't have much of a notion of anything past the mid-90s. I'd found a few books that would have actually made for a really nice class so it's disappointing and irritating. At least the book is pretty short, so I can probably speed through it to some extent and at least put some readings that are more relevant to contemporary art on reserve.
I've also started to paint. My living room is mostly painted the dark red called "Mark Twain House Brown." I chose yellows for the rest of the rooms. The front hallway will be a bright yellow called "Mark Twain House Yellow" and I have an ochre-looking one for the other room called "Belle Grove Brass." I'm not sure what kind of room that room will be. The kitchen will probably also be that color. Maybe the bathroom will be the red. I didn't choose any greens.
It doesn't look like I'm going to be able to do anything to update the contemporary course next semester. It's frustrating. There aren't any textbooks that will actually work because you can either find recent books that actually involve the last decade of art that start in the 80s or 90s, or you can find books that were published in the early 00s that cover the 60s or 70s. That means that this course became outdated about ten years ago and no one actually publishes books that conceive of contemporary art history in that way anymore. So I ended up choosing a book that was published in 2005 that starts in 1970, but which really doesn't have much of a notion of anything past the mid-90s. I'd found a few books that would have actually made for a really nice class so it's disappointing and irritating. At least the book is pretty short, so I can probably speed through it to some extent and at least put some readings that are more relevant to contemporary art on reserve.