The Great God Pan Is Dead

The Great God Pan is Dead is a blog about art. It often touches on books (art books, art history, graphic novels), but is primarily about visual art with ta focus on visual art in the vicinity of Houston, Texas. Visit us at https://thegreatgodpanisdead.substack.com//.

Robert Boyd's Book Report VIEW LIST (60 BOOKS)

Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Flew Into Space from His Apartment

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed: Revised and Updated

I Shock Myself: Beatrice Wood, Career Woman of Art

Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny, Endurance, and the Role of the Artist

Ways of Seeing

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era

North Toward Home

The Monkey's Wrench

The Periodic Table

The Reawakening: The Companion Volume to Survival in Auschwitz

Survival in Auschwitz

The Golden Notebook

Dune

Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews

Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey

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Houston VIEW LIST (18 BOOKS)

One Million Acres & No Zoning

Memorial

Prophetic City: Houston on the Cusp of a Changing America

Collision, Volume 19: The Contemporary Art Scene in Houston, 1972-1985

Art and Activism: Projects of John and Dominique de Menil

House of Hits: The Story of Houston's Gold Star/Sugarhill Recording Studios

Pleasantville

The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World

Murder & Mayhem in Houston: Historic Bayou City Crime

Unprecedented Power: Jesse Jones, Capitalism, and the Common Good

Painting the Town Orange: The Stories Behind Houston's Visionary Art Environments

Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life

The Man with the Candy: The Story of the Houston Mass Murders

The Teachings of Don B.: Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories, and Plays

Black Water Rising

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Photography VIEW LIST (10 BOOKS)

Robert Frank: The Americans

William Eggleston's Guide

Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph: Fortieth-Anniversary Edition

Of the Soil: Photographs of Vernacular Architecture and Stories of Changing Times in Arkansas

Francesca Woodman: On Being an Angel

Daido Moriyama: Record

Along Forgotten River: Photographs of Buffalo Bayou and the Houston Ship Channel, 1997-2001, with Accounts of Early Travelers to Texas, 1767-

Diane Arbus: Untitled

William Eggleston: The Democratic Forest

Keith Carter: Fifty Years

Art History and Criticism VIEW LIST (16 BOOKS)

A Life of Picasso IV: The Minotaur Years: 1933-1943

Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin

Collision, Volume 19: The Contemporary Art Scene in Houston, 1972-1985

The Lives of Artists: Collected Profiles

Midcentury Modern Art in Texas

The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I

A Sweeper-Up After Artists: A Memoir

The Magazine

Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader

Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement

Art and Otherness: Crisis in Cultural (Revised)

Out of Sight: The Los Angeles Art Scene of the Sixties

Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters

The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism

Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World

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My Favorite Graphic Novels VIEW LIST (67 BOOKS)

Hand-Drying in America: And Other Stories

Crisis Zone

Trots and Bonnie

The Cartoon History of the Universe: Volumes 1-7: From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great

The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for

Ho!

Puke Force

The Ticking

Kampung Boy

Robert Crumb. Sketchbook Vol. 1. 1964-1968

Pure Pajamas

Fran

Rusty Brown

The Cage (Revised)

Summer Blonde

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Various Fiction and Literary Writing VIEW LIST (36 BOOKS)

Friday

Roadside Picnic: Volume 16

The Book of Dave

Civilwarland in Bad Decline: Stories and a Novella

Nobody's Fool

The Counterlife

Gravity's Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition): (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Bel Canto

Mutiny on the Bounty

A House for Mr. Biswas

Pale Fire

The First Rumpole Omnibus: Rumpole of the Bailey/The Trials of Rumpole/Rumpole's Return

North Toward Home

The Final Programme: The Cornelius Quartet 1

The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work

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Nautical Fiction VIEW LIST (44 BOOKS)

The Sea-Wolf

The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels: With the Unfinished Twenty-First Novel

The Far Side of the World

The Reverse of the Medal

The Hundred Days

The Surgeon's Mate

The Letter of Marque

The Ionian Mission

The Wine-Dark Sea

21: The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey

Desolation Island

H.M.S. Surprise

Post Captain

In Gallant Company

Enemy in Sight!

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Chicago, Los Angeles and Houston Artists VIEW LIST (16 BOOKS)

Painting the Town Orange: The Stories Behind Houston's Visionary Art Environments

Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle

Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy: The Tragic Life of an Outsider Artist

Mark Flood: Gratest Hits

Theaster Gates: Black Madonna

More Than a Constructive Hobby: The Paintings of Frank Freed

Robert Irwin Getty Garden

James Surls: From the Heartland

Leon Golub Powerplay: The Political Portraits

Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work

Trenton Doyle Hancock: Mind of the Mound: Critical Mass

Bum Town

Kienholz: Five Car Stud

Collision, Volume 19: The Contemporary Art Scene in Houston, 1972-1985

Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980

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Classic Comic Strips VIEW LIST (16 BOOKS)

Moomin Deluxe: Volume One

White Boy in Skull Valley

Popeye: "let's You and Him Fight!"

Polly and Her Pals Vol. 2: 1928-1930

Buck Wild Doonesbury, Volume 19: A Doonesbury Book

Winsor McCay. the Complete Little Nemo 1910-1927

I Go Pogo

Hurricane Isle and Other Adventures: The Best of Captain Easy

Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White

And a Blind Man Shall Lead Them: Daily and Sunday Comics 1929-1931

Barnaby Volume One

The Complete Dick Tracy, Volume 15: 1953-54 Dailies & Sundays

Steve Canyon Volume 9: 1963-1964

Sundays with Walt and Skeezix

Walt and Skeezix: Book One, 1921 & 1922: Book One

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Business and Finance VIEW LIST (14 BOOKS)

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street

House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street

The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street

Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks and Fraud in Financial Reports

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

Liar's Poker

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else

The Lost Bank: The Story of Washington Mutual - The Biggest Bank Failure in American History

Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School

The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes

Power Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron