Filed under: Images, Research | Tags: American Dream, Images, Kristin Marting




Filed under: Images, Research | Tags: American Dream, Images, Kristin Marting
Closing a Summer Cottage, Quogue, New York, a 1957 Norman Rockwell art-directed Colorama by Ralph Amdursky and Charles Baker. © 2009 Kodak, courtesy of George Eastman House




Filed under: Images, Research | Tags: American Dream, Images, Kristin Marting




Filed under: Images, Research | Tags: American Dream, Images, Kristin Marting


Filed under: Images, Research | Tags: American Dream, Images, Kristin Marting
Filed under: Images, Research | Tags: American Dream, Images, Kristin Marting
Lush Valley Bibliographies
As of 8/18/10
Fiction:
U.S.A. by Dos Passos. PS3507.0743U92. pub.1939 (p.23; 350/1)
Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger, Jr. PS1029.A3A6. pub. 1868. (p.138/9)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. PN4874.T444A3. pub.1998 (p.6; 18/9; 24/5; 56/7; 164/5; 187; 190/1)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. PS3511.I9G7. pub. 1980 (p.6)
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. PS3537.I85J85. pub. 2005
On the Road by Jack Kerouac. PS3521.E735O52. pub. 1957 (p.6/7; 10/1)
An American Dream by Norman Mailer. PS3525.A4152A4. pub. 1965
The American Dream by Edward Albee. PS3501.L178A7. pub. 1961 (p.68/9; 104/5)
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. PS3511.I9T4. pub. 1962
Something Happened by Joseph Heller. PS3558.E476S65. pub. 1974
An American Dream Girl by James T. Farrell. PS3511A738A7. pub. 1950 (p.30/1; 32; 74; 82/3; 81-85)
Green Mansions by W.H. Hudson. PR6015.U145G7. pub. 1932 (p.10/1)
American Dream by Michael Foster. PS3511.O65A4. pub. 1937
Struggling Upward by Horatio Alger, Jr. PS1029.A3S775. pub. 1971
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser. PS3507.R55A7. pub. 2003
The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence. (Print out)
Company by Max Barry. pub. 2005/6?
Jennifer Government by Max Barry. PS3552.A7424J46. pub. 2003
First Hand Accounts:
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver. E185.97.C6. pub. 1935 (p66/7??)
Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man by Susan Faludi. Pub. 2000 (p.594/5; 598/9; 602/3)
Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich. pub. 2005
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich. pub. 2001 (p.12/3; 18; 26/7)
American Notes by Charles Dickens. E165.D6. pub. 1968
Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X. E185.97.L5A3. pub. 1973 (p.192/3; 280; 365; 377; 458/9
Letters from an American Farmer by Hector St. John de Creveceur. E163.C826. pub.
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville. JK216.T713. pub. 2000 (p.3; 6/7; 52/3;
Architecture
Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work, and Family Life by Dolores Hayden. HD7293.H39. pub. 1986 (p.1; 6/7; 16/7; 18/9)
Architecture and the American Dream by Craig Whitaker. pub. 1996 (p.4-5; 7; 31
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis. HN80.L7D38. pub. 1992 (p.228/9)
The Theming of America: American Dreams, Media Fantasies, and Themed Environments by Mark Gottdiener pub. 2001
Interview
Roots by Alex Haley. E185.97.H24A33. pub.1976
The Great Divide: Second thoughts on the American Dream by Studs Terkel. E839.4.T47. pub. 1988 (p.66/7; 100/1; 124/5; 158/9; 210/1; 278/9; 282/3; 290/1; 294/5; 252/3; 358/9; 370/1)
American Dreams: Lost and Found by Studs Terkel. pub. 1980 (p.vii; xxii/I; 4/5; 52/3; 83-94; 282/3; 294/5; 296/7; 304-307; 314/5; 318/9; 322-327; 424/5; 428/9; 436/7; 438/9; 448/9; 458/9; 474/5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C48aGtPIuZo (New York Times report on what a random sampling of people consider the American Dream, interviewed around New York City)
Lit. Criticism
Literature and the Sixth Sense by Philip Rahv. PN761.R26. pub. 1969 (p.332/3)
American Dream American Nightmare: Fiction since 1960 by Kathryn Hume. PS374.F24H86. pub. 2000 (p.208/9; 228/9)
The American Dream and the Popular Novel by Elizabeth Long. PS374.B45L65. pub. 1985 (p121; 122)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Review by??). PS3511.I9G837. pub. 1999
From Rags to Riches by John Trebbel. PS1029.A3Z85. pub. 1963.
Dreamers of the American Dream by Stewart H. Holbrook. HN57.H55. pub. 1957 (p.150/1)
American Dreams American Nightmares by David Madden. PS221.M25. pub. 1970 (xiv/v; xvii/ix; 28/9)
American Vertigo Bernard Henri Levy
Art of Democracy -Jim Cullen
Oh Say, did you now? Fred Dubose/Martha Halley
Phliosophical/Political
The Epic of America by James Truslow Adams. E178.A2594. pub. 1959 (p.90/1??; 374/5; 376/7; 384/5)
Facing up to the American Dream by Jennifer L. Hochschild. E185.615.H55. pub. 1995 (p. 254/5)
Tender is the Night edited by Marvin J. LaHood. PS3511.I9T47. pub. 1969
The Image or What Happened to the American Dream by Daniel J. Boorstin. E169.1.B752. pub. 1962 (p.239; 240/1; 250/1; 254/5; 258/9)
The American Dream by Jim Cullen. E169.1.C837. pub. 2003 (p.32)
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama. Pub. 2006 (p.22/3; 54/5; 68/9; 144/5)
MLK, Jr. speech
Malcolm X Cleveland 1964 speech in response to MKL, Jr.’s above speech
Reflecting on America: Anthropological Views of US Culture by Clare L. Boulanger pub. 2008
Suburbia: the American Dream and Dilemma by Philip C. Dolce
The Real American Dream by Andrew Delbanco
http://www.forbes.com/2007/03/20/american-dream-oped-cx_de_dream0307_0322dream_land.html
Bread & Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream by Bruce Watson
Economics
American Dream Gobal Nightmare by Sandy Vogelesang. JX1417.V63. pub. 1980
Silent Depression by Wallace C. Peterson. HC106.8.P46. pub. 1994
The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth by Norton Garfinkle. HC103.G32. pub. 2006
Restoring the American Dream by Thomas A. Kochan. HD4904.25.K634. pub. 2005 (p.xii/i; 204/5)
The Good Life and its Discontents by Robert J. Samuelson pub. 1995
American Dreams by Vernon Louis Parrington, Jr. HX806.P37. pub. 1947
American Dreaming: Immigrant Life on the Margins by Sarah J. Mahler. HN90.M26M34. pub. 1995 (p.4/5; 214/5; 230/1)
Declining Fortunes by Katherine S. Newman. HN90.S6N47. pub. 1993 (p.ix; x/i; 148/9; 150/1; 152/3; 154/5; 160/1; 162/3;
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0303.florida.html
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2006/wagingaliving/about.html
Article- “Working Families Fall Behind”
by Jared and Elise Gould http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/webfeatures_econindicators_income20060829
Is the American Dream Killing You? By Paul Stiles
Diners, Bowling Alleys and Trailer Parks Andrew Hurley HC110.C 6H87 2001
Golden Dreams: California in the age of Abundance – Kevin Starr
Photography:
Photography and the American Dream , Bill Clinton TR6.N392.A477 2001
Photographing the American Dream Solomon Butcher TR652.B86 1985
American Photograph TR820.5.G82 1991
Suburbia Bill Owen TR6 54. O87
Life Magazine : photo essays TR820.5 67
Separate, But Equal
American Photography and the American Dream by James Guimond
Other Books that have Come Up in Research
Life Magazine American Dream photo essays
Look Magazine
Suburban Nation Andrea Dian HT384.U5 D83 2001
Outsourcing the American Dream by Christopher England pub. 2001
Pursuing the American Dream by Cal Jillson pub. 2004
Second-rate Nation: from the American Dream to the American Myth by Sam Sieber
Mexican Workers and American Dreams by Camille Guerin-Gonzales
Travels in Hyperreality
Where we live now
Death of a Salesman
Fences
David Brooks- Paradise Drive
Suburban nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
The Bulldozer in the countryside – adam rome
Rise up Singing
Interpreter of Maladies – Jhump Lahiri
The Americans – Photos by Robert Frank
Where We Live: Photos of America from the Berman collection
Love and The American Dream -Robert Indiana
Marjan Post Wollcott Photographs
Archtecture of Happiness
Duane Hanson Sculptures of the American Dream
Bowling Alone
Boulevard of Dreams -Rosenblum
Struggling Upward -Horatio Alger
American dream: three women, ten kids, and a nation’s drive to end welfare – Jason DeParle
Facing up to the American dream: race, class, and the soul of the nation By Jennifer L. Hochschild
The Field Guide to Getting Lost By Rebecca Solnit
Songs:
*Artist’s listed here are who’s lyrics we have, not necessarily the original author of the song*
Cry Freedom- Dave Matthews Band
In the Sweet By and By- Johnny Cash, Polly Parton
Lay My Burden Down- Seemless
Lift Every Voice and Sing
When the Saints Go Marching In- Louis Armstrong
Born in the USA- Bruce Springsteen
America the Beautiful- words: Katharine Bates; Melody: Samuel Ward
7 O’Clock News/Silent Night- Simon and Garfunkel
Blowin’ in the Wind- Joan Baez
Home Sweet Home
This Ain’t No Rag, It’s a Flag- Charlie Daniels Band
The American Ruse- MC5
Blood is Thicker than Water- Pitbull
American Pie- Don McLean
Living in America- James Brown
Made in America- Richie Sambora
Michael Jordan- Five for Fighting
Sounds of Silence- Simon and Garfunkel
Teach Your Children- Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
What You Own- Rent
America- Waylon Jennings
In America- Downhere
Johnny America- Five for Fighting
America Town- Five for Fighting
Last Great American- Five for Fighting
Sail Away- Randy Newman
Amazing Grace- The Blind Boys of Alabama
American Woman- The Guess Who
Boom- System of a Down
Chimes of Freedom- The Byrds
Fortunate Son- John Fogerty
Good Night, New York- Nancy Griffith
Hallelujah- Jeff Buckley
I’m A Patriot- Pearl Jam
Know Your Rights- The Clash
New America- Bad Religion
Part of the Process- Morcheeba
We’re All to Blame- Sum 41
Where is the Love- Black Eyed Peas
With God on Our Side- Bob Dylan
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Christmas in Washington- Earle Steve
Erie Canal
Help Save the Youth of America- Billy Bragg
My Country ‘tis of Thee
Monster/Suicide/America- Steppenwolf
Only in America- Brooks and Dunn
Only in America- Jay and the Americans
I Miss America- Harry Chapin
Boulevard of Broken Dreams- Green Day
America- Neil Diamond
Free to be You and Me- the New Seekers
This Land is Your Land- words and music: Woody Guthrie
My Old Kentucky Home- words and music: Stephen C. Foster
You’re a Grand Old Flag
Compared to What-Roberta Flack
We Shall Overcome
Cuyahoga-REM
America – Simon & Garfunkel
Mr. Farmer – The Seeds
You and I – Ingrid Michaelson
Sell Out – Reel Big Fish
Little Boxes – Malvina Reynolds
America –
West Side Story
American Life – Madonna
Gershwin
Copland
Don’t You Push Me Down
This Train is Bound For Glory
Movies:
Rocky
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
An American Tail
Avalon
American Beauty
Coming to America
Office Space
On the Waterfront
The Pursuit of Happyness
Cinderella Man
Forest Gump
Wall Street
Citizen Kane
It’s a Wonderful Life
Rudy
October Sky
Good Will Hunting
Revolutionary Road
Working Girl
Flashdance
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Pretty Woman
Some Like it Hot
Auntie Mame
Musical
OK!
WestSideStory
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Reference Collection Books –
Can be accessed at Library
The American Dream and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema by J. Emmett Winn
Elvis Presley, Richard Nixon and the American Dream by Connie Kirchberg and Mark Hendrickx
Enlightened Racism: The Cosby Show, Audiences and the Myth of the American Dream by Sut and Justin Lewis Jhally (Ch. 5)
Mythmakers of the American Dream: The Nostalgic Vision in Popular Culture by Wiley Lee Umphlett
Graham and Taylor: The American Dream Revisited in Eddy, no. 4, Summer 1974
History, an American Dream in Women and Performance, v. 1, no. 2, Winter 1984
Article Index
Quotes and Song Lyrics:
Motivational Quotes including George Eliot and Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lyrics to Sunny Afternoon by The Kinks
Lyrics to Papa was a Rodeo by The Magnetic Fields
Lyrics to Free by Cat Power
Abraham Lincoln Quote on free labor
The Buffalo by Neca Stoller
Various Links and Quotes
Speeches:
The American Dream from the Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Ballot of the Bullet by Malcolm X
Articles about the Correlation between Economy and the American Dream
Washington Post article on the link between the economy and an attraction to your work
Income Picture by Jared Bernstein and Elise Gould
Restoring the American Dream: A Working Families’
Agenda for America by Thomas A. Kochan: Summary and Chapter 1
Synopsis of Roger Weisberg’s Waging a Living plus an interview with Weisberg
It’s not Easy being a billionaire from the Prospecting Professor
Can You Imagine This Country? By Chuck Baldwin
What Happens to the American Dream in a Recession by Katharine Q. Seelye (New York Times article)
New Men: The Heroic Soldier Narrative in American Advertisements During World War II
Articles about the American Dream in General:
The Origin of the term “American Dream”
What is the American Dream? Lesson Plan
Letter III What is an American from Letters from an American Farmer
Concluding Remarks in American Notes by Charles Dickens
The American Dream –
Introduction: A Dream Country
Stark Reality of the American Dream by Humphrey Hawksley
Social Mobility and the American Dream: What Do College Students Believe? By Deborah Abowitz
Literary Criticism:
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Evolving American Dream: The “Pursuit of Happiness”
in Gatsby, Tender is the Night, and the Last Tycoon by John Callahan
Websites-advertising
http://ibiblio.org/pub/electronic-publications/stay-free/archives/18/war.html
http://pzrservices.typepad.com/advertisingisgoodforyou/2006/09/advertising_dur.html
http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adaccess/browse/
http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adaccess.W0287/pg.1/
http://members.cox.net/ww2guy/kn.html
Filed under: Camera's Eyes | Tags: Ambition, American Dream, Camera's Eye, Kristin Marting
Jack Maurer
(written by Rachel Crawford, inspired by a Studs Terkel interview in his American Dreams book)
Chicago Monday. Black Monday. 1987. Standing there in the pit packed like sardines like some frozen stunned pack of animals watching
And the Dow goes down down down it goes
panic confusion fear ripples through the hoard of suits, – masters of the universe except now – like a boulder thrown in a still pond smooth as glass becomes chaos
sweat stains and shallow breathing my shirt feels hot tight against my neck and I think and I whisper I say to everyone and no one get me out of here get me out but I stay
the promise life is good America is good the marketplace is good and all of us we just stared still and silent and afraid and maybe they lied, yes, maybe so
it’s like the floor falls out stomach in your knees it’s like you see – Depression, The Great – 1929 in your nightmares but realize you are awake
being born in the 50’s doesn’t mean being born in an amusement park.
After . the anxiety eases a little but once you have it you can’t shake it off waiting for you around the corner and you live your life with your expensive things
your baubles
your new car
like this thing or that daddy please can I, you say yes honey for you anything, the spectre of loss hot behind your eyes
Filed under: Narrative | Tags: About, American Dream, Kristin Marting, Lush Valley, Tal Yarden, Yana Landowne
This is the LUSH VALLEY blog. An interactive live art event, LUSH VALLEY invites audience members to abandon their spectator hats and become key players in shaping an alternative national ethos through real-time video interviews, citizenship tests, lectures, voting and historical hallucinations. Have a hand in building LUSH VALLEY, your own idyllic-yet-realizable society, and rediscover this country as the home of differences.
LUSH VALLEY is set in a government office staffed by eight immigration officers who process audience members nightly for citizenship to Lush Valley. The LUSH VALLEY experience features everything from intimate monologues delivered to individual audience members to surreal comic book group scenes and choreographed sequences of bureaucratic alienation performed by the entire company. Within this complex framework, a narrative built around the hopes and worries of a cadre of immigration officers transpires as they question each other’s motives and ethics in granting and denying citizenship. During the show each night, real-time audience feedback shared through person-to-person interaction, texting, on-site kiosks and online social media is incorporated into the proceedings. This production has evolved through a very open, public collaboration that helped define the project through online dialogue (via blog and facebook), in-person community think tanks, video interviews and public art actions.
Director Kristin Marting, dramaturg Yana Landowne, and video artist Tal Yarden (along with writers Robert Lyons and Qui Nguyen and designers Oana Botez, Chris Kuhl, Clint Ramos, and Jane Shaw) created LUSH VALLEY, a live art participatory performance that chases the elusive idea of the American Dream. The performance began in April 2010 with our first think tank & continued through our premiere on September 11, 2011 at HERE. We are currently planning a tour to 3-5 American cities leading up to the 2012 election.




