Reading List
• Alexander Alberro, Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity
• Svetlana Alpers, The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century
• Svetlana Alpers, The Making of Rubens
• Svetlana Alpers, Rembrandt’s Enterprise: The Studio and the Market
• Kwame Anthony Appiah, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
• J. G. Ballard, Concrete Island: A Novel
• Gregory Battcock, ed., Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology
• Michael Baxandall, Patterns of Intention: On the Historical Explanation of Pictures
• Yve-Alain Bois, Painting as Model
• Pierre Bourdieu, The Field of Cultural Production
• Nicolas Bourriaud, Postproduction
• Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Aesthetics
• Peter Burger, Theory of the Avant-Garde
• T.J. Clark, Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution
• T.J. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life
• T.J. Clark, Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism
• T.J. Clark, The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing
• Bob Colacello, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up
• Jonathan Crary, Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century
• Douglas Crimp, On the Museum’s Ruins
• Thomas Crow, Modern Art in the Common Culture
• Thomas Crow, The Rise of the Sixties
• Thierry De Duve, ed., The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp
• Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
• Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park
• Hal Foster, The Return of the Real
• Hal Foster, Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics
• Hal Foster, Compulsive Beauty
• Hal Foster, ed., Vision and Visuality
• Hal Foster, ed., The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture
• Francis Frascina and Jonathan Harris, eds., Art in Modern Culture: An Anthologyof Critical Texts
• Michael Fried, Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews
• Clement Greenberg, The Collected Essays and Criticism: vols. 1-4
• Serge Guilbaut, How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom, and the Cold War
• Dick Hebdige, Subculture: The Meaning of Style
• Dave Hickey, Air Guitar: Essay on Art & Democracy
• Dave Hickey, The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty
• Andreas Huyssen, After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism
• Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
• David Joselit, After Art
• Allan Kaprow, Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life
• John Kelsey, Rich Texts: Selected Writing for Art
• Rosalind Krauss, The Optical Unconscious
• Rosalind Krauss, The Originality of the Avant-Garde & Other Modernist Myths
• Rosalind Krauss, Passages in Modern Sculpture
• Miwon Kwon, One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity
• Michael Leja, Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s
• Lucy Lippard, Pop Art (World of Art)
• Lucy Lippard, ed., Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972
• Libby Lumpkin, Deep Design
• Steven Madoff, ed., Pop Art: A Critical Introduction
• James Meyer, Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties
• Ursula Meyer, ed., Conceptual Art
• W.J.T. Mitchell, Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation
• W.J.T. Mitchell, Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology
• Robert Motherwell, ed., The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology
• Bob Nickas, Theft is Vision
• Linda Nochlin, Realism
• Barbara Novak, Nature and Culture
• Craig Owens, Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture
• Hans Richter, Dada: Art & Anti-Art (World of Art)
• Burkhard Riemschneider, ed., Art at the Turn of the Millennium
• Anne Rorimer, New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality
• Harold Rosenberg, Tradition of the New
• Jerry Saltz, Seeing Out Loud: The Voice Art Columns Fall 1998 – Winter 2003
• Jerry Saltz, Seeing Out Louder
• Olav Velthuis, Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings on the Market for Contemporary Art
• Brian Wallis, ed., Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation
• Lawrence Weschler, Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder
• Lawrence Weschler, Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
• Heinrich Wolfflin, Principles of Art History
