Reading List

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