Reading

Reading

28/02/10 16:17
D. Miller's reading list: 3.1.10

Note: I highly recommend the following books. They have been enormously inspirational. For what it’s worth, beginning at the bottom, this is pretty much the order in which I read them. Most recent is at the top.
  • The Everyday - Stephen Johnstone
  • The Intangibilities of Form: Skill & Deskilling in Art after the Readymade - John Roberts
  • Secret Lives of Great Artists: What Your Teachers Never Told You About Master Painters & Sculptors - Elizabeth Lunday
  • Convergence Culture: Where Old & New Media Collide - Henry Jenkins
  • Appropriation - David Evans
  • Abstract Expressionism - David Anfam
  • The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism - Susan Landauer
  • Abstract Expressionism - Barbara Hess
  • Graffiti Kings: New York City Mass Transit Art of the 1970's - Jack Stewart
  • Minimal Art - Daniel Marzona
  • The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art and Music Drive New York City - Elizabeth Currid
  • Conceptual Art - Daniel Marzona
  • The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art - Martha Buskirk
  • Marx for Beginners - Ruis (Eduardo del Rio)
  • Studio Thinking - Lois Hetland, Ellen Winner, Shirley Veenema & Kimberly M. Sheridan
  • Teach Yourself Postmodernism - Glenn Ward
  • Eretica: The Transcendent and the Profane in Contemporary Art - Demetrio Paparoni
  • Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art & Complicity - Johanna Drucker
  • Introducing Modernism - Chris Rodrigues & Chris Garratt
  • This is Not A Pipe - Michel Foucault
  • The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge - Jean-Francois Lyotard
  • Introducing Postmodernism: A Graphic Guide to Cutting - Edge Thinking - Richard Appignanesi & Chris Garratt
  • Postmodernism For Beginners - Jim Powell
  • The Transfiguaration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art - Arthur Danto
  • Heidegger, Habermas & the Mobile Phone - George Myerson
  • New Philosophies for New Media - Mark Hansen
  • The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism - Pericles Lewis
  • Mass Mediauras: Form Technics Media - Samuel Weber
  • Beer, Art and Philosophy: A Memoir - Tom Marioni
  • Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction - Christopher Butler
  • Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction - Catherine Belsey
  • What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images - W.J.T. Mitchell
  • Camera Lucida - Roland Barthes
  • Gender Matters in Art Education - Martin Rosenberg & Frances Thurber
  • Engaging Visual Culture - Karen Keifer-Boyd & Jane Maitland-Gholson
  • The Politics of Aesthetics - Jacques Ranciere
  • Six Memos for the Next Millennium - Italo Calvino
  • Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture - Michael Kammen
  • Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics - Hal Foster
  • The Methodologies of Art: An Introduction - Laurie Schneider Adams
  • Roland Barthes - Graham Allen
  • Ways of Seeing - John Berger
  • Designing Pornotopia: Travels in Visual Culture - Rick Poyner
  • Visual Culture - Richard Howells
  • A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future - Daniel Pink
  • The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths - Rosalind Krauss
  • Approaches to Understanding Visual Culture - Malcolm Barnard
  • Visual Culture: The Study of the Visual after the Cultural Turn - Margaret Dikovitskaya
  • The Theory Toolbox: Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences - Jeffrey Nealon & Susan Searls Giroux
  • The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture - Edited by Hal Foster
  • Air Guitar: Essays on Art And Democracy - Dave Hickey
  • But is it Art? - Cynthia Freeland
  • Bitches, Bimbos & Ballbreakers: The Guerilla Girls’ Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes - The Guerilla Girls
  • The Guerilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art - The Guerilla Girls
  • Graphic Design as Communication - Malcolm Barnard
  • Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting - Norman Bryson
  • A History of Art Education: Intellectual and Social Currents in Teaching the Visual Arts - Arthur Efland
  • Instant Art Instant Culture: The Unspoken Policy for American Schools - Laura Chapman
  • Visual Culture in the Art Class: Case Studies - Edited by Paul Duncum
  • No More Second Hand Art: Awakening the Artist Within - Peter London
  • The Complete Lanier: A Professional Profile - James Lanier
  • The World of Art Education According to Lanier - Vincent Lanier
  • The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty - Dave Hickey
  • Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime - Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
  • The Arts & the Creation of Mind - Elliott Eisner
  • Art & Cognition: Integrating the Visual Arts in the Curriculum - Arthur Efland
  • Rethinking Curriculum in Art - Marilyn G. Stewart & Sydney R. Walker
  • Thinking Through Aesthetics - Marilyn G. Stewart
  • Roots of Art Education Practice - Mary Anne Stankiewicz
  • The End of Art - Donald Kuspit
  • No More Rules: Graphic Design and Postmodernism - Rick Poyner
  • After the End of Art - Arthur Danto
  • Picturing Texts - Lester Faigley, Diana George, Anna Palchik, Cynthia Selfe
  • The Visual Culture Reader (2nd Ed.) - Edited by Nicholas Mirzoef
  • Has Modernism Failed (2nd Ed.) - Suzi Gablick
  • The Reenchantment of Art - Suzi Gablick
  • What Happened to Art Criticism? - James Elkins
  • Why Art Cannot Be Taught - James Elkins
  • Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction - James Elkins
  • Semiotics and Visual Culture: Sights, Signs, and Significance - Edited by Deborah Smith-Shank
  • Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture - Marita Sturken & Lisa Cartwright
  • An Introduction to Visual Culture - Nicholas Mirzoeff
  • Teaching Visual Culture - Kerry Freedman
  • Graphic Design for the 21st Century - Charlotte & Peter Fiell
  • Assessment in Art Education - Donna Kay Beattie
  • Postmodernism - Eleanor Heartney
  • After Modern Art 1945-2000 - David Hopkins
  • Art on the Edge and Over - Linda Weintraub
  • The End of Print - Lewis Blackwell & David Carson
  • Art Education: Issues in Postmodernist Pedagogy - Roger Clark
  • Art Education: Content & Practice in a Postmodern Era - James Hutchens & Marianne Suggs
  • Postmodern Art Education: An Approach to Curriculum - Arthur Efland, Kerry Freedman, Patricia Stuhr

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