D. Miller's reading list: 11.08

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 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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