Suggested Readings for Graduate Students//Artists

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IN PROCESS 

AUTHORS

Walter Benjamin

            Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

            What is Epic Theater?

            Arcades Project

Roland Barthes

            Camera Lucida

            The Responsibility of Forms

            The Death of the Author

Yves-Alain Bois

            Painting As Model

            Formless (with Rosalind Krauss)

Benjamin Buchloh

Michael Fried

            Art and Objecthood

            Absorption and Theatricality

Clement Greenberg

            Avant Garde and Kitsch

            Modernist Painting

Rosalind Krauss

            Passages in Modern Sculpture

Merleau-Ponty

            Cezanne’s Doubt

Thierry de Duve

            Kant after Duchamp

            When forms become Attitude—and Beyond

Susan Sontag

            Against Interpretation           

Roland Barthes

            Camera Lucida

            Mythologies

John Berger

            Ways of Seeing

Martin Heidegger

            Poetry, Language, Thought

Arthur Danto

            After the End of Art

            Unnatural Wonders

David Hickey

            Air Guitar

Hal Foster

            Return of the Real

            Art Since 1900

Lyotard

 The Postmodern Condition: A Report of Knowledge

V. Meyerhold

            On Theater

Viktor Shklovsky

            Art as a Device

Charles Sanders Peirce

            Peirce on Signs

Linda Dalrymple Henderson

            The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art

Charles Harrison

Conceptual Art and Painting: Essays by Art and Language

Modernism, Criticism, Realism: Alternative Context for Art, (with Fred Orton)

John Roberts

The Art of Interruption: Realism, photography and the Everyday

The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art After the Readymade

Anna Chave

Minimalism and the rhetoric of power.

Mira Schor

            Wet

Susan Stewert

            On Longing

            The Open Studio

Rilke

            Letters to a Young Poet

Siri Hustvedt

            Mysteries of the Rectangle

Serge Guilbaut

How New York Stole the idea of Modern Art

Richard Hertz

            Jack Goldstein and the Cal Arts Mafia

THEORY

Deleuze

A Thousand Plateaus (with Guattari)

Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation

Baudrillard

            Simulacra and Simulation

           

Guy Debord

            The Society of the Spectacle

Bourriaud

            PostProduction

            Relational Aesthetics

Foucault

            What is an Author?

            The Foucault Reader

Derrida

            The Truth in Painting

COMPELATION TEXTS//ON THEORY

Jonathan Culler

            Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction

Terry Smith

            What is Contemporary Art?           

Lois Tyson

            Critical Theory: A User-Friendly Guide

Maurice Tuchman

The Spiritual in Abstract Painting

ARTIST TEXTS

Donald Judd

            Specific Objects

Gerhard Richter

            The Daily Practice of Painting

Philip Guston

            Collected Writings, Lectures and Conversations

Agnes Martin

            Writings

Robert Smithson

            Collected Writings

Robert Motherwell

            Collected Writings

BIOGRAPHY

Musa Mayer

            The Night Studio (Philip Guston)

James Lord

            Giacometti: A Portrait (Giacometti)

Susanne Kippenberger

            Kippenberger: The Artist and His Families (Martin Kippenberger)

BOOKS

Schwabsky, Barry.      

Vitamin P (New Perspectives in Painting)

            Vitamin P II

            The Triumph of Painting  (An Art That Eats its Own Head)

Chipp

            Theories in Modern Art

Stiles

            Theories and Documents in Contemporary Art