Major List

Comprehensive Exams Reading List

Contemporary Art and Theory

 

I.  Art Movements and Exhibitions'''

 

Alberro, Alexander. ''Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity. ''Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001.

Altshuler, Bruce. The Avant-Garde in Exhibition: New Art in the 20th Century. New York: Abrams, 1998.

Battcock, Gregory. Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995.

Bishop, Claire. Installation Art: A Critical History. London: Tate, 2005.

Boettger, Suzan. Earthworks: Art and the Landscape of the Sixties. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003.

Bois, Yve-Alain, and Rosalind Krauss. Formless. Cambridge, MA: Zone Books and MIT Press, 1997.

Bourriaud, Nicolas. Relational Aesthetics. Dijon, France: Les Presses du Réel, 2002.

Buchloh, Benjam H. D. Neo-Avantgarde and the Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003.

Clearwater, Bonnie. Defining t''he Nineties: Consensus-Making in New York, Miami, and Los Angeles. Miami, ''FL: MOCA, 1996.

Crane, Susan, ed. ''Museums and Memory. ''Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2000.

Crimp, Douglas. ''Our Kind of Movie: The Films of Andy Warhol. ''Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012.

Crow, Thomas. The Rise of the Sixties: American and European Art in the Era of Dissent. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005.

Debord, Guy. The Society of the Spectacle. Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. New York: Zone Books, 1995.

Deleuze, Gilles. Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, Translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986.

De Oliviera, Nicolas, and Nicola Oxley, Michael Petry, eds. Installation Art. London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.

Dyer, Richard. Now You See It. ''Routledge, 2002.

Flood, Richard and Frances Morris, eds. ''Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1972. ''Minneapolis: Walker Art Gallery, 2002.

Godfrey, Tony. ''Conceptual Art. New York: Phaidon Press, 1998''

Greenberg, Clement. “Modernist Painting.” ''Forum. ''Lectures (Voices of America). ''Washingtom, DC, 1960.

Hall, Doug, Sally Jo Fifer, eds. ''Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art. New York: Aperture in Association with the Bay Area Video Coalition,'' 1990.

Hung, Wu. Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Kaprow, Allan. Assemblage, Environments, and Happenings. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1966.

Katz, Jonathan David, ed. Hide/Seek'''

Kellein, T. and J. Hendricks. Fluxus. London and N.Y., 1988.

Krauss, Rosalind. ''The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths. ''MIT Press: 1986.

Krauss, Rosalind. Passages in Modern Sculpture. New York: Viking Press, 1977.

LeWitt, Sol. “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art.” Artforum 5 (Summer 1967): 79-83.

Leighton, Tanya, ed. ''Art and the Moving Image: A Critical Reader. ''London: Tate Museum and Afterall Press, 2008.

Madoff, Steven, ed. Pop Art: A Critical History. Berkeley, CA: University of California, 1997.

Massey, Anne. The Independent Group: Modernism and Mass Culture in Britain, 1945-1959. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996.

McDonough, Tom. Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004.

Meyer, James. Minimalism.

Morgan, Stuart, and Frances Morris. Rites of Passage: Art at the End of the Century. London: Tate Museum, 1996

O’Doherty, Brian. Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space. Berkeley and Los Angeles: The University of California Press, 1999.

Ratcliff, Carter. ''Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art, 1965-1975. ''New York: Allworth Press, 2000.

Rorimer, Anne. New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality. London: Thames & Hudson, 2001.

Rosenberg, Harold. “The American Action Painters.” Art News 51:8 (September 1952): 22ff.

Rosenthal, Norman, Brooks Adams, eds. ''Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection. ''Thames and Hudson: 1998.

Said, Edward. Orientalism. New York: Vintage Book, 1979.

Sandford, Mariellen R. Sanford, ed. Happenings and Other Acts. New York and London: Routledge, 1995.

Sandler, Irving. ''Art of the Postmodern Era: From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s''. New York: Westview Press, 1996.

Sloman, Paul. ''Contemporary Art in the Middle East. ''London: Black Dog Publishing, 2010.

Stam, Robert and Toby Miller, eds. Film and Theory: An Anthology. London: Blackwell, 2000.

Steinberg, Leo. ''Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth Century Art''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972.

Stimson, Blake and Alexander Alberro, eds. ''Conceptual Art: An Anthology of Critical Writings and Documents. ''Cambridge, MIT Press, 2000.

Tomkins, Calvin. Post to Neo- The Art World of the 1980s. New York: Penguin, 1988.

Vanderlinden, Barbara. ''The Manifesta Decade: Debates on Contemporary Art Exhibitions and Biennials in Post-Wall Europe. ''Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006.

Wilson, Fred. ''Mining the Museum.''

Young, Louis. ''The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s. ''New York: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1990.

Youngblood, Gene. ''Expanded Cinema''. New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1970.

 

Theories and Methods

Adams, Hazard, ed. ''Critical Theory Since 1965''. Tallahassee: University Presses of Florida, 1989.

Althusser, Louis. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.” In Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays. London: New Left Books, 1971.

Arendt, Hannah. ''The Human Condition''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958.

Atkins, Robert. ''ArtSpeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to the Present''. New York: Abbeville Press,.

———. ''ArtSpoke: A Guide to Modern Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1848-1944''. New York: Abbeville Press, 1993.

Alberro, Alexander, and Sabeth Buchmann. Art after Conceptual Art. London and Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006.

Barthes, Roland. ''Camera Lucida, ''trans. Richard Howard. New York: Hill and Wang, 1981.

Barthes, Roland. “The Death of the Author,” in Image-Music-Text, 142-148. Translated by Stephen Heath. New York: Hill and Wang, 1977.

Baudrillard, Jean, Mark Poster, ed. ''Selected Writings. ''Stanford: Standford University Press, 1988.

'''Benjamin, Walter, and Hannah Arendt. Illuminations. 1st Schocken paperback edition. New York: Schocken Books, 1969.'''

Bruno, Giuliana. Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film. London ; New York: Verso, 2002.

———. ''Public Intimacy: Architecture and the Visual Arts''. Writing Architecture Series. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2007.

Bryson, Norman. “Semiology and Visual Interpretation,” in Visual Theory: Painting and Interpretation, 61-73. Edited by Norman Bryson, Michael Ann Holly, and Keith Moxey. New York: Harper Collins, 1991.

Buchloh, Bejamin HD. ''Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955-1975. ''MIT Press, 2001.

Burgin, Victor. ''The End of Art Theory: Criticism and Postmodernity. ''Atlandtic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International, 1986.

Cage, John. ''Silence: Lectures and Writings''. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1966.

Danto, Arthur C. ''After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History''. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

De George, Richard T., and Fernande M. De George. The Structuralists: From Marx to Lévi-Strauss. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y: Anchor Books, 1972.

De Saussure, Ferdinand. ''Course in General Linguistics''. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.

Debord, Guy. The Society of the Spectacle. Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. New York: Zone Books 1995.

Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, transl. Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987.

Derrida, Jacques. ''The Truth in Painting''. Translated by Geoff Benninton and Ian McLeod. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Derrida, Jacques. Of Grammatology. 

Dyer, Richard. ''The Matter of Images: Essays on Representations. ''New York: Routledge, 1993.

Eagleton, Terry''. After Theory''. New York: A Member of the Perseus Books Group, 2004.

Eagleton, Terry. “Post-Structuralism.” in Literary Theory: An Introduction, 79-106. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

Fernie, Eric, ed. Art History and Its Methods: A Critical Anthology. London: Phaidon Press Ltd, 1995.

Foster, Hal. ''Compulsive Beauty''. October Books. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1993.

Foster, Hal. Discussion in Contemporary Culture. Seattle: Bay Press, 1987.

___________, ed. ''Postmodern Culture''. London: Pluto Press, 1985.

___________, ed. ''The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture''. New York: The New Press, 2002.

___________. The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996.

Fried, Michael. ''Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

González, Jennifer A. ''Subject to Display: Reframing Race in Contemporary Installation Art''. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2008.

'''Gordon, Avery. “Ghostly Matters : Haunting and the Sociological Imagination.” Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.'''

Greenberg, Clement. ''The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volumes 1-4'', edited by John O’Brian. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Harrison, Charles, and Paul Wood, eds. Art in Theory, 1900-2000. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003.

Henretta, James A. “Social History as Lived and Written.” The American Historical Review 84, no. 5 (1979): 1293–1322.

Höller, Carsten, Lisa Phillips, Massimiliano Gioni, Gary Carrion-Murayari, and Jenny Moore. Experience. New York: Skira Rizzoli : In association with New Museum, 2011.

Huyssen, Andrea. ''After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism. ''Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1986.

Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991.

Krauss, Rosalind E. The Optical Unconscious. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1993.

Kristeva, Julia. ''Strangers to Ourselves''. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.

Lacan, Jacques. Écrits: A Selection. Transl. Bruce Fink. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2006.

Lavers, Annette. Roland Barthes, Structuralism and After. London: Methuen & Co, 1982.

Leak, Andrew. Barthes, Mythologies. Critical Guides to French Texts 107. London: Grant and Cutler, 1994.

Lippard, Lucy R. Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory. 1st ed. New York: Pantheon Books, 1983.

Lyotard, Jean-Francois, Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi, trans. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge.

Marx, Karl. The Marx-Engels Reader, edited by Robert Tucker. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1978, 2ndedition. McEvilley, T. Art and Otherness: Crisis in Cultural Identity. N.Y. 1992
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Moxey, Keith P. F. The Practice of Theory: Poststructuralism, Cultural Politics, and Art History''. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.

Pinder, Kimberly, ed. ''Race-ing Art History: Critical Readings in Race and Art History. ''New York: Routledge, 2002.

Rancière, Jacques. The Emancipated Spectator, Translated by Gregory Elliot. London: Verso, 2009.

Robinson, Hilary, ed. Feminism-Art-Theory: An Anthology, 1968-2000. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

Silverman, Kaja. The Subject of Semiotics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. 

Spector, Jack. “The State of Psychoanalytic Research in Art History.” The Art Bulletin 70, no. 1 (1988): 49–76.

Stallabrass, Julian. ''Art Incorporated. ''London: Verso, 2004.

Williams, Raymond. “Cultural Theory,” in Marxism and Literature, 75-141. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations. Translated by G.E.M. Anscombe. Oxford: Blackwell, 1963.

Žižek, Slavoj. ''Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture. ''Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1991.

Feminist/Queer Art Histories

Butler, Cornelia H., and Lisa Gabrielle Mark, eds. WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution''. Cambridge,'' MA: MIT Press, 2007.

Butler, Judith''. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.'' New York: Routledge, 1999.

Ellenzweig, Allen. The Homoerotic Photograph: Male Images from Durieu/Delacroix to

Mapplethorpe. Between Men-between Women. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992.

Jones, Amelia. ''Body Art: Performing the Subject. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.''

Lord, Catherine. Art and Queer Culture. Phaidon Press, 2013.

Meyer, Richard. ''Outlaw Representations: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth Century American Art. Oxford U''niversity Press, 2002. 

Molesworth, Helen. “Cleaning Up in the 1970s: The Work of Judy Chicago, Mary Kelley and Mierle Laderman Ukeles.” ''Rewriting Conceptual Art. ''Chicago, IL: Reaktion Books, 1999.

Nochlin, Linda, and Maura Reilly. Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader. New York, New York: Thames & Hudson, 2015.

Parker, Rozsika, and Griselda Pollock. Old Mistresses: Women, Art, and Ideology. 1st American ed. New York: Pantheon Books, 1981.

Pollock, Griselda''. Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity, and Histories of Art. ''Psychology Press, 2012.

Reed, Christopher. Art and Homosexuality: A History of Ideas. Oxford University Press, 2011.

Reilly, Maura, and Linda Nochlin. Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art. New York: Merrell, 2007.

Robinson, Hilary, ed. '' Feminism-Art-Theory: An Anthology, 1968-2000. ''Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.