Slade School of Fine Art Student Handbook For Summer School Foundation Method and Materials
Reading List
Below is a comprehensive list for background reading, which we hope you will find
interesting and informative. Please select anything you think you might be interested in.
Please note: we do not expect you to read everything on this list- these are
recommendations by staff!
• A Social History of Art Arnold Hauser, Routledge, 1965.
• Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art Katja Kwastek, MIT, 2013.
• After Modern Art 1945 – 2000 David Hopkins, Oxford University Press 2000.
• Art after Modernism: Rethinking Representation Brian Wallis, David R Godine Publishers, 1993.
• Art: Key Contemporary Thinkers Diarmud Costello and Jonathan Vickery (eds), Berg, 2007.
• Art Theory- A Very Short Introduction Cynthia Freeland, Oxford Uni Press, 2001.
• Art in Theory 1900 – 2000 Charles Harrison, Paul Wood (eds), Blackwell, 2002.
• Art Since 1900 Y.Alain-Bois; A.Foster; B.Buchlok; R.Krauss; Thames & Hudson, 2005.
• A Voyage on the North Sea: Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition. Krauss, R. New York, Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2000.
• Conceptual Art (Art and Ideas) Tony Godfrey, Phaidon Press, 1998.
• Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction Julian Stallabrass, Oxford University Press, 2006.
• Farewell to an Idea T J Clark, Yale University Press, 2001.
• Formless- A Users Guide. Yve-Alain Bois and a. R. Krauss New York, Zone Books, 1997.
• Inner Vision: An Exploration of Art & the Brain Semir Zeki, Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Interviews with American Artists David Sylvester, Chatto and Windus, 2001
• Key writers on Art: The Twentieth Century Chris Murray ed.; Routledge,
2003.
• Postmodern Currents Margot Lovejoy, 1997.
• Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 Lucy R. Lippard University of California Press 1997.
• The History of Art H W Janson, Anthony F Janson, Thames & Hudson, 2001.
• The Unknown Masterpiece and other stories Honor de Balzac, Dover, 1999.
• Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings. Stiles and Selz, University of California Press, 1996.
• The Medium is the Message McLuhan, M. 1964.
• This is Modern Art Matthew Collings, Weidenfeld Nicolson, 2000.
• Time - Documents in Contemporary Art ed Amelia Groom. Whitechapel Gallery.
• Under Blue Cup Krauss, R. (2011). MIT Press.
• Words to Be Looked At; Language in 1960's Art. Kotz, L. (2007 Massachusetts, MIT Press.
Drawing
• Drawing- A Contemporary Approach Teel Sale and Claudia Betti. Harcourt Brace College Publishers 1986.
• Drawing- A Survey of Drawing- the primary Means of Expression ed Tania Kovats Black Dog Publication 2003.
• Drawing Now. Eight Propositions. Moma Catalogue, 2005.
• The Stage of Drawing- Gesture & Act Avis Newman, Catherine de Szegher, Tate Publication 2003.
• Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing (Themes) Jordan Kantor, Igor Zabel and Emma Dexter 2005.
• Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing Marina Cashdan, Carina Krause and Gavin Delahunty 2013.
Performance
• The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art Dominic Johnson, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
• The Twentieth Century Performance Reader Teresa Brayshaw, Noel Witts,Routledge 2013.
• Yvonne Rainer: the Mind Is a Muscle. Afterall, Catherine Wood 2007.
• Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship. Claire Bishop. Verso Books, 2012.
• Cally Spooner - On False Tears and Outsourcing. New Museum of Contemporary Art,U.S, 2016
• http://moussemagazine.it/kathy-noble-tim-griffin-on-performance-2012/
• http://www.galeriejosephtang.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20.-MARIE-DE-BRUGEROLLE-D.pdf
Sculpture
• Beyond Modern Sculpture Jack Burnham, Braziller, US, 1982.
• Installation Art. A Critical History Claire Bishop, New York: Routledge, 2005.
• Passages in Modern Sculpture Rosalind Krauss, M.I.T. 1981.
• Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words: Writings and Interviews. Bruce Nauman and Janet Kraynak, 2005.
• Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin. Lawrence Weschler and Robert Irwin, Berkeley: U of California, 2008.
• Site, Space and Intervention Erika Suderburg Minneapolis: U of Minnesota, 2000.
• The Absolute Bourgeois T J Clark, Thames & Hudson, 1982.
• The Language of Sculpture William Tucker, Thames & Hudson, 1988.
• The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 To Today Roxana
Marcoci. Essays by Roxana Marcoci, Geoffrey Batchen and, Tobia Bezzola, New York : Museum of Modern Art, 2010.
• The Sculptural Imagination Alex Potts, Yale U.P., 2000.
• Understanding Installation Art: From Duchamp to Holzer Munich: Prestel, 2003.
• Vitamin 3D, new perspectives in Sculpture and Installation Phaidon, 2014.
Painting
• Francis Bacon; The Logic of Sensation Gilles Deleuze, Continuum,2004.
• Looking at the Overlooked: Four essays on Still Life Norman Bryson, Reaktion Books, 2001.
• To Be Someone Mary Heilmann, Prestel Publishing 2007.
• Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting Barry Schwabsky, Phaidon Press.
Painting Materials and Methods
• The Artists Handbook of Materials and Techniques Ralph Mayer Yale Uni Press 5th ed.
• The Materials of the Artist and their use in Painting Max Doerner, Harcourt, 1984.
• Craftsman’s Handbook C D Cennini, Dover, 1967.
Colour
• Colour and Meaning John Gage, Thames & Hudson, 2000.
• Colour and Culture: Practice and Meaning John Gage, Uni of California Press, 1999.
• Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox Victoria Finlay, Sceptre 2003.
• Interaction of Colour Joseph Albers, Yale University Press, 1971.
• The Elements of Color: Johannes Itten John Wiley and Sons, 1970.
Video Art
• Random Acts – Channel 4 The world's best creative films, from established names and new artistic talent broadcasted on Channel 4 https://vimeo.com/c4randomacts
• Nowness Nowness is a video channel premiering the best in global arts and culture across Art & Design, Culture, Fashion & Beauty, Music and Food & Travel. https://www.nowness.com/
• Ubu Web UbuWeb is a large web-based educational resource for avant-garde material available on the internet, founded in 1996 by poet Kenneth Goldsmith. It offers visual, concrete and sound poetry, expanding to include film and sound art mp3 archives http://www.ubu.com/resources/
• 6X6 6x6 project is an artist-run online platform dedicated to the distribution and promotion of artists' moving image works. Founded by artist Mirelle Borra in 2017. https://6x6project.com/
• Video/Art: The First Fifty Years Barbara London, Paidon, 2020.
• Video Art Michael Rush, Thames & Hudson, 2003.
• Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art Vito Acconci Aperture, 2005.