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.