Reading List

READING LISTS FOR PAINTERS

From Art Info:  http://artinfo.com/news/story/804318/40-books-that-every-artist-should-own-part-i

From the faculty of the SCAD painting department:
Periodicals:
Artforum                New York Times (Friday & Sunday issues)
Art in America                The Village Voice (weekly)
Art News                October (quarterly)
Art Papers (for GA coverage)        Art Journal (CAA publication)
Dialogue                Flash Art
Frieze                    Modern Painters
New American Painting
Contemporary Art.
Lightness of Theory

Essays:
Alloway, Lawrence.     “The Arts and the Mass Media”
Baudrillard, Jean.     “Disneyworld Company”
Barthes, Roland.     “The Death of the Author.”
Benjamin, Walter.     “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
Bochner, Mel & Meyers, James. “How Can You Defend Making Paintings Now?”
Bois, Yves-Alain.      “Painting: The Task of Mourning”
Buchloh, Benjamin.     “A Note on Gerhard Richter’s October 18, 1977”
Debord, Guy.         “Society of the Spectacle”
de Duve, Thierry.     “When Form Becomes Attitude—And Beyond”
Fogle, Douglas.     “Painting At the Edge of the World”
Foucault, Michel.     “What is an Author”
Fraser, Andrea.     “How To Provide An Artistic Service”
Fried, Michael.         “Art and Objecthood”
Greenberg, Clement.     “Avant-Garde and Kitsch” and “Modernist Painting”
Halley, Peter.         “On Line”
Heartfield, James.     “Postmodernism and the Death of the Subject”
Iriagaray, Luce.         “The Power of Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine’
Kraus, Rosanlind.     “Sculpture in the Expanded Field” and “Notes On the Index”
Kristeva, Julia.         “Women’s Time”
Lyotard, Jean-Francois. “Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?”
Melville, Shephen.     “Counting/As/Painting”
Minh-Ha, Trinh.         “All-Owning Spectatorship”
Richter, Gerhard.    “Interview with Benjamin Buchloh”
Zizek, Slajov.         “On Belief”

Books:
Armstrong, Phillip.      As Painting: Division & Displacement
Barth, Roland.         Mythologies
Berger, John.         Ways of Seeing
Baudrillard, Jean.     Simulacra and Simulation, The Illusion of the End
Benjamin, Walter.     Illuminations, The Arcades Project
Bogue, Ronald        Deleuze on Music, Painting and the Arts
Bois, Yves-Alain.     Painting as Model
Bourriaud, Nicholas.     Relational Aesthetics
Buskirk, Martha        The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art
Danto, Arthur.         After the End of Art
Debotton         Status Anxiety
Derrida, Jacques.     The Truth in Painting
Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation
Eagleton, Terry        After Theory
Eco, Umberto     The History of Beauty
Elkins, James.      What Painting Is; Why Art Cannot Be Taught; The Painting Stares Back: Pictures and Tears
Fogle, Douglas (editor).  Painting at the Edge of the World (Walker Art Center – exhibition)
Foster, Hal.          The Return of the Real
Art Since 1900:  Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism (also by
Krauss, Bois, Buchloh)
Foucault, Michel.     The Foucault Reader  (Paul Rabinow, Editor)
Fried, Michael.          Art & Objecthood: Essays & Reviews
Fried, Michael         “Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot”

Gates, Henry Louis.     The Dictionary of Global Culture
Godfrey, Tony        Conceptual Art (Art and Ideas)
Goldberg, Roselee    Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present
Greenberg, Clement.     Collected Essays & Criticism, Vols 1-4
Art and Culture: Critical Essays
Henri, Robert.          The Art Spirit
Hickey, Dave.          Air Guitar
hooks, bell.          Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations
Feminist Theory from Margin to Center
Jameson, Fredric    Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Kocur, Zoya        Theory in Contemporary Art Since 1985
Kraus, Rosalind.      The Originality of the Avant-Garde & Other Modernist Myths
The Optical Unconscious
Lippard, Lucy.         Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object
Lord, James. A Giacometti Portrait.

Lyotard, Jean-Francois. The Postmodern Condition: A Report of Knowledge
The Inhuman: Reflections on Time
De Oliveira        Installation Art in the New Millennium: The Empire of the Senses
Osborne, Peter        Conceptual Art (Themes and Movements)
Pollock, Greselda    Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology
De Rynck        How to Read a Painting
Richter, Gerhard    The Daily Practice of Painting:  Writings 1962 – 1993
Rush, Michael        New Media in Arts, Second Edition
Scheldahl, Peter.      The Hydrogen Jukebox
Schwabsky, Barry.      Vitamin P (New Perspectives in Painting)
Thornton, Sarah    Seven Days in the Art World
Weintraub, Linda    In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art
West, Cornel        Race Matters
Wilcox            Blue and Yellow Don’t Make Green

Anthologies:
Foster, Hal (ed.) The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays in Postmodern Culture
Gayford, M. & Wright, K. (ed.) The Grove Book of Art Writing
Harris, Jonathan (ed.)    Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Painting : Hybridity, Hegemony, Historicism
Harrison, C & Wood, P. (ed.) Art in Theory: 1900-2000
Siegel, Jeanne (ed.) Art Talk: The Early 80’s
Stiles, K. & P. Selz (ed.) Theories & Documents of Contemporary Art
Tucker, Marcia (ed.) Discourses: Conversations in Postmodern Art & Culture, Vols. 1-3
Wallis, Brian (ed.) Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation
Wallis, Brian (ed.) Blasted Allegories: An Anthology of Writing by Contemporary Artists

Websites (asterisk indicates membership required):

www.geoform.net
artsjournal.com (free online current events newsletter)
www.pbs.org/art21/
www.artincontext.com
www.artdeadlines.com *
www.artnet.com *
www.artkrush.com
www.coagula.com
www.nyfa.com (artists’ resource)
www.thepaintingcenter.com
www.senate.gov (painting collection of the U.S. Senate)
www.artsstudio.com (guide to copying old masters)
www.threepints.com (artist’s site displaying a painting per day)
www.stolenart.be (lists international artwork that is missing or stolen)
www.societyillustrators.org (compilation of paintings and illustrations)
www.ibiblio.org (web museum of contemporary art)
www.wccfa.com (painting conservation site)
idratherbeinthestudio.com (self-promotion)
www.twocoatsofpaint.com

theartstory.org

Museum Sites:
www.moma.org (The Museum of Modern Art)
www.metmuseum.org (The Metropolitan Museum)
www.sfmoma.org (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
www.whitney.org (The Whitney Museum of Art)
www.lacma.org (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
www.mcachicago.org (Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art)
www.guggenheim.org (Guggenheim Museum)
www.diacenter.org (Dia:Chelsea & Dia:Beacon)
www.jmoma.org (Jacksonville Museum of Art)

SCAD subscribes to Jstor and ARTstor, providing the SCAD community with access to these resources.

Professional Practices & Related Resources
Legal Guide for Visual Artists by Tad Crawford
Art Marketing 101 by Constance Smith
I’d Rather Be in The Studio by Alyson Stanfield
Professional Artist Magazine (subscription discount available for students)
The Critique Handbook by Kendall Buster and Paual Crawford
The Artists Guide by Jackie Battenfield

Technique:
The Painter’s Handbook by Gottsegen (1993).

Other resources:
The Golden Section: Nature’s Greatest Secret by Scott Olsen (2006)

Writing:
Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White