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,

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*

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 onPostmodern
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,

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, 2nd edition.

* "The German Ideology"

McEvilley, T. Art and Otherness: Crisis in Cultural Identity. N.Y.
1992

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.