Contemporary Art Theory Reference List

Adams, Hazard and Leroy Searle. Editors. Critical Theory Since 1965. Tallahassee: Florida State University Press, 1986.

Becker, Carol. Editor. The Subversive Imagination. Artists, Society and Social Responsibility. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Becker, Carol. Zones of Contention: Essays on Art, Institutions, and Gender in Society. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.


Bolton, Richard, ed. Culture Wars. Documents from the Recent Controversies in the Arts. New York: The New Press, 1992. NX735.C84

Bourdieu, Pierre. The Field of Cultural Production. Essays on Art and Literature. Edited and Introduced by Randal Johnson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

Butler, Judith. Excitable Speech. A Politics of the Performative. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Drucker, Johanna. Guest Editor. Special issue of "Art Journal (56) 1, Fall 1997, pp. 30-38. "Digital Reflections: The Dialogue of Art and Technology."

Drucker, Johanna. Theorizing Modernism. Visual Art and the Critical Tradition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. (N6465.M63D78)

Druckery, Timothy. Editor. Electronic Culture: Technology and Visual Representation. New York: Aperture, 1997.

Druckery, Timothy. Editor. Iterations: the New Image. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1993,

Dubin, Steve. Arresting Images: Impolitic Art and Uncivil Actions. New York: Routledge, 1992. (NX 735.D79)

Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory. An Introduction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983.

Edelman, Murray. From Art to Politics. How Artistic Creations Shape Political Conceptions. Chicago. University of Chicago Press, 1995. (N8236.P5E3)

Elliot Bridget and Wallace, Jo-Ann. Women Artists and Writers. Modernist (im)positionings. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Ferguson, Russell, Martha Gever, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Cornel West. ed. Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures. New York: The New Museum of Contemporary Art and MIT Press, 1990.

Foster, Hal. Recodings . Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics. Port Townsend, Washington, Bay Press, 1985. (NX 456.5.P 66 F67)

Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge. Selected Interviews and Other Writings. 1972-1977. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.

Godeau, Abigail Solomon. Mistaken Identities. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993.

Guerilla Girls. Confessions of the Guerrilla Girls/ by the Guerrilla Girls themselves (whoever they really are). HarperPerennial, 1995.

Guerrilla Girls. The Guerrilla Girls’ Beside Companion to the History of Western Art. London and New York: Penguin Books, 1997.

Harrison, Charles and Paul Wood, edited. Art in Theory, 1900-1990. An Anthology of Changing Ideas. 1900-1990. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994 (first published 1992).

Hughes, Robert. The Culture of Complaint. New York: Warner Books, 1994.

Huyssen Andreas. After the Great Divide. Modernism, Mass-Culture, Post-Modernism..

John Berger. Ways of Seeing. London: British Broadcasting Corporation and Penguin Books, 1972.

Kipnis, Laura. Ecstasy Unlimited. On Sex, Capital, Gender and Aesthetics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.(E169.12.K47)

Kruger, Barbara and Phil Mariani. Editors. Remaking History. Discussions in Contemporary Culture. Seattle: Bay Press, 1989.

Lacy, Suzanne. Mapping the Terrain. New Genre Public Art. Seattle: Bay Press, 1995. (NX 650.P6M36)

Lippard, Lucy. Mixed Blessings: New Art in Multicultural America. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990.

Mercer, Kobena. Welcome to the Jungle. New Positions in Black Cultural Studies. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Mitchell, W.J.T. ed. Art and the Public Sphere. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Moser, Mary Anne and Douglas MacLeod. Editors. Immersed in Technology. Art and Virtual Environments. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1996.

Mulvey, Laura.Visual and Other Pleasures. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana Univ. Press, 1989.

Nelson, Robert and Richard Shiff. Editors. Critical Terms for Art History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Penny, Simon. "Virtual Reality as the Completion of the Enlightenment Project." in Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology. Edited by Gretchen Bender and Timothy Druckery. Seattle: Bay Press, 1994, pp. 231-248.

Rose, Jacqueline. Sexuality in the Field of Vision. London and New York: Verso, 1986.

Segal, Lynne and Mary McIntosh. Editors. Sex-Exposed. Sexuality and the Pornography Debate. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1993.

Staniszewski, Mary Anne. Believing is Seeing. Creating the Culture of Art. London and New York: Penguin Books, 1995.

Stiles, Kristine and Peter Selz, edited. Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Wallis, Brian. ed. Art After Modernism. Rethinking Representation. New York: The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1984 (NX 456.5.P66A74)

Wallis, Brian. ed. Blasted Allegories: An Anthology of Writings by Contemporary Artists. New York: The New Museum of Contemporary Art and MIT Press, 1990. (NX504.B5)

Weintraub, Linda. Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art’s Meaning in Contemporary Society 1970’s -1990’s. Includes essays by Arthur Danto & Thomas McEvilley. Art Insights Inc. 1996.


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