Books which I have read, partially read or referenced in the past 17 months.

Just to impress Silas!

PS. Silas, if you read more maybe you'd be able to spell "apparent" and "Dostoevsky".


Andrews, R., 2003. Research Questions. London: Continuum.

Balken, D. B., 2005. Abstract Expressionism. London: Tate Publishing.

Briggs, A. ed., 1992. A Dictionary of Twentieth Century World Biography. Swindon: Book Club Associates in assoc. with Oxford University Press.

Buchloh, B., 2003. Neo-Avant-Garde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art 1955-1975. London: The MIT Press.

Burger, P., 1984. Theory of the Avant-Garde. Translated from German by Michael Shaw. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Burskirk, M, and Nixon, M. eds., 1996. The Duchamp Effect. London: The MIT Press.

Chilvers, I. and Glaves-Smith, J. eds., 2009. A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Clark, T. J., 2001. Farewell to an Idea. London: Yale University Press.

Corn, W. M., 1999. The Great American Thing. London: University of California Press Ltd.

Deleuze, G., 2005. Cinema 1: The Movement-Image. Translated from French by Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. London: Continuum International Publishing Group.

Dow, A. W., 2007. Composition: Understanding Line, Notan and Color.
New York: Dover Publications Inc. (An unabridged reprint of Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers. 9th ed. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company. 1st edition published in 1899 by J. M. Bowles, Boston).

Edwards S. and Wood, P., eds., 2004. Art of the Avant-Gardes.
London: Yale University Press in assoc. with The Open University.

Elkins, J., 2002. Stories of Art. London: Routledge.

Foster, H., 1994. What's Neo about the Neo-Avant-Garde? October, Vol. 70, The Duchamp Effect (Autumn, 1994), pp. 5-32 (article consists of 28 pages), Available through: JSTOR archive [Accessed 5 February 2011].

Foster, H., Krauss, A., Bois, Y-A. and Buchloh, B. H. D., 2004. Art Since 1900. London: Thames & Hudson.

Guilbaut, S., 1983. How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art. Translated from French by Arthur Goldhammer. London: University of Chicago Press Ltd.

Haidu, R., 2010. The Absence of Work: Marcel Broodthaers 1964-1976. London: The MIT Press.

Harrison, C. and Wood, P. eds., 2003. Art in Theory 1900-2000. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Haskell, B., 1999. The American Century (Part 1, 1900-1950). New York: Whitney Museum of American Art in assoc. with W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Honnef, K., 2007. Warhol. Translated from German by Carole Fahy and I. Burns. Cologne: Taschen.

Hopkins, D. ed., 2006. Neo-Avant-Garde. Amsterdam-New York: Editions Rodopi B.V.

Joseph, B. W., 2003. Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the neo-avant-garde. London: The MIT Press.

Kocur, Z. and Leung, S. eds., 2009. Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Krauss, R., 1986. The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths. London: The MIT Press.

Lanchner, C., 2009. Robert Rauschenberg. New York: The Museum of Modern Art.

Lewis, I. and Munn, P., 2004. So You Want to Do Research. Glasgow: The SCRE Centre, University of Glasgow.

Lowis, K. and Pickeral, T., 2009. 50 Paintings You Should Know. Translated from German by Paul Aston. London: Prestel Publishing Ltd.

Margolin, V., 1997. The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy: 1917-1946. London: The University of Chicago Press.

Messinger, H., 1973. Deutsch-Englisch 6th ed. Berlin: Langenscheidt.

Murray, P and L., 1968. A Dictionary of Art & Artists. Harmondsworth: Penguin Reference Books.

Nelson, R. S. and Shiff, R. eds., 2003. Critical Terms for Art History. 2nd ed. London: University of Chicago Press Ltd.

Phillips, C. ed., 1989. Photography in the Modern Era. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Aperture.

Piper, D., 1984. A-Z of Art and Artists. Swindon: Book Club Associates in assoc. with Mitchell Beazley.

Rosenthal, S. ed., 2011. Pipilotti Rist: Eyeball Massage. London: Hayward Publishing.

Rothko Prizel, K. and Rothko, C. eds., 2004. The Artist's Reality. New Haven, Conn : Yale University Press.

Warr, T. and Jones, A., 2000. The Artist's Body. London: Phaidon Press Limited.

Weidemann, C., Larass, P. and Klier, M., 2008. 50 Women Artists You Should Know. Translated from German by Paul Aston and Jane Michael. London: Prestel Publishing Ltd.

Wood, P. ed., 1999. The Challenge of the Avant-Garde. London: Yale University Press in assoc. with The Open University.

Wood, P. ed., 2004. Varieties of Modernism. London: Yale University Press in assoc. with The Open University.