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Modern and Contemporary Art Resources

Publications

Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography , New York: Hill and Wang, 1982.

Walter Benjamin, Illuminations , (ed.) Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn, London: Fontana, 1973.

Bruce Altshuler, The Avant-Garde in Exhibition: New Art in the Twentieth Century , New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994.

Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity , London: Verso, 1998.

Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space , Boston: Beacon Press, 1994.

Emma Barker (ed.), Contemporary Cultures of Display , London: Yale University Press in association with The Open University, 1999.

Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Aesthetics , Dijon: Les Presse Du Réel, 1998.

Martha Buskirk, The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art , Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2005.

Frances Colpitt (ed.), Abstract Art in the Late Twentieth Century , Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Claire Doherty, Contemporary Art: From Studio to Situation , London: Black Dog Publishing, 2004.

Editors of Phaidon Press, Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation , London and New York: Phaidon Press, 2009.

Steve Edwards & Paul Woods (eds.), Art of the Avant-Gardes (Art of the Twentieth Century) , New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with the Open University, 2004.

Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois & Benjamin Buchloh (eds.), Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism , London: Thames and Hudson, 2004.

Hal Foster, The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century , Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1996.

Francis Frascina & Jonathan Harris, Art in Modern Culture: An Anthology of Critical Texts , London: Phaidon in association with the Open University Press, 2009.

Francis Frascina & Charles Harrison (eds), Modern Art and Modernism: A Critical Anthology , London: Paul Chapman Publishing, Ltd., 1982.

London: Yale University Press in association with The Open University, 2003.

Reesa Greenberg, Bruce W. Ferguson and Sandy Nairne (eds.), Thinking About Exhibitions , London and New York: Routledge, 1996.

Charles Harrison and Paul Wood (eds.), Art in Theory 1990 - 1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas , Malden MA and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003.

Charles Harrison, Paul Wood & Jason Giager (eds.), Art in Theory 1815-1900: An Anthology of Changing Ideas , Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.

David Hopkins, After Modern Art 1945 – 2000 , Oxford University Press, 2000.

Fredric Jameson, ‘Postmodernism in Consumer Society’, in Hal Foster (ed.), The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture , NY: The New Press, 2002.

Rosalind Krauss, The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths , Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1985.

Miwon Kwon, One Place After Another: Site-specific Art and Locational Identity , Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2004.

Lucy Lippard, Six Years: The Dematerialisation of the Art Object , Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Jean Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge , Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984.

Pam Meecham & Julie Sheldon, Modern Art: A Critical Introduction , London: Routledge, 2000.

Brian O’Doherty, Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space , Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Gill Perry (ed.), Themes in Contemporary Art , New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with the Open University, 2004.

Jean Robertson & Craig McDaniel, Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art After 1980 , Oxford University Press, 2005.

Brandon Taylor, Contemporary Art: Art since 1970 , New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2004.

Dorothy Walker, Modern Art in Ireland , Dublin: Lilliput, 1997.

Linda Weintraub, Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art’s Meaning in Contemporary Society, 1970s – 1990s , Litchfield, CT: Art Insights Inc., 1997.

Linda Weintraub, Making Contemporary Art: How Today’s Artists Think and Work , Thames & Hudson, 2003.

Caroline Wiseman, Modern Art Now: From Conception to Consumption , Ipswich: Strawberry Art Press, 2006.

Paul Wood, Francis Frascina, Johathan Harris & Charles Harrison (eds.), Modernism in Dispute: Art since the Forties , New Haven & London: Yale University Press in Association with the Open University, 1994.

Paul Wood (ed.), Varieties of Modernism , New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with the Open University, 2004.