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BA Visual Art: Introduction to Materials and Processes

Essential Reading

What Is Contemporary Art? by Aranda, Julieta etc al (E-Flux)
ISBN: 9781934105108

Publication Date: 2010
Berger on drawing by John Berger and Jim Savage
ISBN: 9780954897642

Publication Date: 2007
Ways of Seeing by Berger, J
ISBN: 0140135154

Publication Date: 1990
Art Since 1980: Charting the contemporary by Kalb, Peter R.
ISBN: 1780672802

Publication Date: 2013
Materiality (Documents of Contemporary Art) by Petra Lange-Berndt
ISBN: 0854882375

Publication Date: 2015
Art Practice As Research by Graeme Sullivan
ISBN: 9781412974516

Publication Date: 2009
Art of the Digital Age by Wands, B
ISBN: 9780500286296

Publication Date: 2007

Recommended Reading

The Painter Of Modern Life by Baudelaire, Charles-Pierre
ISBN: 9780141192765

Publication Date: 2010
Painting Today (out of print - click link for alternative) by Tony Godfrey
ISBN: 9780714868561

Publication Date: 2014
Vitamin P by Barry Schwabsky
ISBN: 0714844462

Publication Date: 2004
The Painting of Modern Life (out of print) by Martin Herbert
ISBN: 9781853322631

Publication Date: 2008
Psychological Aesthetics (print ed. out of print) by David Maclagan
ISBN: 9781853028342

Publication Date: 2001

In Black and White by Gill Saunders
ISBN: 9781851777549

Publication Date: 2013
What Is a Print? by Sarah Suzuki (Editor)
ISBN: 9780870708183

Publication Date: 2011
Artists and Prints (out of print) by El Lissitzky (Artist); Pablo Picasso (Artist); Jackson Pollock (Artist); Henri de Toulouse-Latrec (Artist); Pierre Bonnard (Artist)
ISBN: 9780870701252

Publication Date: 2004

Installation Art by Claire Bishop
ISBN: 1854375180

Publication Date: 2010
Vitamin 3-D (out of print) by Adriano Pedrosa; Laura Hoptman; Jens Hoffmann
ISBN: 9780714868578

Publication Date: 2014
A Sculpture Reader by Glenn Harper (Editor); Twylene Moyer (Editor)
ISBN: 9780295986210

Publication Date: 2010
Installation Art in the New Millenium by Nicolas De Oliveira; De Oliveira; Nicola Oxley
ISBN: 0500284512

Publication Date: 2004
Understanding Installation Art by Mark Rosenthal
ISBN: 3791329847

Publication Date: 2003

Art Photography by David Bate
ISBN: 9781849762243

Publication Date: 2016
The Photograph As Contemporary Art by Charlotte Cotton
ISBN: 9780500204481

Publication Date: 2020
Photography Theory by James Elkins (Editor)
ISBN: 9780415977838

Publication Date: 2006
The Language of New Media by Lev Manovich
ISBN: 9780262632553

Publication Date: 2002
Parables for the Virtual by Brian Massumi
ISBN: 9781478014676

Publication Date: 2021
The Address of the Eye by Vivian Sobchack
ISBN: 9780691008745

Publication Date: 1991
Camera lucida : reflections on photography by Roland Barthes
ISBN: 0099225417

Publication Date: 2000
On Photography by Susan Sontag
ISBN: 0141187166

Publication Date: 2002
Photographs Objects Histories by Elizabeth Edwards (Editor); Janice Hart (Editor)
ISBN: 0415254426

Publication Date: 2004
Understanding A Photograph by Berger, John; Dyer, Geoff (editor)
ISBN: 0141392029

Publication Date: 2013
A History of Artists' Film and Video in Britain by David Curtis
ISBN: 9781844570966

Publication Date: 2006
Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age by Malcolm Le Grice
ISBN: 9780851708737

Publication Date: 2001
Women's Experimental Cinema by Robin Blaetz (Editor)
ISBN: 9780822340447

Publication Date: 2007