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BA Visual Art: Contextual Studies: Critical Perspectives

Essential Reading

Ways of Seeing by Berger, J
ISBN: 0140135154

Publication Date: 1990
An Intimate Distance by Betterton, R
ISBN: 9780415110853

Publication Date: 1996
Methods and Theories of Art History by D'Alleva, A
ISBN: 9781913947026

Publication Date: 2021
Art since 1900 by Foster, H
ISBN: 0500238898

Publication Date: 2011
Playing at Home by Gill Perry
ISBN: 9781780232294

Publication Date: 2013
The Whole Picture by Alice Procter
ISBN: 9781788402453

Publication Date: 2021
Art of the Digital Age by Wands, B
ISBN: 9780500286296

Publication Date: 2007

Recommended Reading

The Mushroom at the End of the World by Lowenhaupt Tsing, A
ISBN: 9780691220550

Publication Date: 2021
A short guide to writing about art by Barnet, S.
ISBN: 9781292059907

Publication Date: 2015
Bad New Days by Foster, H
ISBN: 9781784781484

Publication Date: 2017
Art in Theory 1815-1900 by Harrison, C; Wood P
ISBN: 9780631200666

Publication Date: 1998
A Social History of Museums by Hudson, K
ISBN: 9781349017591

Publication Date: 1975

Further Reading

Shades of Black by Bailey, D (Editor);
ISBN: 9780822334200

Publication Date: 2005
Gender Trouble by Butler, JP
ISBN: 9780415389556

Publication Date: 2006
Black Artists in British Art by Chambers, E
ISBN: 9781780762722

Publication Date: 2014
Black Visual Culture (out of print) by Doy, G
ISBN: 9781860643828

Publication Date: 1999

Vibrant Matter by Bennett, J
ISBN: 9780822346333

Publication Date: 2010
Towards Speculative Realism by Harman, G
ISBN: 9781846943942

Publication Date: 2010
After Finitude by Meillassoux, Q
ISBN: 9781441173836

Publication Date: 2010

How to Read: Freud by Cohen, Josh
ISBN: 9781862077638

Publication Date: 2005
Powers of Horror by Kristeva, Julia
ISBN: 9780231053471

Publication Date: 1984

Return to the Postcolony by Demos, T. J.
ISBN: 9783943365429

Publication Date: 2013
Culture and Imperialism by Said, W.
ISBN: 9780099967507

Publication Date: 1994

Illuminations by Benjamin, W
ISBN: 9781847923868

Publication Date: 2015
Matter and Memory by Bergson, H
ISBN: 9780942299052

Publication Date: 1988
Heidegger Reframed by Bolt, b
ISBN: 9781845116798

Publication Date: 2010
A thousand plateaus : capitalism and schizophrenia by Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F.
ISBN: 9781780935379

Publication Date: 2013
Archaeology of Knowledge by Foucault, M
ISBN: 9780415287531

Publication Date: 2002
Simulacra and Simulation by Baudrillard, J;
ISBN: 9780472065219

Publication Date: 1994
The medium is the massage : an inventory of effects by McLuhan, M.
ISBN: 9780141035826

Publication Date: 2008
Deleuze Reframed by Sutton, D; Martin-Jones, d
ISBN: 9781845115470

Publication Date: 2008

The Internet Does Not Exist by E-Flux Journal (Editor)
ISBN: 9783956791307

Publication Date: 2015

Module Journals and websites

Museum of Modern Art

Saatchi Gallery