Bibliography and Suggestions for Visual Research

Use this list to bibliography to find artists for your oral presentations. Many of the slides shown in his course were taken from the following books. Some of these can be found in the Manderino library, and all can be obtained through inter-library loan. To purchase used books and textbooks, search for listings on Bookfinder.com

 

Contemporary Art and Drawing

Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing. London: Phaidon Press, 2005

Jordan Kantor. Drawing from the Modern. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2005

Thomas and Jackson. On Paper: New Paper Art: London: Crafts Council Gallery, 2001

Catherine de Zegher and Cornelia Butler. On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century. New York: Rizzoli, 2010

Catherine De Zegher and Thelma Golden. Julie Mehretu: The Drawings New York: Rizzoli, 2007

Posner, Helaine. Kiki Smith. Boston: Bullfinch Press, 1998

Kerry James Marshall. New York: Abrams, 2000

Schjeldahl, Peter. Eric Fischl. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1988

Dennison, Lisa, et al, Ross Bleckner. New York: Guggenheim, 1995

Weissman, Benjamin. Darren Waterston. Los Angeles: St Anne’s Press, 2001

Linker, Kate. Love for Sale: The Words and Pictures of Barbara Kruger. New York: Abrams, 1990

Couma-Peterson, Thalia. Miriam Shapiro. New York: Abrams, 2001

Phillips, Lisa and Kertess Klaus. Terry Winters. New York: Whitney Museum, 1992

Schjeldahl, Peter and Phillips, Lisa. Cindy Sherman. New York: Whitney Museum, 1987

  1. Bourgeois and L. Rinder. Louise Bourgeois: Drawings and Observations

Temkin and Rose. Thinking is Form: The Drawings of Joseph Beuys. New York: MOMA, 1993

Schnabel, Julien. C.V.J. New York: Random House, 1987

Jean Michel Basquiat. Tokyo: Art at Random, 1992

Rosenthal, Mark. Jonahan Borofsky. New York: Whitney Museum of Art, 1985

Caldwell, John, et al. Sigmar Polke. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1990

Kiefer, Anselm. A Book: Transition from Cool to Warm Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1988

Gilmour, John. Fire on Earth: Anselm Kiefer and the Postmodern World. Temple U. Press: Philadelphia, 1990

Clemente, Francesco. Evening Raga and Paradiso. New York, Rizzoli, 1992

de L’ecotais, Emmanuelleand Ware, Katherine. Man Ray: 1890-1976. Koln: Taschen, 2000

Goldman, Judith. James Rosenquist. Denver: Denver art Museum, 1985

Elderfield, John. The Drawings of Richard Deibenkorn. New York: Houston Fine Arts Press, 1988

Hughes, Robert. Frank Auerbach. London: Thames and Hudson, 1989

Corn, Wanda. The Art of Andrew Wyeth. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973

Gohr, Siegfried. Georg Baselitz: Prints. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1984

Sigmar Polke. History of Everything: Paintings and Drawings. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004

Leiris, Michel. Francis Bacon. New York: Rizzoli, 1983

Phyllis Plous. Terry Winters: Painting and Drawing. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1987

Saar, Betye. Extending the Frozen Moment. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, 2006

 

Figure Drawing

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci. New York: Dover Publications, 1970

O’Malley and Saunders. Leonardo Da Vinci on the Human Body: The Anatomical, Physiological, and Embryological Drawings. New York: Wings Books, 1982

Strauss, Walter. The Comlpete Drawings of Albrecht Durer. (6 Volumes)New York: Abaris Books, 1974

Albrecht Durer: the Human Figure. The Complete Dresden Sketchbook. New York: Dover, 1927

Ames-Lewis, Francis. The Draftsman Raphael. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986

Berenson, Bernard. The Drawings of the Florentine Painters. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1970

Hale, Robert Beverly. Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1965

Tietze, Hans& Erica. The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries. NY: J. Augustin, 1970

Rosenberg, Jakob. Great Draughtsmen from Pisanello to Picasso, Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, 1959

Berenson, Bernard. The Drawings of the Florentine Painters. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1970

Marks, Claude. From the Sketchbooks of the Great Artists. New York: Thomas Crowell Co., 1972

Moskowitz, Ira. Great Drawings of All Time. New York: Shorewood Publishers, 1962

Scheidig, Walther. Rembrandt’s Drawings. Boston: Boston Book and Art Shop, Inc.

Adhemar and Cachin. Degas: The Complete Etchings, Lithographs, and Monotypes. Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell, 1974

Olszewski, Edward. The Draftsman’s Eye:Late Renaissance Schools and Styles.Cleveland Museum of Art, “81

Lampert, Catherine. Rodin: Drawings and Sculpture. Arts Council of Great Britain, 1986

Odilon Redon. Memphis: Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 1990

Kahn, Gustave. The Drawings of Georges Seurat. New York: Dover, 1971

Johnson, Una. 20th Century Drawings: 1900 to the Present. New York: Bonanza Books, 1964

Sayre, Eleanor. The Changing Image: Prints by Francisco Goya. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1974

Segy, Ladislas. African Sculpture. New York: Dover, 1958

Muybridge, Eadweard. The Human Figure in Motion. New York: Dover Publications, 1955

Muybridge, Eadweard. Animals in Motion. New York: Dover Publications, 1955

The Human Figure in Early Greek Art Greek: Greek Ministry of Culture/National Gallery, Washington, DC, 1987

Zigrosser, Carl. Kathe Kollwitz. New York: Bittner and Company, 1946

Kahn, Gustave. The Drawings of Georges Seurat. New York: Dover,1971

 

Drawing Instruction

Elkins, James. Why Art Cannot Be Taught: A Handbook for Art Students. Chicago: U. of Illinois, 2001

Goldfinger, Eliot. Human Anatomy for Artists: the Elements of Form. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991

Beck, James. Leonardo’s Rules of Painting. New York: The Viking Press, 1979

Betti and Sale, 4th Ed. Drawing: A Contemporary Approach. Harcourt and Brace

Ruskin, John. The Elements of Drawing. New York: Dover Publications, 1971

Brown and McLean, Drawing fom Life. Thomson /WadsworthBelmont, CA, 2004

Goldstein, Nathan. Figure Drawing: The Structure, Anatomy, and Expressive Design of Human Form. Upper Saddle River, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1999

Betti and Sale, 4th Ed. Drawing: A Contemporary Approach. Harcourt and Brace

Simmons and Weiner. Drawing: The Creative Process. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1977

 

Art Theory and History

Barkhatova, Elena. Russian Constructivist Posters. Paris: Flammarion, 1992

Chipp, Herschel B., ed. Theories of Modern Art. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1998

Clark, Kenneth. The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form. New York: Pantheon, 1953

Crary, Jonathan and Ferer, Michel, ed. Fragments for a History of the Human Body, 3 Vol. New York: Zone, 1989

Fineberg, Jonathan. Art Since 1940: Stategies of Being. Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1995

Goldwater, Robert, ed. Artists on Art from the 15th to 20th Century. New York, Pantheon Books, 1964

Gombrich, E. H. Art and Illusion, Princeton:N.J.:Princeton University Press, 1969

Haslam, Malcolm. The Real World of the Surrealists. New York: Galley Press, 1978

Harrison and Wood. Art in Theory: 1900-1990. Cambridge: Blackwell, Blackwell, 1992

Hofstadter, Albert, ed. Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger. NY: Modern Library, 1964

Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Columbia University Press, New York, 1982

Pack, Susan, Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde. New York: Taschen, 1995

Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Birth of Tragedy. New York: Dover Editions, 2006

Schaffner, Ingrid. Salvidor Dali’s Dream of Venus: The Surrealist Funhouse. NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2002

 

Art and Culture, Art and Feminism

Reckitt, Helena, Ed. Art and Feminism, New York, Phaidon Press, 2006

Carol Armstrong, and Catherine de Zegher. Border Crossings: Women Artists at the Millennium. Cambridge, MIT Press: 2006

Broude, Norma. The Power of Feminist Art. New York: Abrams, 1976

Catherine de Zegher. Inside the Visible: An Elliptical Traverse of 20th Century Art in, of, and From the Feminine, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996

Lucie-Smith, Edward. Race, Sex and Gender in Contemporary Art. New York: Abrams, 1994

Paglia, Camille. Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays. N.Y.:Vintage, 1992

Guerrilla Girls. The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art. London: Penguin Books, 1998

Guerrilla Girls. Bitches, Bimbos, and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls’ Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes. London: Penguin Books, 2003

Guerrilla Girls. Confessions of the Guerrilla Girls. How a Bunch of Masked Avengers Fight Sexism and Racism in the Art World with Facts, Humor and Fake Fur. New York City: HarperCollins, 1995.

See link to complete Guerrilla Girl bibliography

http://womhist.alexanderstreet.com/ggirls/biblio.htm.

Saunders, Gill. The Nude: A New Perspective. New York: Harper and Row, 1989

Norris and Benjamin, What is Deconstruction? New York: St. Martin’s, 1988

Appignanesi and Garratt. Introducing Postmodernism. N.Y: Totem, 1977

Goffman, Erving. Gender Advertisements. New York: Harper and Row, 1979

Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. London: British Brouadcasting Corporation, 1977

Dissanayake, Ellen. Homo Aestheticus. N.Y.: Free Press, 1992

Gablick, Suzi. Has Modernism Failed? New York: Thames and Hudson, 1984

Hauser, Arnold. The Social History of Art. N. Y. Vintage, 1951

Varnedoe and Gopnik. High and Low. Modern Art and Popular Culture. New York: Abrams, 199

 

Art and Nature, Art and Ecology

Grande, John K. Art Nature Dialogues: Interviews with Environmental Artists, New York: S.U.N.Y Press, 2004

Baker, Steve, The Postmodern Animal, London: Reaktion Books, 2000

Clark-Langager, S. and Deitrich, M. Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest Artists on the Environment, Bellingham and Salem: Western Gallery and Halle Ford Museum of Art, 2010

Matilsky, Barbara. Fragile Ecologies: Contemporary Artists’ Interpretations and Solutions. New York: Rizzoli, 1992

Gablick, Suzi. Conversations Before the End of Time, New York: Thames and Hudson, 1995

Smith Stephie; Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art. Chicago and New York: Smart Museum of art and Universty of Chicago, 1992

Avigikos, Jan. Green Piece. Artforum (April 1991):105-110

Boettger, Susan. Global Warmings. Art in America (June/July 2008): 154-161, 206-207

Brookner, Jackie. Ed. Art and Ecology. Art Journal 51, no. 2 (Summer 1992)

Cembalest, Robin. The Ecological Art Explosion. ARTnews (Summer 1991): 97-105

Cembalest, Robin. Turning Up the Heat. ARTnews (June 2008): 102-115

Livingston, Ira. Sustainability and Apocalypticism. PRATTfolio (NewYork: Pratt Institute of Art), Spring 2008: 46-47

Wolff, Rachel. Turning Over a New Leaf. ARTnews (April 2009): 88-95.

Markonish, Denise, ed. Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape. North Adams, MA: MASS MoCA. 2009

Andrews, Malcolm. Landscape and Western Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999

Morris, Robert, Earthworks: Land Reclamation as Sculpture. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum:1979

Penault, Madeleine, The Painter as Naturalist: from Durer to Redoute, Paris: Flammarion, 1991

Diana Donald and Jane Munro. Endless Forms: Charles Darwin and the Visual Arts. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009

Carol Armstrong and Catherine de Zegher. Ocean Flowers: Impressions from Nature: Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004

Lippincott, and Bluhm. Fierce Friends: Artists and Animals, 1750-1900. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum, 2006.

Clark, Kenneth. Animals and Men. New York: Wm. Morrow and Co., 1977.

Blossfeldt, Karl. Art Forms in the Plant World. New York: Dover Publications, 1985.

Dance, S. Peter. The Art of Natural History. New York, Arch Cape Press, 1990

Haeckel, Ernst. Art Forms from the Ocean. New York: Prestel Verlag, 2005.

—————–. Art Forms in Nature. New York: Dover Publications, 1974.

Lack, H. Walter. Masterpieces of Botanical Illustration: Garden of Eden.  New York: Taschen, 2001.

Ormond, Richard. Sir Edwin Landseer. London: The Tate Gallery, 1981

Cook, Theodore. The Curves of Life: Being an Account of Spiral Formations and their Application to Growth in Nature, Science, and Art. New York: Dover, 1979

 

Art, Science, and Technology

Robin, Harry. The Scientific Image: from Cave to Computor. New York: Abrams, 1992

Kemp, Martin and Wallace Marina, Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body

from Leonardo to Now. Berkeley: U. of Cal. Press, 2000

Kemp, Martin. The Science of Art. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1992

Schlain, Leonard. Art and Physics. New York: Morrow, 1991.

Rifkin and Ackerman. Human Anatomy (from the Renaissance to the Digital Age). New York: Abrams, 2006

Hale, Nathan Cabot. Abstraction in Art and Nature. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1980

Doczi, Gyorgy. The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art, and Architecture. Boulder and London: Shambala, 1981

Mandelbrot, Benoit. The Fractal Geometry of Nature. New York: Freeman and Co., 1977

Hildebrandt and Tromba. Mathematics and Optimal Form. New York: Scientific American, 1984

Schwenk, Theodor. Sensitive Chaos: the Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air. London: Steiner Pr., 1965

D’Arcy Thompson. On Growth and Form. London: Cambridge University Press

Augarten, Stan. State of the Art: A Photographic History of the Integrated Circuit. NY: Ticknor & Fields, 1983

Twentieth Century Engineering. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1964

Rappaport/Stayton. Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960. NY: Abrams, 2001

Lucic, Karen, Charles Scheeler and the Cult of the Machine, London: Reaktion Books, 2000

 

History of Symbols, Iconography, Mythology

Jung, Carl. Man and His Symbols. New York: Doubleday, 1971

Campbell, Joseph. The Mythic Image. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974

Historical Atlas of World Mythology. New York: Harper and Row, 1988

The Power of Myth. New York: Doubleday, 1988

Grabar, Oleg. The Mediation of Ornament. Princeton: Bollingen Series, U.of Princeton Press, 1989

Leidy and Thurman. Mandala: the Architecture of Enlightenment. Boston: Shambala, 1998

Hall, James Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art

Cormac, Robin, Painting the Soul: Icons, Death Masks and Shrouds, London: Reaktion Books, 1997

Fabricus, Johannes. Alchemy: The Medieval Alchemists and their Royal Art, London: Diamond Books, 1989

Titles from Thames and Hudson Art and Imagination Series. (40 illustrated books with many wonderful pictures!)

 

Design and Ornament

Jones, Owen. The Grammar of Ornament. New York: Portland House, 1986

Lehner, Ernst. Signs, Symbols and Signets. New York: Dover, 1950

Speltz, Alexander. Styles of Ornament. New York: Grosset and Dunlap

Thornton, Peter. Form and Decoration: Innovation in the Arts: 1470-1870, New York: Abrams, 1998

Zaczek, Iain. Essential William Morris Bath, England: Dempsey Parr, 1999

Itten, Johannes, Design and Form: The Basis Course at the Bauhaus and Later. New York: Van Nostrand, 1975