Cally Trench asked the Remarkable and Curious Conversations artists in June 2010 what they were reading, and she made a zigzag book from photographs of one hundred of the book spines. The complete reading list is given below. |
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Remarkable Reading List * indicates the book is on the shelf; ** indicates it appears twice Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor*Adamson, Thinking through Craft *Samuel Adler, The Study of Orchestration Claude Amey,Mémoire archaîque de l'art contemporain *Guillaume Apollinaire, Correspondance avec les artistes 1903-1918 *Sam Ashby (publ), Little Joe magazine *Neil Astley (ed), Staying Alive, Real Poems for Unreal Times WH Auden, Look! Stranger collected poems **Philip Auslander, Liveness: performance in a mediatized culture *Joan Bakewell, The Centre of the Bed Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot *Walter Benjamin, Illuminations *John Berger, Hold Everything Dear: dispatches on survival and resistance *Clifford Bishop, Sex and Spirit *Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (graphic novel form) *Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fighting Man of Mars *Italo Calvino, Difficult Loves *The New Cambridge Modern History Atlas *David Campany, Photography and Cinema *Marise Comdé, Ségou *Nicholas Cook, Music, imagination & Culture *Merlin Coverley, Psychogeography *Dante, The Divine Comedy 2: Purgatory Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities *Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend *Jay Dixon, The Romance Fiction of Mills and Boon *Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov Thierry Du Deuve, Kant after Duchamp *Dvorak, Symphony No 7 *Umberto Eco, On Literature *George Eliot, Middlemarch *Glen Ellis, Dead Sea Scrolls: words that changed the world Brett Easton Ellis, Glamorama *Bryony Fer, Eva Hesse Studioworks *Erika Fischer-Lichte, The Transformative Power of Performance *EM Forster, Aspects of the Novel Hal Foster (ed), Postmodern Culture *Peter France and William St Clair (ed), Mapping Lives. The Uses of Biography *Michael Fried, Morris Louis *Alastair Fuad-Luke, Design Activism- a beautiful strangeness for a sustainable world Suzi Gablik, The Re-enchantment of Art Stephen Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo *Alex Garland, The Beach *Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South *Jean Giono, Le grand troupeau *Noah J Goldstein, Steve J Martin and Robert B Cialdini, Yes! 50 secrets from the science of persuasion Vilhelm Hammershoi, The Poetry of Silence *Harrison and Wood, Art in Theory 1900-1990 *Adrian Heathfield (ed), Live: Art and Performance *Judith Hermann, Nichts als Gespenster *Hermann Hesse, Demian *Holst, The Planets, Op.32 *Shu Hung and Joseph Magliaro, By Hand Kazuo Ishiguro - Nocturnes *Elizabeth Jenkins, The Tortoise and the Hare *Jerome K Jerome, Three Men in a Boat JE ("Johnnie") Johnson and PB ("Laddie") Lucas, Courage in the Skies: great air battles from the Somme to Desert Storm *Amelia Jones, Body Art/Performing the subject *Steve Jones, The Descent of Man Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation *Judith Kitchen, The House on Eccles Road *Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf Deidre Le Faye, Jane Austen's Letters Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living *David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish Charles C. Mann, 1491 Hugh McKnight, Cruising French Waterways *Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall Yann Martel, Beatrice and Virgil *Jean Luc Marion, La croisée du visible *Simon Mawer, The Glass Room *Anne Michaels, The Winter Vault *Rosie Millard, The Tastemakers : UK Art Now *Montesquieu, Persian Letters Chantal Mouffe, Artistic activism and Agonistic Spaces *Gregor Muir, Lucky Kunst: the rise and fall of Young British Art *Muir's Historical Atlas *Laura Mulvey, Death 24 x second. Stillness and the moving image *Alice Munro, Runaway *Virginia Nicholson, Singled Out *Ninjalicious, Access All Areas: a user's guide to urban exploration *Oppian, Colluthus, Tryphiodorus *James Orbinski MD, An Imperfect Offering: humanitarian action in the twenty -first century George Orwell, Collected Essays *P.D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous *Michael Parkinson, Parky: My Autobiography *Parsons and Blocke, Aesthetics and Education Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet *Peggy Phelan, Unmarked: The Politics of Performance *Anthony Powell, The Acceptance World *Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass Quantum Books (publ), Arts and Crafts Movement Jacques Ranciere, The Ignorant Schoolmaster *Rapid Eye 1 *Mark Roskill (ed), The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh *Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements *C.J. Sansom, Winter in Madrid **Richard Schechner - Performance Studies: an introduction *Richard Sennett, The Craftsman *Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing *Shakespeare, Twelfth Night *Iain Sinclair, Lights out for the Territory *Alexander McCall Smith, The Number One Ladies' Detective Agency *Julian Stallabrass, High Art Lite *David Suzuki and Holly Dressel, More Good News: Real Solutions to the Global Eco-Crisis Katherine Swift, The Morville Hours *Andrea Tarsia (ed), Sophe Calle: The Reader *Phillips, Exposed: Voyeursm, Surveillance and the Camera Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar *Scarlett Thomas, The End of Mr Y Colm Toibin, Brooklyn *Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth **Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace *Colin Tudge, The Variety of Life: a survey and a celebration of all the creatures that have ever lived **Turkle (ed), Evocative Objects *David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest *Marina Warner, From the Beast to the Blonde *Warner, Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds *Sarah Waters, Affinity Winifred Watson, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day *Robert Wien, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari *PG Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters *Jackie Wullschlager, Chagall Love and Exile *Irvin Yalom, Le jardin d'Epicure Charlotte M Yonge, The Heir of Redclyffe *A Simple Guide to Wireless |