Reading List Abstract Drawing Artists’ Reading List Back Artists taking part in Drawing Room's exhibition programme are invited to compile ‘reading lists’ that inform and expand the themes explored in their works. This list has been compiled for Abstract Drawing, an exhibition curated by artist Richard Deacon including a broad range of works by over 30 artists spanning the last 105 years on the idea of ‘abstraction’ in drawing. Titles marked with an asterisk * are held in Outset Study. Title Author Selected by The gray cloth : a novel on glass architecture * Paul Scheerbart David Austen Looking at the overlooked Norman Bryson David Austen Paul Celan : selected poems Paul Celan David Austen Hart Crane : complete poems Hart Crane David Austen The decay of the angel Yukio Mishima David Austen The sailor who fell from grace with the sea Yukio Mishima David Austen Six memos for the next millennium Italo Calvino David Austen Some of the things I really must do before I die (Written version of a radio broadcast ‘From species of spaces and other pieces’) Georges Perec David Austen Jesus'_Blood_Never_Failed_Me_Yet (sound work) Gavin Bryars David Austen Tower of meaning (sound work) Arthur Russel David Austen How to look : Ad Reinhardt art comics Kristine Bell Richard Deacon Chromophobia David Batchelor Richard Deacon The true vine Stephen Bann Richard Deacon Meditations on a hobby horse E. H. Gombrich Richard Deacon The language of vision Gyorgy Kepes Richard Deacon Abstraction and empathy Wilhelm Worringer Richard Deacon Shamanism Mircea Eliade Richard Deacon The mind in the cave David Lewis Williams Richard Deacon Minimal art : a critical anthology Gregory Batcock Richard Deacon The Russian experiment in art Camilla Grey Richard Deacon The mathematical theory of communication Claude Shannon & Warren Weaver Richard Deacon Art as the evolution of visual knowledge Charles Biederman Garth Evans Correction Thomas Bernhard Lothar Goetz In praise of shadows Jun’ichiro Tanizaki Lothar Goetz Art and discontent : theory at the millennium Thomas McEvilley Lothar Goetz Goldberg Variations [sound work] The Robots from Kraftwerk Sebastian Bach Lothar Goetz The world of perception Maurice Merleau-Ponty Victoria Haven The ballad of Peckham Rye Muriel Spark Victoria Haven Awe Dorothea Lasky Victoria Haven Cézannes composition : analysis of his form with diagrams and photographs of his motifs Erle Loran Victoria Haven Last year at Marienbad (script for the film by Alain Resnais) Alain Robbe - Grillet Victoria Haven Songs of innocence and of experience William Blake Victoria Haven Please kill me : the uncensored oral history of punk Legs McNeil Victoria Haven Dialogue in the vois : Beckett and Giacometti Matti Megged Victoria Haven Radical love : 5 novels Fanny Howe Victoria Haven Zona Geoff Dyer Victoria Haven Alice’s adventures in wonderland Lewis Carroll Victoria Haven Nature Writings John Muir Victoria Haven Interaction of colour Josef Albers Victoria Haven A tour of the monuments of Passaic, New Jersey [essay] Robert Smithson Victoria Haven Why does Fred Sandback’s work make me cry? [essay] Andrea Fraser Victoria Haven Francis Bacon : the logic of sensation Gilles Deleuze Emma McNally A thousand plateaus Gilles Deleuze Emma McNally The visible and the invisible Merleau Ponty Emma McNally The poetics of space Gaston Bachelard Emma McNally The information James Gleick Emma McNally Microsound Curtis Roads Emma McNally Larousse Encyclopaedia of prehistoric and ancient art Emma McNally C Tom McCarthy Emma McNally 30 minute snare drum roll [sound work] Charles Hayward Emma McNally Buildings of New York [sound work] Francisco Lopez Emma McNally Live transmission from hydrophones under the Antarctic ice [sound work] Emma McNally Music for 18 musicians [sound work] Steve Reich Emma McNally Spem in Alium [sound work] Thomas Tallis Emma McNally Arvo Part [sound work] Emma McNally Tim Hecker [sound work] Emma McNally A love supreme [sound work] John Coltrane Emma McNally The cello suites [sound work] Bach Emma McNally Materials of the artist Max Doerner Sam Messenger What is art? Leo Tolstoy Sam Messenger The past from above Charlotte Trumpler Alison Wilding Tribal and village rugs Peter F. Stone Alison Wilding Kevin Volans, hunting : gathering [sound work] The Duke Quartet, Black Box Music Limited, 2002 Alison Wilding Related Content Exhibition Abstract Drawing 20 February 2014 – 19 April 2014 Event Abstract Drawing Exhibition Tour 19 February 2014 See more related content