Reading List Graphic Witness Artists’ Reading List Back Artists and curators taking part in Drawing Room's exhibition programme are invited to compile ‘reading lists’ that inform and expand the themes explored in their work. This list has been compiled for Graphic Witness, an exhibition that considers the notion of the ‘graphic witness’, a term that harnesses the power of drawing to challenge and question the status quo, to record and reflect protest, as well as to bear witness to social injustices and the horrors of war. Graphic Witness explores the way drawings can both document injustices and become agents that encourage us to act. Titles marked with an asterisk * are held in Outset Study. Title Author Selected by The Ottoman Empire Anne Davison Mounira al Solh Rabih Mroué: Diary of a Leap Year * Rabih Mroue Mounira al Solh Walid Raad: I might Die Before I Get a Rifle, Hasselblad Award 2011 Walid Raad Mounira al Solh Salvation O Boys: 16 Years in Syrian Prisons * Yassin al-Haj Saleh Mounira al Solh Myths of the Others: Criticizing Contemporary Islam and Criticizing its Criticism Yassin al-Haj Saleh Mounira al Solh A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution * Samar Yazbek Mounira al Solh No Knives in the Kitchens of this City Khaled Khalifeh Mounira al Solh Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics * Hanna Batatu Mounira al Solh The Harem Within * Fatima Mernissi Mounira al Solh James Boswell: Unofficial War Artist: London, Scotland, Iraq 1939-1945 * William Feaver Mounira al Solh Emily Jacir: Europa * Omar Kholeif Mounira al Solh Powers of Horror * Julia Kristeva Catherine Anyango Grünewald And our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos * John Berger Catherine Anyango Grünewald Something Out There Nadine Gordimer Catherine Anyango Grünewald Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Catherine Anyango Grünewald The Perverts Guide to Cinema [Film] Director: Sophie Friennes Catherine Anyango Grünewald City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles Mile Davis Catherine Anyango Grünewald Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière * Georges Didi-Huberman Catherine Anyango Grünewald The Rock T.S Eliot Catherine Anyango Grünewald The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History * Ibn Khaldun Nidal Chamekh The Wretched of the Earth * Frantz Fanon Nidal Chamekh The Surviving Image: Phantoms of Time and Time of Phantoms: Aby Warburg's History of Art * George Didi-Huberman Nidal Chamekh La Pensee Fragmentee * Ralph Heyndels Nidal Chamekh Orientalism * Edward W. Said Nidal Chamekh One-Way Street and Other Writings * Walter Benjamin Nidal Chamekh Liquid Fear Zygmunt Bauman Joy Gerrard Afflicted Powers; Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War Iain Boal Joy Gerrard Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence * Judith Butler Joy Gerrard Crowds and Power * Elias Canetti Joy Gerrard Capsular Civilization: On the City in the Age of Fear * Lieven de Cauter Joy Gerrard Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire * Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri Joy Gerrard Leviathan * Thomas Hobbes Joy Gerrard Dead Cities and Other Tales Mile Davis Joy Gerrard The Society of Spectacle * Guy Debord Joy Gerrard Art and Fear * Paul Virilio Joy Gerrard Crepuscular Dawn * Paul Virlio Joy Gerrard Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Mark Fisher Joy Gerrard Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities * Rebecca Solnit Joy Gerrard Crowds and Party Jodi Dean Joy Gerrard Crowds * Jeffrey T. Snapp & Mattew Tiews Joy Gerrard Crowds and Democracy: The Idea and Image of the Masses from Revolution to Fascism * Stefan Jonsson Joy Gerrard A Brief History of the Masses Three Revolutions * Stefan Jonsson Joy Gerrard Europe in Revolt! * Bhaskar Sunkara & Catrina Principe Joy Gerrard Arendt in Hong Kong: Occupy, Participatory Art, and Place-Making * [article in Cultural Politics, Vol. 12, Issue 2 (July 2016), pp. 155-172] Laikwan Pang Joy Gerrard Under Suspicion: a Phenomenology of Media * Boris Groys Beatriz González The Republic * Plato Beatriz González In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust Beatriz González The Surviving Image: Phantoms of Time and Time of Phantoms: Aby Warburg's History of Art * Georges Didi-Huberman Beatriz González My Life as a Russian Novel Emmanuel Carrere Erik van Lieshout Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva Rosemary Sullivan Erik van Lieshout Related Content Exhibition Graphic Witness 18 May 2017 – 9 July 2017 See more related content