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 A Slice through the World: Contemporary Artists’ Drawings a group exhibition that celebrates the sustained power of drawing in the digital age, presented jointly by Drawing Room and Modern Art Oxford. Titles marked with an asterisk * are held in Outset Study.
| Title | Author | Year | Selected by | ISBN | URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trisha Brown: Choreography as Visual Art * | Susan Rosenberg | ruby onyinyechi amanze | Link | ||
| The Poetics of Space * | Gaston Bachelard | ruby onyinyechi amanze | Link | ||
| Marlene Dumas: Sweet Nothings, Notes and Texts, 1982-2014 * | Edited by Mariska Van Den Berg | ruby onyinyechi amanze | Link | ||
| One Day Pina Asked [Film] | Directed by Chantal Akerman | Milano Chow | Link | ||
| Safe [Film] | Directed By Todd Haynes | Milano Chow | Link | ||
| The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen | Karl Haendel | Link | ||
| Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China | Evan Osnos | Karl Haendel | Link | ||
| (((Semitism))): Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump | Jonathan Weisman | Karl Haendel | Link | ||
| The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History | Elizabeth Kolbert | Karl Haendel | Link | ||
| Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets | Svetlana Alexievich | Karl Haendel | Link | ||
| The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead | Karl Haendel | Link | ||
| Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason * | David Harvey | Karl Haendel | Link | ||
| A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System | T.R. Reid | Karl Haendel | Link | ||
| Digital and Other Virtualities: Renegotiating the Image * | Edited by Antony Griselda Pollock and Mieke Bal | David Haines | Link | ||
| Interdisciplinary Encounters: Hidden and Visible Explorations of the Work of Adrian Rifkin * | Dana Arnold | David Haines | Link | ||
| Letters to a Young Poet | Rainer Maria Rilke | David Haines | Link | ||
| Masters of Reality * | Steve Rushton | David Haines | Link | ||
| Our Lady of the Flowers | Jean Genet | David Haines | Link | ||
| The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety | Alan Watts | David Haines | Link | ||
| Thinking through Painting: Reflexivity and Agency Beyond the Canvas | By Peter Geimer et al. | David Haines | Link | ||
| Gravity and Grace * | Simone Weil | Ian Kiaer | Link | ||
| The Literary Absolute: The Theory of Literature in German Romanticism * | Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy | Ian Kiaer | Link | ||
| Girl with Curious Hair | David Foster Wallace | Ian Kiaer | Link | ||
| Old Masters * | Thomas Bernhard | Ian Kiaer | Link | ||
| The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins | Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing | Ian Kiaer | Link | ||
| Does Writing Have a Future? * | Villem Flusser | David Musgrave | Link | ||
| Drone Theory * | Gregoire Chamayou | David Musgrave | Link | ||
| The King | Donald Bartheleme | David Musgrave | Link | ||
| Kitchen Table Translation | Edited by Madhu Kaza | Wura Natasha Ogunji | Link | ||
| Swallow the Fish | Gabrielle Civil | Wura Natasha Ogunji | Link | ||
| The Paper Camera | Youmna Chlala | Wura Natasha Ogunji | |||
| Unexplained Presence * | Tisa Bryant | Wura Natasha Ogunji | Link | ||
| The Colour of Pomegranates [Film] | Directed By Sergei Parajanov | Wura Natasha Ogunji | Link | ||
| A book of Migrations | Rebecca Solnit | Kathy Prendergast | Link | ||
| Invisible Cities | Italo Calvino | Kathy Prendergast | Link | ||
| Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe | Kapka Kassabova | Kathy Prendergast | Link | ||
| Istanbul | Orhan Pamuk Pamuk | Kathy Prendergast | Link | ||
| Wind, Sand and Stars | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Kathy Prendergast | Link | ||
| The Atlas | William T. Vollman | Kathy Prendergast | Link | ||
| The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems | Jen Bervin et al. | Kathy Prendergast | Link | ||
| Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox | Victoria Finlay | Kathy Prendergast | Link | ||
| Flights | Olga Tokarczuk | Kathy Prendergast | Link | ||
| The Pursuit of Power 1815-1914 | Richard J. Evans | Kathy Prendergast | Link | ||
| I am David | Ann Holm | Kathy Prendergast | Link | ||
| Heidi | Johanna Spyri | Kathy Prendergast | Link | ||
| Dont log off [Radio podcast] BBC Radio 4, 2012-present | By Alan Dein | Kathy Prendergast | |||
| Crossing Continents [Radio podcast] BBC Radio 4, 2007-present | Kathy Prendergast | ||||
| Marketa Lazarová [Film] | Directed by Frantisek Vlácil | Kathy Prendergast | Link | ||
| The Lives of Others [Film] | Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Kathy Prendergast | Link | ||
| Pilgrims [Artists’ book] | Markéta Luskačová | Kathy Prendergast | Link | ||
| Media Crisis | Peter Watkins | Massinissa Selmani | Link | ||
| L'âne mort | Chawki Amari | Massinissa Selmani | |||
| L'effacement | Samir Toumi | Massinissa Selmani | |||
| Le plus petit zoo du monde | Thomas Gunzig | Massinissa Selmani | Link | ||
| Louise Michel en Algérie | Clotilde Chauvin | Massinissa Selmani | Link | ||
| Pour un nouvel art politique | Dominique Baqué | Massinissa Selmani | Link | ||
| The war game [Television drama] BBC, 1965 | Directed by Peter Watkins | Massinissa Selmani | Link | ||
| Blow out [Film] | Directed by Brian De Plama | Massinissa Selmani | Link | ||
| Mollement un samedi matin [Film] | Directed by Sofia Djama | Massinissa Selmani | |||
| The Reading Lesson [Film] | Directed by Johan Van der Keuken | Massinissa Selmani | |||
| The Waves | Virginia Woolf | Lucy Skaer | Link | ||
| Daybook: The Journal of an Artist * | Anne Truitt | Lucy Skaer | Link | ||
| The Animal Side * | Jean Christophe Bailly | Lucy Skaer | Link |
Titles marked with an asterix * are held in the Outset Study library