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 CLOSE: Drawn Portraits, an exhibition that brings together historic figures, and recent and contemporary artists, revealing intimate encounters between artists and their subjects over the past 200 years. Titles marked with an asterisk * are held in Outset Study.
| Title | Author | Year | Selected by | ISBN | URL | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria * | Wendy Pearlman | Mounira Al Solh | Link | Amazon | ||
| Ghassan Kanafani's Letters to Ghada Saman | Ghada Saman | Mounira Al Solh | Link | Amazon | ||
| Woman at Point Zero | Nawal El Saadawi | Mounira Al Solh | Link | Amazon | ||
| Dreams Of Trespass: Tales Of A Harem Girlhood | Fatima Mernissi | Mounira Al Solh | Link | Amazon | ||
| Gorilla, My Love | Toni Cade Bambara | Claudette Johnson | Link | Amazon | ||
| Sula | Toni Morrison | Claudette Johnson | Link | Amazon | ||
| Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison | Claudette Johnson | Link | Amazon | ||
| The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison | Claudette Johnson | Link | Amazon | ||
| The Color Purple | Alice Walker | Claudette Johnson | Link | Amazon | ||
| For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide | Ntozake Shange | Claudette Johnson | Link | Amazon | ||
| Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson * | Soledad Brother | Claudette Johnson | Link | Amazon | ||
| Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone | James Baldwin | Claudette Johnson | Link | Amazon | ||
| DIE NIGGER DIE: A Political Autobiography | H. Rap Brown | Claudette Johnson | Link | Amazon | ||
| The Autobiography of Malcom X | Malcolm X | Claudette Johnson | Link | Amazon | ||
| The Fire Next Time | James Baldwin | Claudette Johnson | Link | Amazon | ||
| The Second Sex * | Simone de Beauvoir | Claudette Johnson | Link | Amazon | ||
| Sexual Politics * | Kate Millett | Claudette Johnson | Amazon | |||
| This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color * | Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa | Claudette Johnson | Link | Amazon | ||
| Kind of Blue [sound work] | Miles Davis | Claudette Johnson | Link | Amazon | ||
| Naima [sound work] | John Coltrane | Claudette Johnson | Link | Amazon | ||
| Love in Outta Space [sound work] | Sun Ra | Claudette Johnson | Amazon | |||
| Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am | Fela Kuti | Claudette Johnson | Link | Amazon | ||
| The Creator Has a Master Plan | Pharoah Sanders | Claudette Johnson | Link | Amazon | ||
| Jump for Joy | Sarah Vaughan | Claudette Johnson | Link | Amazon | ||
| Fine and Mellow | Billie Holiday | Claudette Johnson | Link | Amazon | ||
| In My Room | Jacob Collier | Claudette Johnson | Link | Amazon | ||
| Piano Concerto No. 5 in E♭ major, Op. 73 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Claudette Johnson | Amazon | |||
| Laurel and Hardy: Big Business [film] | James W. Horne | Michael Landy | Amazon | |||
| Elephant [film] | Alan Clarke | Michael Landy | Amazon | |||
| Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism Since the French Revolution * | Dario Gamboni | Michael Landy | Link | Amazon | ||
| On Kindness * | Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor | Michael Landy | Link | Amazon | ||
| Tinguely at the Tate Gallery * | Alan Bowness and Richard Calvocoressi | Michael Landy | Link | Amazon | ||
| The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints | Jacobus de Voragine | Michael Landy | Link | Amazon | ||
| Consumerism-As A Way Of Life | Steven Miles | Michael Landy | Link | Amazon | ||
| Breaking it up at the Museum [film] | D.A. Pennebaker | Michael Landy | Amazon | |||
| Mirror Mirror: Self-Portraits by Women Artists * | Liz Rideal | Deanna Petherbridge | Link | Amazon | ||
| Memoirs of the Blind: The Self-Portrait and Other Ruins * | Jacques Derrida | Deanna Petherbridge | Link | Amazon | ||
| Hanging the head: Portraiture and social formation in eighteenth-century England | Marcia R. Pointon | Deanna Petherbridge | Link | Amazon | ||
| Placing faces: the portrait in the country house in the long Eighteenth century | Edited by Gill Perry | Deanna Petherbridge | Link | Amazon | ||
| Artist’s self-portraits from the Uffizi collection [exhibition catalogue] | Edited by Giovanna Giusti Galardi | Deanna Petherbridge | Link | Amazon | ||
| The Intimate Portrait: Drawings, Miniatures and Pastels from Ramsay to Lawrence | By Stephen Lloyd and Kim Sloan | Deanna Petherbridge | Link | Amazon | ||
| Renaissance Self-portraiture: The Visual Construction of Identity and the Social Status of the Artist | Joanna Woods-marsden | Deanna Petherbridge | Link | Amazon | ||
| 'The Gabburi/Rogers series of drawn self-portraits and portraits of artists' [article] in Journal of the History of Collections, Vol. 5, no.2 (1993) p. 179-216 | Nicholas Turner | Deanna Petherbridge | Amazon | |||
| Rubens in Private: the Master Portrays his Family [exhibition catalogue] | Edited by Ben van Beneden | Deanna Petherbridge | Link | Amazon | ||
| Artists at Work [exhibition catalogue] | Deanna Petherbridge and Anita Viola Sganzerla | Deanna Petherbridge | Link | Amazon | ||
| Facing the World: Self-Portraits from Rembrandt to Ai Weiwei | By Michael Clarke et al. | Deanna Petherbridge | Link | Amazon | ||
| The Drawings of Bronzino | Carmen C. Bambach et al. | Jessica Voorsanger | Link | Amazon | ||
| Alice Neel: Painted Truths | Barry Walker et al. | Jessica Voorsanger | Link | Amazon | ||
| David Cassidy Annual 1975 * | Ann Hamilton | Jessica Voorsanger | Link | Amazon | ||
| Hamilton [musical score] | Lin-Manuel Miranda | Jessica Voorsanger | Link | Amazon | ||
| Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship With A Remarkable Man | William x William Shatner | Jessica Voorsanger | Link | Amazon | ||
| The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh | Edited by Mark Roskill | Jessica Voorsanger | Link | Amazon | ||
| Humans | Matt Haig | Jessica Voorsanger | Link | Amazon | ||
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | Jessica Voorsanger | Link | Amazon | ||
| Bye Bye Birdie [film] | Directed by George Sidney | Jessica Voorsanger | Link | Amazon | ||
| West Side Story | Directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise | Jessica Voorsanger | Link | Amazon | ||
| Lorna Simpson Collages | Lorna Simpson | Jessica Voorsanger | Link | Amazon | ||
| Whitechapel at War: Isaac Rosenberg and His Circle * | Rachel Dicksen | Clifton Wright | Link | Amazon | ||
| Colour Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay | Edited by Matilda McQuaid and Susan Brown | Clifton Wright | Link | Amazon | ||
| Picasso Portraits | Elizabeth Cowling | Clifton Wright | Link | Amazon | ||
| Picasso: the Line * | Carmen Giménez et al. | Clifton Wright | Link | Amazon |
Titles marked with an asterix * are held in the Outset Study library