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 Double Take, a two-venue exhibition exploring the relationship between drawing and photography, taking place at Drawing Room and The Photographer’s Gallery, London. Titles marked with an asterisk * are held in Outset Study.
| Title | Author | Year | Selected by | ISBN | URL | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notes from Underground* | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Dove Allouche | 978-1503055582 | Link | Amazon | |
| Time Within Time: the Diaries 1970-86* | Andrey Tarkovsky | Dove Allouche | 978-0571167173 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Red Badge of Courage* | Stephen Crane | Dove Allouche | 978-1508482765 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Declared Enemy* | Jean Genet | Dove Allouche | 978-0804729468 | Link | Amazon | |
| Scholem, Arendt, Klemperer: Intimate Chronicles in Turbulent Times | Steven E. Aschheim | Dove Allouche | 978-0253338914 | Link | Amazon | |
| Armenian Poems | Sayat Nova | Dove Allouche | Amazon | |||
| The Crack Up | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Dove Allouche | 978-0811218207 | Link | Amazon | |
| A Violent Life* | P.P. Pasolini | Dove Allouche | 978-1857549638 | Link | Amazon | |
| Breathturn Into Timestead: the Collected Later Poetry * | Paul Celan | Dove Allouche | 978-0374125981 | Link | Amazon | |
| Starry Sky to Starry Sky* | Mary Jane White and Marina Tsvetaeva | Dove Allouche | 978-0930100254 | Link | Amazon | |
| Lenz* | Georg Büchner | Dove Allouche | 978-1482342901 | Link | Amazon | |
| Blood wedding* | Federico Garcia Lorca | Dove Allouche | 978-1854597922 | Link | Amazon | |
| The unknown masterpiece* | Honoré de Balzac | Dove Allouche | 978-0940322745 | Link | Amazon | |
| Circles * | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Josh Brand | 978-1429096249 | Link | Amazon | |
| The first book of rhythms | Langston Hughes | Josh Brand | Link | Amazon | ||
| Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana [sound work] | Alice Coltrane | Josh Brand | Link | Amazon | ||
| Work of Atget: Modern Times* | John Szarkowski, Maria Morris Hambourg | Margarita Gluzberg | 978-0860920823 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Accursed Share, Volume 1: Consumption* | George Bataille | Margarita Gluzberg | Link | Amazon | ||
| Theory of Religion* | Georges Bataille | Margarita Gluzberg | 978-0942299090 | Link | Amazon | |
| Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence* | Andrew Juniper | Margarita Gluzberg | 978-0804834827 | Link | Amazon | |
| In Praise Of Shadows* | Junichiro Tanizaki | Margarita Gluzberg | 978-0099283577 | Link | Amazon | |
| Madame Bovary* | Gustave Flaubert | Margarita Gluzberg | 978-0140449129 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Wild Ass's Skin (La Peau De Chagrin)* | Honoré de Balzac | Margarita Gluzberg | 978-0140443301 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Big Sleep, 1946 [film] | Howard Hawks | Margarita Gluzberg | Link | Amazon | ||
| Hans Poelzig: Reflections on His Life and Work | Julius Posener | Matt Saunders | 978-0262161275 | Link | Amazon | |
| Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror | John Ashbery | Matt Saunders | 978-1857549065 | Link | Amazon | |
| Poems and Prose | Gerard Manley Hopkins | Matt Saunders | 978-0140420159 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Collected Poems | Wallace Stevens | Matt Saunders | 978-1101911686 | Link | Amazon | |
| Posthumous Papers of a Living Author | Robert Musil | Matt Saunders | 978-0976395041 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Experience Machine: Stan Vanderbeek's Movie-Drome and Expanded Cinema | Gloria Sutton | Matt Saunders | 978-0262028493 | Link | Amazon | |
| Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media * | Giuliana Bruno | Matt Saunders | 978-0226104942 | Link | Amazon | |
| Wait for me at the Bottom of the Pool: the Writings of Jack Smith (esp. “The Perfect Filmic Appositeness of Maria Montez,” “The Memoirs of Maria Montez”) | Jack Smith | Matt Saunders | 978-1852424282 | Link | Amazon | |
| Male Fantasies Volume 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History | Klaus Theweleit | Matt Saunders | 978-0745603834 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays (esp. “The Mass Ornament,” “Boredom,” ”Cult of Distraction,” ”The Hotel Lobby,” ”Those Who Wait”) | Siegfried Kracauer | Matt Saunders | 978-0674551633 | Link | Amazon | |
| Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings (esp. “A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic New Jersey” but, honestly, everything.) * | Robert Smithson | Matt Saunders | 978-0520203853 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Art Of Memory | Frances A. Yates | Matt Saunders | 978-1847922922 | Link | Amazon | |
| Hamlet, 1921 [film] | Svend Gade | Matt Saunders | Link | Amazon | ||
| A Touch of Zen, 1970 [film] | King Hu | Matt Saunders | Link | Amazon | ||
| Raining in the Mountain, 1979 [film] | King Hu | Matt Saunders | Link | Amazon | ||
| People On Sunday, 1929 [film] | Edgar G. Ulmer | Matt Saunders | Link | Amazon | ||
| Der Golem, 1920 (The Golem, How He Came into the World) [film] | Carl Boese | Matt Saunders | Link | Amazon | ||
| Baal, 1970 [film] | Volker Schlöndorff | Matt Saunders | Link | Amazon | ||
| The Dyer's Hand | W.H. Auden | Matt Saunders | 978-0571283507 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Goshawk | T.H. White | Matt Saunders | 978-1474601665 | Link | Amazon | |
| The work of Robert Walser | Matt Saunders | Amazon | ||||
| The Puritan Ordeal | Andrew Delbanco Delbanco | Matt Saunders | 978-0674740563 | Link | Amazon | |
| Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets | Edwin Denby | Matt Saunders | Link | Amazon | ||
| The Anarchy of the Imagination: Interviews, Essays, Notes (esp. “The Cities of Humanity and the Human Soul: Some Unorganized Thoughts on Alfred Döblin’s Novel, Berlin Alexanderplatz”) | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Matt Saunders | 978-0801843693 | Link | Amazon | |
| The critic as artist | Oscar Wilde | Matt Saunders | 978-1516852215 | Link | Amazon | |
| Observations on the Long Take [article] in October, Vol. 13 (Summer, 1980), pp. 3-6 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Matt Saunders | Amazon | |||
| Women as Hamlet: Performance and Interpretation in Theatre, Film and Fiction (esp. “’I am who I play’: Asta Nielsen”) | Tony Howard | Matt Saunders | 978-0521117210 | Link | Amazon | |
| “Picasso’s Sleepwatchers” and “The Algerian Women and Picasso At Large”in "Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art" | Leo Steinberg | Matt Saunders | 978-0226771854 | Link | Amazon | |
| “Watteau and reverie” in "Word and Image: French Painting of the Ancien Régime: French Painting of the Ancien Regime" | Norman Bryson | Matt Saunders | 978-0521276542 | Link | Amazon | |
| “Matisse and Arche-drawing” in "Painting as Model" * | Yve-alain Bois | Matt Saunders | 978-0262521802 | Link | Amazon | |
| ''A Voyage on the North Sea'': Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition | Rosalind Krauss | Matt Saunders | 978-0500282076 | Link | Amazon | |
| "Should an Eyelash Last Forever? An Interview with Ray Johnson." [article] in Lotta Poetica 2 (February 1984): 3-24. | Matt Saunders | Amazon | ||||
| 'What is an Apparatus?' and Other Essays | Giorgio Agamben | Thomas Zummer | 978-0804762304 | Link | Amazon | |
| Signature of All Things | Giorgio Agamben | Thomas Zummer | 978-1890951986 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Open: Man and Animal, translated by Kevin Attell | Giorgio Agamben | Thomas Zummer | Link | Amazon | ||
| Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive | Giorgio Agamben | Thomas Zummer | 978-1890951177 | Link | Amazon | |
| Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life | Giorgio Agamben | Thomas Zummer | 978-0804732185 | Link | Amazon | |
| Stanzas: The Word and the Phantasm in Western Culture | Giorgio Agamben | Thomas Zummer | 978-0816620388 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Man without Content | Giorgio Agamben | Thomas Zummer | 978-0804735544 | Link | Amazon | |
| Giorgio Agamben, cited/excerpted in “Vox Clamans in Deserto.” Jean‐Luc Nancy, translated by Nathalia King, in Notebooks in Cultural Analysis, Volume 3, a Special Issue on “Voice”, ed., Norman F. Cantor and Nathalia King [Durham: Duke University Press] 1986. pp. 3‐14. [article] | Giorgio Agamben | Thomas Zummer | Amazon | |||
| “The Rhetoric of the Image” in "Image Music Text" * | Roland Barthes | Thomas Zummer | 978-0006861355 | Link | Amazon | |
| Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography * | Roland Barthes | Thomas Zummer | 978-0099225416 | Link | Amazon | |
| ‘Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit,’ in Gesammelte Schriften, 1/2 [Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp] 1980 | Walter Benjamin | Thomas Zummer | Amazon | |||
| Gesammelte Schriften, [Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp] 1980 | Walter Benjamin | Thomas Zummer | Amazon | |||
| Problems in General Linguistics | Emile Benveniste | Thomas Zummer | 978-0870241321 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Invention of Morel and Other Stories | Adolfo Bioy-Casares | Thomas Zummer | 978-0292738409 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Technical Image: A History of Styles in Scientific Imagery | Horst Bredekamp, Vera Dankel | Thomas Zummer | 978-0226258843 | Link | Amazon | |
| Archaeology of the Cinema | C. W. Ceram | Thomas Zummer | Link | Amazon | ||
| Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology | Patricia Ticineto Clough | Thomas Zummer | 978-0816628889 | Link | Amazon | |
| Le récit spéculaire: Essai sur la mise en abyme | Lucien Dällenbach | Thomas Zummer | 978-2020045568 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals | Charles Darwin | Thomas Zummer | 978-1522766353 | Link | Amazon | |
| Heterologies: Discourse on the Other | Michel de Certeau | Thomas Zummer | 978-0719014789 | Link | Amazon | |
| Jacques Derrida with Mark Lewis and Andrew Payne, “La danse des fantômes: Entrevue avec Jacques Derrida”/“Ghost Dance: An Interview with Jacques Derrida,” in Public 2, The Lunatic on One Idea, 1989 [article] | Thomas Zummer | Amazon | ||||
| Echographies of Television | Jacques Derrida, Bernard Stiegler | Thomas Zummer | 978-0745620374 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Animal That Therefore I Am | Jacques Derrida | Thomas Zummer | 978-0823227914 | Link | Amazon | |
| Margins of Philosophy | Jacques Derrida | Thomas Zummer | 978-0226143262 | Link | Amazon | |
| Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression | Jacques Derrida | Thomas Zummer | 978-0226143675 | Link | Amazon | |
| Writing and Difference | Jacques Derrida | Thomas Zummer | 978-0415253833 | Link | Amazon | |
| Discours de la methode ;: Plus La dioptrique ; Les meteores ; et La geometrie | René Descartes | Thomas Zummer | 978-2213016993 | Link | Amazon | |
| Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. Dick | Thomas Zummer | 978-0575079939 | Link | Amazon | |
| Confronting Images: Questioning the Ends of a Certain History of Art * | Georges Didi-Huberman | Thomas Zummer | 978-0271024721 | Link | Amazon | |
| Into the Universe of Technical Images | Vilem Flusser | Thomas Zummer | 978-0816670215 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Birth of the Clinic | Michel Foucault | Thomas Zummer | Link | Amazon | ||
| Sécurité, territoire, population : Cours au Collège de France (1977-1978) | Michel Foucault | Thomas Zummer | 978-2020307994 | Link | Amazon | |
| Naissance de la Biopolitique, Cours au Collège de France, 1978-1979 | Michel Foucault | Thomas Zummer | 978-2020324014 | Link | Amazon | |
| Materialities of Communication | Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, K. Ludwig Pfeiffer | Thomas Zummer | Link | Amazon | ||
| “The Cinema of Attractions: Early Film, Its Spectator, and the Avant-Garde,” in "Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative" Edited by Thomas Elsaesser with Adam Barker * | Tom Gunning | Thomas Zummer | 978-0851702452 | Link | Amazon | |
| “The Age of the World Picture,” in The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays | Martin Heidegger | Thomas Zummer | 978-0062290700 | Link | Amazon | |
| ‘Die Zeit des Weltbildes” in "Holzwege" | Martin Heidegger | Thomas Zummer | 978-3465032380 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr | E.T.A. Hoffmann | Thomas Zummer | 978-0140446319 | Link | Amazon | |
| Releasing the Image: From Literature to New Media * | Jacques Khalip | Thomas Zummer | Link | Amazon | ||
| “Linguistics and Poetics,” in "Style in Language" edited by Thomas Sebeok | Roman Jakobson | Thomas Zummer | 978-0262690102 | Link | Amazon | |
| Gramophone, Film, Typewriter * | Friedrich A. Kittler | Thomas Zummer | 978-0804732338 | Link | Amazon | |
| Discourse Networks, 1800/1900 | Friedrich A. Kittler | Thomas Zummer | 978-0804720991 | Link | Amazon | |
| Draculas Vermächtnis: Technischen Schriften | Friedrich A. Kittler | Thomas Zummer | 978-9057010613 | Link | Amazon | |
| Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings | Emmanuel Levinas | Thomas Zummer | 978-0253210791 | Link | Amazon | |
| On the Nature of the Universe | Lucretius | Thomas Zummer | 978-0199555147 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Crossing of the Visible | Jean-Luc Marion | Thomas Zummer | 978-0804733922 | Link | Amazon | |
| “Eye and Mind,” in The primacy of perception, and other essays on phenomenological psychology, the philosophy of art, history, and politics * | Maurice Merleau-Ponty | Thomas Zummer | Link | Amazon | ||
| The Pleasure in Drawing * | Jean-Luc Nancy | Thomas Zummer | 978-0823250943 | Link | Amazon | |
| Varieties of Presence | Alva Noë | Thomas Zummer | 978-0674062146 | Link | Amazon | |
| Action in Perception | Alva Noë | Thomas Zummer | 978-0262640633 | Link | Amazon | |
| Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness | Alva Noë | Thomas Zummer | 978-0809016488 | Link | Amazon | |
| Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature | Alva Noë | Thomas Zummer | 978-0809089178 | Link | Amazon | |
| The World of Silence | Max Picard | Thomas Zummer | 978-0971748316 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Natural History of Pliny Volume 2 | Pliny The Elder | Thomas Zummer | 978-1314099492 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Natural History Of Pliny, Volume 4 | Pliny The Elder | Thomas Zummer | 978-1286459270 | Link | Amazon | |
| Picture Control: Electron Microscope and the Transformation of Biology in America, 1940-60 | Nicolas Rasmussen | Thomas Zummer | 978-0804738507 | Link | Amazon | |
| After-Images of the City | Joan Ramon Resina, Dieter Ingenschay | Thomas Zummer | 978-0801487897 | Link | Amazon | |
| Event and World | Claude Romano | Thomas Zummer | 978-0823229710 | Link | Amazon | |
| Heidegger on Being and Acting: From Principles to Anarchy | Reiner Schurmann | Thomas Zummer | 978-0253206022 | Link | Amazon | |
| A Sentimental Journey: Memoirs 1917-1922 | Viktor Shklovsky | Thomas Zummer | 978-1564783547 | Link | Amazon | |
| Relays: Literature as an Epoch of the Postal System | Bernhard Siegart | Thomas Zummer | 978-0804732383 | Link | Amazon | |
| On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection | Susan Stewart | Thomas Zummer | 978-0822313663 | Link | Amazon | |
| Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of Representation | Susan Stewart | Thomas Zummer | 978-0822315452 | Link | Amazon | |
| Poetry and the Fate of the Senses | Susan Stewart | Thomas Zummer | 978-0226774145 | Link | Amazon | |
| Technics and Time: The Fault of Epimetheus No. 1 | Bernard Stiegler | Thomas Zummer | 978-0804730419 | Link | Amazon | |
| Saturn’s Children | Charles Stross | Thomas Zummer | 978-1841495682 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture | Mark C. Taylor | Thomas Zummer | 978-0226791173 | Link | Amazon | |
| Tomorrow's Eve | Villiers de l'Isle-Adam | Thomas Zummer | 978-0252069550 | Link | Amazon | |
| War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception | Paul Virilio | Thomas Zummer | 978-1844673469 | Link | Amazon | |
| A Landscape of Events | Paul Virilio | Thomas Zummer | 978-0262720342 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Vision Machine | Paul Virilio | Thomas Zummer | 978-0851704449 | Link | Amazon | |
| ‘Projection and Dis/Embodiment: Genealogies of the Virtual” in "Moving Image" edited by Omar Kholeif (Documents of Contemporary Art) | Thomas Zummer | Thomas Zummer | 978-0854882380 | Link | Amazon | |
| “Variables: Notations on Stability, Permeability, and Plurality in Media Artifacts,” in "Saving the Image: Art After Film" edited by Tanya Leighton and Pavel Buchler, [Glasgow and Manchester: Center for Photography/Glasgow and Manchester Metropolitan University] 2003 | Thomas Zummer | Thomas Zummer | Amazon | |||
| ‘( explosion )’ in "Is this what you were born for? : Stratégies d'appropriation et collage audio-visuel dans les films d'Abigail Child" edited by by François Bovier [film] | Thomas Zummer | Thomas Zummer | 978-2940406265 | Link | Amazon | |
| "The Appearance of Animals" (Leslie Thornton) | Ventriloquoy (名) 腹语术 (Ellen Zweig)’ in "Split Attention" edited by Fan Lin [Shanghai, China: 53art press] 2012 | Thomas Zummer | Thomas Zummer | Amazon |
Titles marked with an asterix * are held in the Outset Study library