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 Everything We Do Is Music, a major new exhibition that explores how Indian classical music has inspired modern and contemporary artists. Titles marked with an asterisk * are held in Outset Study.
| Title | Author | Year | Selected by | ISBN | URL | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rupak / 2016-2017 [Exhibition publication accompanying Lala Rukh’s commission for Documenta 14] | Saira Ansari | Amazon | ||||
| Nasreen Mohamedi: Waiting is a Part of Intense Living * | Roobina Karode | Saira Ansari | Link | Amazon | ||
| A conversation with Shahzia Sikander [online] | By Anita Dawood, in OCULA Conversations (18 March 2016) | Saira Ansari | Link | Amazon | ||
| More or Less: Radical minimalism from India and Pakistan [online] | By Shanay Jhaveri, in Frieze, no, 172 (June-August 2015) | Saira Ansari | Link | Amazon | ||
| Lala Rukh: Introduction [online] | By Natasha Ginwala, in South Magazine, Issue #8 [documenta 14 #3], (2016) | Saira Ansari | Link | Amazon | ||
| Lala Rukh: Lines of Agency | By Natasha Ginwala, in MARG, Vol. 68, Number 1, (September – December 2016), pp 34-39 | Saira Ansari | Amazon | |||
| Lala Rukh [In Sharjah Biennial 12 Catalogue: The past, the present, the possible] | By Mariah Lookman * | Saira Ansari | Amazon | |||
| Atlas Mnemosyne / Mnemosyne Atlas | Aby Warburg | Sarnath Banerjee | Link | Amazon | ||
| Codex Seraphinianus | Luigi Serafini | Sarnath Banerjee | Link | Amazon | ||
| Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer * | Ben Katchor | Sarnath Banerjee | Link | Amazon | ||
| Amphigorey: Fifteen Books | Edward Gorey | Sarnath Banerjee | Link | Amazon | ||
| Dore’s London: All 180 Illustrations from London, A Pilgrimage * | Gustave Dore | Sarnath Banerjee | Link | Amazon | ||
| Gasoline Alley: The Complete Sundays Volume 1, 1920-1922 | Frank King | Sarnath Banerjee | Link | Amazon | ||
| Winsor McCay: The Complete Little Nemo (1905-1909) | Winsor McCay | Sarnath Banerjee | Link | Amazon | ||
| Satie, Ravel, Poulenc | Manuel Rosenthal | Francesco Clemente | Link | Amazon | ||
| Commentaries on Living: First Series, Chapter 27 `The Radio and Music' [Online] | J. Krishnamurti | Francesco Clemente | Link | Amazon | ||
| The Inner Nature of Music and the Experience of Tone * | Rudolf Steiner | Francesco Clemente | Link | Amazon | ||
| The Mysticism of Sound and Music: The Sufi Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan * | Hazrat Inayat Khan | Francesco Clemente | Link | Amazon | ||
| Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman | Edited by B.H. Friedman | Francesco Clemente | Link | Amazon | ||
| Indian Music and the West * | Gerry Farrell | Alexander Keefe | Link | Amazon | ||
| Textiles and Ornaments Of India: A Selection Of Designs | Edited by Monroe Wheeler | Alexander Keefe | Link | Amazon | ||
| Pather Panchali: Song of the Road | By Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, translated by T.W. Clark and Tarapada Mukherji, | Alexander Keefe | Link | Amazon | ||
| On the Edge of America: California Modernist Art 1900-1950 | Edited by Paul J. Karlstrom | Alexander Keefe | Link | Amazon | ||
| How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America | Rick Fields | Alexander Keefe | Link | Amazon | ||
| Pandit Ravi Shankar - Tansen of Our Times [online] | Lecture by S. Kalidas at the India International Center, New Delhi, 2013 | Alexander Keefe | Link | Amazon | ||
| Sound and Light: La Monte Young Marian Zazeela* | Edited by William Duckworth and Richard Fleming | Alexander Keefe | Link | Amazon | ||
| Marian Zazeela: Drawings * | Edited by Uli Schägger | Alexander Keefe | Link | Amazon | ||
| Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass | Keith Potter | Alexander Keefe | Link | Amazon | ||
| La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela at the Dream House [online] | Interview by Frank Oteri, 2003 | Alexander Keefe | Link | Amazon | ||
| Terry Riley: Obsessed and Passionate About All Music | In conversation with Frank Oteri, 2001 | Alexander Keefe | Link | Amazon | ||
| The Dynaton Revisited [In California: 5 Footnotes to Modern Art History] | Edited by Stephanie Barron | Alexander Keefe | Link | Amazon | ||
| Lee Mullican * [exhibition catalogue] | Published by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1965 | Alexander Keefe | Amazon | |||
| Lee Mullican: Paintings 1965-1969 [exhibition catalogue] | Published by UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles, 1969 | Alexander Keefe | Link | Amazon | ||
| Visions of Inner Space: Gestural Painting in Modern American Art [exhibition catalogue] | Published by Wight Art Gallery UCLA, Los Angeles, 1987 | Alexander Keefe | Link | Amazon | ||
| The Rebirth of Hindu Music * | Dane Rudhyar | Alexander Keefe | Link | Amazon | ||
| Long Time Gone: the Autobiography of David Crosby | David Crosby and Carl Gottlieb | Alexander Keefe | Link | Amazon | ||
| Lord of Light | Roger Zelazny | Alexander Keefe | Link | Amazon | ||
| The music of T.M Krishna | Prabhavathi Meppayil | Amazon | ||||
| The music of Kishori Amonkar | Prabhavathi Meppayil | Amazon | ||||
| Every Day is a Good Day: The Visual Art of John Cage * | Jeremy Miller | Michael Müller | Link | Amazon | ||
| Mondrian and Music [exhibition catalogue] | Published by Stichting Mondriaan, Amsterdam, 1994 | Michael Müller | Amazon | |||
| The Music of Painting | Peter Vergo | Michael Müller | Link | Amazon | ||
| The Music of Painting: Music, Modernism and the Visual Arts from the Romantics to John Cage | Peter Vergo | Shahzia Sikander | Link | Amazon | ||
| Ragachitra: Deccani Ragamala Paintings | Dr. Daljeet | Shahzia Sikander | Link | Amazon | ||
| Pahari Paintings in the Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art | Jagdish Mittal and John Seyller | Shahzia Sikander | Link | Amazon | ||
| The life of Forms in Art * | Henri Focillon | Shahzia Sikander | Link | Amazon | ||
| A Universe from Nothing | Lawrence M. Krauss | Shahzia Sikander | Link | Amazon | ||
| The Distance of a Shout: Poetry from Pakistan, Urdu Poems with English Translations * | Kishwar Naheed | Shahzia Sikander | Link | Amazon | ||
| Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics * | Bell Hooks | Shahzia Sikander | Link | Amazon | ||
| Vertical Thoughts: Morton Feldman and the visual arts [exhibition catalogue] | Published by Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2010 | Dayanita Singh | Link | Amazon | ||
| Letters to a Young Poet | Rainer Maria Rilke | Dayanita Singh | Link | Amazon | ||
| A Room of One's Own | Virginia Woolf | Dayanita Singh | Link | Amazon | ||
| In Praise of Shadows * | Junichiro Tanizaki | Dayanita Singh | Link | Amazon | ||
| Austerlitz * | W.G. Sebald | Dayanita Singh | Link | Amazon | ||
| Difficult Loves | Italo Calvino | Dayanita Singh | Link | Amazon |
Titles marked with an asterix * are held in the Outset Study library