For archival purposes I am publishing my reading list for spring 09. If you are curious about any of these books I have most of them and could give you feedback before you decide to check them out or make purchases.
- Philip Armstrong :: As Painting: Division and Displacement
- Sylvan Barnet :: A Short Guide to Writing about Art
- Terry Barrett :: Criticizing Photographs, An Introduction to Understanding Images
- Bill Beckley :: Uncontrollable Beauty: Toward a New Aesthetics
- Nicolas Bourriaud :: Postproduction
- David Campany:: Art and Photography
- Rainer Crone :: Louise Bourgeois The Secret of the Cells
- Keith Davis, Susan Krane, Britt Salvesen, and Claire Carter :: At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
- Catherine M. DeZegher :: Inside the Visible an elliptical traverse of the 20th century art, in, of, and from the feminine
- Larry Fink :: Social Graces
- Hal Foster :: The Return of the Real
- Tierney Gearon :: Daddy where are you?
- Elizabeth Grosz :: Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminine
- Kay Redfield Jamison :: Touched with Fire Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
- Donald Kuspit :: The End of Art
- Anne Lamott :: Bird by Bird Some Instructions on Writing and Life
- Lucy Lippard :: Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory
- Francis Morris :: Louise Bourgeois
- Mignon Nixon :: Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art
- Gerhard Richter :: Atlas
- Kimberlee Roth :: Surviving a Borderline Parent: How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds and Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem
- Susan Sontag :: Regarding the Pain of Others
- Botho Strau :: Gerhard Richter: Overpainted Photographs
- SarahThornton :: Seven Days in the Art World
- Glenn Ward :: Teach Yourself Postmodernism
- Tracey Warr :: The Artist's Body
- Art in America
- Artforum
- Aperture