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READING LIST

The books on this list have influenced my artwork.


ART

Installation Art by Claire Bishop





Installation Art

Author: Claire Bishop
Year: 2011

Blood: Art, Power, Politics, and Pathology by James M. Bradburne





Blood: Art, Power, Politics, and Pathology

Author: James M. Bradburne
Year: 2002

Beyond Reason: Art and Psychosis Works From the Prinzhorn Collection by Laurent Busine, Bettina Brand-Claussen, Caroline Douglas, Inge Jadi





Beyond Reason: Art and Psychosis Works From the Prinzhorn Collection

Authors: Laurent Busine, Bettina Brand-Claussen, Caroline Douglas, Inge Jadi
Year: 1998

Critique Handbook: The Art Student's Sourcebook & Survival Guide by Kendall Buster, Paula Crawford





Critique Handbook: The Art Student's Sourcebook & Survival Guide

Authors: Kendall Buster, Paula Crawford
Year: 2009

On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century by C. Carr





On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century

Author: C. Carr
Year: 2008

Why Art Cannot Be Taught: A Handbook for Students by James Elkins





Why Art Cannot Be Taught: A Handbook for Students

Author: James Elkins
Year: 2001

Installation Art in the New Millennium by Nicolas De Oliveira





Installation Art in the New Millennium

Author: Nicolas De Oliveira 
Year: 2004

The Analysis of Performance Art: A Guide to Its Theory and Practice by Anthony Howell





Abject Art: Repulsion and Desire in American Art

Author: Craig Houser, Leslie C. Jones, Simon Taylor, Jack Ben-Levi
Year: 1993

The Analysis of Performance Art: A Guide to Its Theory and Practice by Anthony Howell





The Analysis of Performance Art: A Guide to Its Theory and Practice

Author: Anthony Howell
Year: 1999

Africa: The Art of a Continent by Tom Phillips





Africa: The Art of a Continent

Author: Tom Phillips
Year: 2003

Outsider Art: Spontaneous Art by Colin Rhodes





Outsider Art: Spontaneous Art

Author: Colin Rhodes
Year: 2000

Understanding Installation Art: From Duchamp to Holzer by Mark Rosenthal





Understanding Installation Art: From Duchamp to Holzer

Author: Mark Rosenthal
Year: 2003 

Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art by Maurice Tuchman





Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art

Author: Maurice Tuchman
Year: 1992

Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green by Michael Wilcox





Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green

Author: Michael Wilcox
Year: 2002


ANATOMY/MEDICAL

Mütter Museum: Historic Medical Photographs by College of Physicians of Philadelphia





Medicine in Art (A Guide to Imagery)

Author: Giorgio Borden, Laura D'Ambrosio
Year: 2010

Mütter Museum: Historic Medical Photographs by College of Physicians of Philadelphia





MEDICINE. A Treasury of Art and Literature

Author: College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Year: 1991

Mütter Museum: Historic Medical Photographs by College of Physicians of Philadelphia





Mütter Museum: Historic Medical Photographs

Author: College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Year: 2007


Colour Atlas of Anatomical Pathology by Robin A. Cooke, Brian Stewart





Colour Atlas of Anatomical Pathology

Authors: Robin A. Cooke, Brian Stewart
Year: 2004

Colour Atlas of Forensic Pathology by Jay Dix





Colour Atlas of Forensic Pathology

Author: Jay Dix
Year: 1999

Encyclopaedia Anatomica by Monika Von During, Marta Poggesi, Georges Didi-Huberman





Encyclopaedia Anatomica

Authors: Monika Von During, Marta Poggesi, Georges Didi-Huberman
Year: 1999

Body Worlds: The Original Exhibition of Real Human Bodies by Dr. Gunther von Hagens





Body Worlds: The Original Exhibition of Real Human Bodies

Author: Dr. Gunther von Hagens
Year: 2006

Embryos in Wax: Models from the Ziegler Studio by Nick Hopwood





Embryos in Wax: Models from the Ziegler Studio

Author: Nick Hopwood
Year: 2002

Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now by Martin Kemp, Marina Wallace





Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now

Authors: Martin Kemp, Marina Wallace
Year: 2000

Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery: The Complete Plates of 1831-1854 by Jean-Marie Le Minor, Henri Sick





Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery: The Complete Plates of 1831–1854

Authors: Jean-Marie Le Minor, Henri Sick
Year: 2012

The Quick and the Dead by Deanna Pethebridge, Ludmilla Jordanova





The Quick and the Dead

Authors: Deanna Pethebridge, Ludmilla Jordanova 
Year: 1998

Color Atlas of Anatomy by Johannes W. Rohen, Chihiro Yokochi





Color Atlas of Anatomy

Authors: Johannes W. Rohen, Chihiro Yokochi
Year: 1993

Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930 by John Harley Warner, James M. Edmonson





Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880–1930

Authors: John Harley Warner, James M. Edmonson 
Year: 2009


DEATH

Inquisition: A Bilingual Guide to the Exhibition of Torture Instruments by Robert Held





Inquisition: A Bilingual Guide to the Exhibition of Torture Instruments

Author: Robert Held
Year: 1987

Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies? by Kenneth Iserson





Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies?

Author: Kenneth Iserson
Year: 1994

Looking at Death by Barbara Norfleet





Looking at Death

Author: Barbara Norfleet
Year: 1994

The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture by Jonathan Sawday





The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture

Author: Jonathan Sawday
Year: 1996

Muerte! Death in Mexican Popular Culture by Harvey Bennett Stafford





Muerte! Death in Mexican Popular Culture

Author: Harvey Bennett Stafford
Year: 2000


DEATH: HISTORY

The History of Death: Burial Customs and Funeral Rites by Michael Kerrigan





The History of Death: Burial Customs and Funeral Rites

Author: Michael Kerrigan
Year: 2007

Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience by Clinton Bryant





Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience

Author: Clinton Bryant
Year: 2009
The Black Death: Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Medieval World by Joseph P. Byrne





The Black Death: Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Medieval World

Author: Joseph P. Byrne
Year: 2004

The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses by Paul Koudounaris





The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses

Author: Paul Koudounaris
Year: 2011

Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs by Paul Koudounaris





Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs

Author: Paul Koudounaris
Year: 2013

Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs by Paul Koudounaris





Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us

Author: Paul Koudounaris
Year: 2015



DEATH: VICTORIAN MOURNING
Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance by Geoffrey Batchen





Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance

Author: Geoffrey Batchen
Year: 2004

Collector's Encyclopedia of Hairwork Jewelry by Jeanenne Bell





Collector's Encyclopedia of Hairwork Jewelry

Author: Jeanenne Bell
Year: 1998

Fashionable Mourning Jewelry, Clothing  & Customs by Mary Brett





Fashionable Mourning Jewelry, Clothing  & Customs

Author: Mary Brett
Year: 2006


The Victorian Celebration of Death by James Stevens Curl





The Victorian Celebration of Death

Author: James Stevens Curl
Year: 2005

Mourning Art and Jewelry by Maureen DeLorme





Mourning Art and Jewelry

Author: Maureen DeLorme
Year: 2004

Picture





Decorative Straw Craft 

Author: Barbara Fitch
Year: 1998

Postmortem Collectibles by C. L. Miller





Postmortem Collectibles 

Author: C. L. Miller
Year: 2001

Memento Mori: Mourning Rings, Memorial Miniatures, and Hair Devices by John Hill Morgan





Memento Mori: Mourning Rings, Memorial Miniatures, and Hair Devices 
Article from The Magazine Antiques, March 1930

Author: John Hill Morgan
Year: 1930

Death, Heaven and the Victorians by John Morley





Death, Heaven and the Victorians 

Author: John Morley
Year: 1972

The Lock of Hair by A. Speight





The Lock of Hair

Author: A. Speight
Year: 1872

Mourning Dress: A Costume and Social History by Lou Taylor





Mourning Dress: A Costume and Social History

Author: Lou Taylor
Year: 2009

Horse Drawn Funeral Vehicles by Gattinoni Giles Deacon Vagrant





Horse Drawn Funeral Vehicles

Author: Gattinoni Giles Deacon Vagrant
Year: 2000


DEATH: VICTORIAN POST-MORTEM PHOTOGRAPHY

Secure the Shadow: Death and Photography in America by Jay Ruby





Secure the Shadow: Death and Photography in America

Author: Jay Ruby
Year: 1995

Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America by Stanley Burns





Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America

Author: Stanley Burns
Year: 1990

DEATH: FUNERAL AND GRIEVING

Facing Death: Images, Insights, and Interventions by Sandra L. Bertman





Facing Death: Images, Insights, and Interventions

Author: Sandra L. Bertman
Year: 1991

The Grief Recovery Handbook by John W. James, Russell Friedman





The Grief Recovery Handbook

Authors: John W. James, Russell Friedman
Year: 2009

Dealing Creatively with Death by Earnest Morgan





Dealing Creatively with Death

Author: Earnest Morgan
Year: 2001


CRIME

Shots in the Dark: True Crime Pictures by Gail Buckland





Shots in the Dark: True Crime Pictures

Author: Gail Buckland 
Year: 2001

Deadly Intent: Crime and Punishment Photographs from the Burns Archive by Stanley Burns





Deadly Intent: Crime and Punishment Photographs from the Burns Archive

Author: Stanley Burns
Year: 2008

Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook by Katherine Dunn





Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook

Author: Katherine Dunn
Year: 2000

A Fly for the Prosecution: How Insect Evidence Helps Solve Crimes by M. Lee Goff





A Fly for the Prosecution: How Insect Evidence Helps Solve Crimes

Author: M. Lee Goff
Year: 2001

Post-Mortem Procedures: An Illustrated Textbook by G. Austin Gresham, Arthur F. Turner





Post-Mortem Procedures: An Illustrated Textbook

Authors: G. Austin Gresham, Arthur F. Turner
Year: 1979

Post-Mortem: Establishing the Cause of Death by Steven Koehler, Cyril Wecht





Post-Mortem: Establishing the Cause of Death

Authors: Steven Koehler, Cyril Wecht
Year: 2006

Death Investigations: The Basics by Brad Randall





Death Investigations: The Basics

Author: Brad Randall
Year: 1997

Simpson's Forensic Medicine by Richard Shepherd





Simpson's Forensic Medicine, 13th Edition

Author: Richard Shepherd
Year: 2011

Trauma Code: On the Scene with Fire and Rescue by Sonny Shepherd





Trauma Code: On the Scene with Fire and Rescue

Author: Sonny Shepherd
Year: 1996

Illustrated True Crime: A Photographic Record by Colin Wilson, Damon Wilson





Illustrated True Crime: A Photographic Record

Authors: Colin Wilson, Damon Wilson
Year: 2002


PERIODICALS

ArtForum magazine







ArtForum

Art in America magazine







Art in America

Sculpture magazine







Sculpture

Sculpture Review magazine







Sculpture Review


Raw Vision magazine







Raw Vision

African Arts magazine







African Arts

Alarma! magazine







Alarma!

FILM/TELEVISION

Alive from Off Center TV Series





Alive from Off Center (1984–1987)

Director: Jonathan Demme
Stars: Laurie Anderson, Eric Bogosian, Ann Magnuson

Art in the Twenty-First Century TV Series





Art in the Twenty-First Century (2001–2012)
a.k.a. Art: 21

Creators: Susan Dowling, Susan Sollins
Stars: Charles Atlas, Brienne Arrington, Erika Fortner

Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis documentary





Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis (1991)

Director: Michael Blackwood
Writer: Bonnie Sue Stein (narration written by)
Stars: Ushio Amagatsu, Yoko Ashikawa, Akaji Maro

Dance of Darkness documentary






Dance of Darkness (1989)

Director: Edin Velez
Stars: Tatsumi Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno

Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality documentary





Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality (2003)

Director: Patrick Shen
Writers: Greg Bennick, Patrick Shen
Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Sam Keen, Ron Leifer

National Geographic: Moment of Death TV show





National Geographic: Moment of Death (2008)

Director: Mark Mannucci
Writer: Mark Mannucci
Stars: Benjamin Abella, Tarun Arora, Lance Becker

Sister Wendy TV series





Sister Wendy (1992–2002)

Directors: John Hooper, Allan Palmer, David Willcock
Stars: Wendy Beckett

Spark TV series





Spark (2003–2012)

Producer: KQED
Narrators: Victoria Mauleon, Pamela Z, David Dower































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