Reading List

Here is the list of publications we have all contributed with, thanks for all your suggestions. Keep them coming.

·       “The return of the real: Art and Theory at the end of the Century: Anant-gard at the end of the century”. Hal Foster.

·       “One Place after another: site specific art and locational identity”. Miwon Kwon.

·       “The Craftsman.” Richard Sennet.

·       “The corrosion of Character: personal consequences of work in the new capitalism.” Richard Sennett.

·       “Staging the people: the proletarian and his double.” Jacques Ranciere.

·       “The Poetics of Space.” Gaston Bachelard.

·       “Space and Place.” Yi-Fu Tuan.

·       “Storming the Gates of Paradise.” RS Solnit

·       “Edgelands”. Michael Symmons Roberts, Paul Farley.

·       “Restless Cities.” Matthew Beaumont.

·       “The possibility of life’s Survival on the planet.” Patrick Keiller.

·       “Place (Art Works)”. Tacita Dean.

·       “Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography.” Karen Beckman, Jean Ma.

·       “The place of Artists’ cinema space, site and screen.” Maeve Connolly.

·       “The Anthropology of turquoise: reflections on desert, sea, stone, sky.” Meloy Ellen.

·       “History of the Staffordshire potteries: and the rise and progress of the manufacture of pottery and porcelain (1900).” Simeon Shaw

·       “Clayhanger” Arnold Bennett

·       Anna of the five towns.” Arnold Bennett

·       Memories of the Staffordshire potteries”. Mervyn Edwards

·        “The lost city of Stoke-on-Trent” Emma Bridgewater, Matthew Rice.

·       “A plated article. With an introductory account of the historical Spode-Copeland china works to which it refers.” Charles Dickens

·       “Spode-Copeland-Spode: its works and its people 1770-1970.” Vega Wilkinson

·       “Spode and Copeland: over two hundred years of fine china and porcelain. Steven Smith.

·       “Ruins”. Michel Makarius

·       “Drosscape: wasting land in urban America.” Alan Berger

·       “Exploring the site specific: issues of space and internationalism.” Judith Rugg

·       “Artificial Hells: participatory art and the politics of spectatorship.” Claire Bishop

·       “Site specific art: performance, place and documentation.” Nick Kaye

·       “Utopias.” Documents of contemporary art. Richard Nobel.

·       “Species of spaces and other pieces.” Georges Perec

·       “Evocative objects: things we think with.” Sherry Turkle

·        “Archive.” Documents of contemporary art, Charles Merewether

·       “Living as form: socially engaged art from 1991-2011.” N Thompson

·       “Nature.” Documents of contemporary art. Jeffrey Kastner.

·       “Approbation.” Documents of contemporary art. David Evans.

·       “Ruins”. Documents of contemporary art. Brian Dillon.

·       “Situation.” Documents of contemporary art. Claire Doherty.

·        “The Everyday.” Documents of contemporary art. Stephen Johnstone.

·       “Wanderlust: a History of walking.” Rebecca Solnit.

·       “News from nowhere: or, an epoch of rest. Being some chapters from a utopian romance.” William Morris

·       “A modern Utopia.” H G Wells

·       “Ecotopia” Ernest Callenbach

·        “Dead cities: and other tales.” Mike Davis

·       “The aesthetics of natural environments” Allen Carlson and Arnold Berleant

·       “The wild places.” Robert Macfarlane

·       “Art, ethics and environment: a free inquiry into the vulgarly received notion of nature.” Æsa Sigurjonsdottir, Olafur Pall Jonsson.

·       “The aesthetics of the natural environment.” Emily Brady

·       “Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes”. Andrew Blauveit; Walker Art Center, 2008

·       “Night Haunts; A journey through the London night.” Sukhdev Sandu; Verso, 2010  (see also associated website:   http://www.nighthaunts.org.uk)

·       “Bipolar Horizon.” Siri Hermansen

·       "Samtidsruinar". Marit Eikemo.

·       Persistent Memories: Pyramiden - A Soviet “Mining Town in the High Arctic”. Hein B. Bjerck, Bjørnar Olsen, Elin Andreassen.

·       "Den emansiperte tilskuer”. Jacques Rancière.

·       “The anthropology of Turquoise”. Ellen Leroy.

·       “New york trilogy”. Paul Auster.

·       “Communities of Sense -rethinking aesthetics and politics”

·       “The world of Downton Abbey.” Jessica Fellowes.