Cornerstone Texts (A Review)
Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media
McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media
Mitchell "Pictures and Paragraphs" from Iconology; "Beyond Comparison: Image, Text, and Method" in Picture Theory
The Problem of Addressing Artistic Media with Linguistic Theory (An Ongoing Debate)
Schapiro, Meyer. "On Some Problems in the Semiotics of Visual Art: Field and Vehicle in Image-Signs." Semiotica, I, 1969, 223-242.
Painting
Armstrong, Philip, Laura Lisbon, and Stephen Melville, ed. As Painting: Division and Displacement. MIT Press, 2001
Bois, Yve-Alain. Painting as Model. MIT Press, 1993.
Cheetham, Mark Arthur. The Rhetoric of Purity: Essentialist Theory and the Advent of Abstract Painting. Ed. Norman Bryson. Cambridge UP, 1994.
Damisch, Hubert. A Theory of /Cloud/: Toward a History of Painting. Stanford UP, 2002.
Greenberg, Clement, "Towards a Newer Laocoon"
Krauss, Rosalind, "The Crisis of the Easel Picture" in Jackson Pollock: New Approaches, ed. Kirk Varnedoe and Pepe Karmel, Museum of Modern Art, 1999
Krauss, Rosalind, "A Voyage on the North Sea" in Art in the Age of the Postmedium Condition
The Frankfurt School
Adorno, Theodor, "Culture Industry Reconsidered"
_____. "On Some Relationships Between Music and Painting," in The Musical Quarterly 79 no. 1 (Spring 1995)
Adorno, Theodor and Max Horkheimer, "The Culture Industry,"
Benjamin ,Walter, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
The Social/Political Potential of the Media (A Review)
Baudrillard, Jean, "Requiem for the Media" in Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign
_____. "The Masses: The Implosion of the Social in the Media," in Selected Writings, ed. Mark Poster, Polity Press, 1988
Enzenberger, Hans Magnus, "Constituents of a Theory of Media"
Joselit, David, "An Allegory of Criticism," October Winter 2003 Issue 103
Poster, Mark, "Social Theory and the New Media," in The Information Subject (G+B Arts International, 2001
Hans Belting
Belting, Hans. Art History After Modernism. U of C Press, 2003
_____. Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image before the Era of Art. Trans. Edmund Jephcott. U of Chicago Press, 1994
Art and Perception
Baxandall, Michael. Patterns of Intention: On the Historical Explanation of Pictures. New Haven: Yale UP, 1985
Bernstein, J.M. "Aporia of the Sensible: Art, Objecthood and Anthropomorphism" in Interpreting Visual Culture: Explorations in the Hermeneutics of the Vision, edited by Ian Heywood and Barry Sandywell. NY: Routledge, 1998. 218-237
Bryson, Norman. Vision and Painting: The Logic of the Gaze. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.
Dewey, John. Art as Experience. NY: Minton, Balch & Co., 1934.
Luhmann, Niklas. Theories of Distinction: Redescribing the Descriptions of Modernity. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002
_____. Art as a Social System. Translated by Eva M. Knodt. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2000.
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception: An Introduction. London: Routledge & Paul, 1962.