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 by artists included in FIGURE/S: drawing after Bellmer, an exhibition that explores the body as a site of oppression, liberation and troubling pleasures through the work of modern and contemporary artists. Titles marked with an asterisk * are held in Outset Study. This list is continued in FIGURE/S: drawing after Bellmer, Artists’ Reading Lists Part 2.
| Title | Author | Selected by |
|---|---|---|
| Corpus | Jean-Luc Nancy | Rebecca Jagoe |
| Sensation and Sex | Lucretius | Rebecca Jagoe |
| The Sex Appeal of the Inorganic | Mario Perniola | Rebecca Jagoe |
| The Art of Courtly Love | Andreas Capellanus | Rebecca Jagoe |
| Les Liasons Dangereuses | Pierre Choderlos de Laclos | Rebecca Jagoe |
| On Love | Stendhal | Rebecca Jagoe |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | Rebecca Jagoe |
| Pygmalion’ in Metamorphoses | Ovid | Rebecca Jagoe |
| Eros the Bittersweet | Anne Carson | Rebecca Jagoe |
| A Lover’s Discourse | Roland Barthes | Rebecca Jagoe |
| The Art of Loving | Erich Fromm | Rebecca Jagoe |
| Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality | James A. Schultz | Rebecca Jagoe |
| Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud | Thomas Lacquer | Rebecca Jagoe |
| Premodern Sexualities | Louise Fradenburg | Rebecca Jagoe |
| The Freudian Body | Leo Bersani | Rebecca Jagoe |
| Before Sexuality | Edited by David M. Halperin et al. | Rebecca Jagoe |
| The Promise of Happiness | Sara Ahmed | Rebecca Jagoe |
| Sex, or the Unbearable | Lauren Berland & Lee Edelman | Rebecca Jagoe |
| Refiguring Lesbian Desire [Book chapter] In ‘Space, Time and Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies' | Elizabeth Grosz | Rebecca Jagoe |
| All about love | Bell Hooks | Rebecca Jagoe |
| A Defense of Marriage Act | Malik Gaines | Rebecca Jagoe |
| ‘Objectification’ [journal article] In 'Philosophy & Public Affairs' Vol. 24, No. 4 (Autumn, 1995), pp. 249-291 (43 pages) | Martha Nussbaum | Rebecca Jagoe |
| From Communion to Cannibalism | Maggie Kilgour | Rebecca Jagoe |
| Gut Feminism | Elizabeth A. Wilson | Rebecca Jagoe |
| Carnal Appetites | Elspeth Probyn | Rebecca Jagoe |
| The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer | Brian Masters | Rebecca Jagoe |
| Killing for Company: The Case of Dennis Nilsen | Brian Masters | Rebecca Jagoe |
| The Man Who Could Not Kill Enough: The Secret Murders of Milwaukee’s Jeffrey Dahmer | Anne E. Schwartz | Rebecca Jagoe |
| Savage Appetites | Rachel Monroe | Rebecca Jagoe |
| In My Arms | Kylie Minogue | Rebecca Jagoe |
| These Arms of Mine | Otis Reading | Rebecca Jagoe |
| (I Just) Died in Your Arms [Music] | Cutting Crew | Rebecca Jagoe |
| Right Back Here in My Arms [Music] | Prince | Rebecca Jagoe |
| Orphée [film] | Jean Cocteau | Rebecca Jagoe |
| Beauty and the Beast [film] | Jean Cocteau | Rebecca Jagoe |
| Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia and Post-human Love | Joanna Bourke | Marianna Simnett |
| Elena Passarello, Animals Strike Curious Poses | Leonora Carrington | Marianna Simnett |
| The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington | Leonora Carrington | Marianna Simnett |
| Laocoon: An essay upon the limits of painting and poetry. With remarks illustrative of various points in the history of ancient art | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Fuyuko Matsui |
| L'Esthétique | Denis Huisman | Fuyuko Matsui |
| Hatsujo Sochi: Erosu No Shinario (発情装置―エロスのシナリオ) | Chizuko Ueno (上野千鶴子） | Fuyuko Matsui |
| Truth and Actuality | Jiddu Krishnamurti | Fuyuko Matsui |
| Taiji no Sekai (胎児の世界) | Miki Shigeo (三木成夫) | Fuyuko Matsui |
| The Color of Pomegranates [Film] | Directed by Sergei Parajanov | Kumi Machida |
| The Color of Pomegranates [Film] | Directed by Sergei Parajanov | Kumi Machida |
| The Legend of Suram Fortress [Film] | Directed by Dodo Abashidze and Sergei Parajanov | Kumi Machida |
| The Legend of Suram Fortress [Film] | Directed by Dodo Abashidze and Sergei Parajanov | Kumi Machida |
| Ashik Kerib [Film] | Directed by Dodo Abashidze and Sergei Parajanov | Kumi Machida |
| Ashik Kerib [Film] | Directed by Dodo Abashidze and Sergei Parajanov | Kumi Machida |
| Wild Horses of Fire [Film] | Directed by Sergei Parajanov | Kumi Machida |
| Wild Horses of Fire [Film] | Directed by Sergei Parajanov | Kumi Machida |
| Something Leather | Alasdair Gray | Neil Gall |
| The Optical Unconscious | Rosalind E. Krauss | Neil Gall |
| Drapery, Classicism and Barbarism in Visual Culture | Gen Doy | Neil Gall |
| Carroll Dunham Paintings | New Museum of Contemporary Art | Neil Gall |
| The Uncanny: Mike Kelley | Mike Kelley | Neil Gall |
| De Kooning: a Retrospective | John Elderfield | Neil Gall |
| Only Make Believe: Ways of Playing [Exhibition Catalogue] | Marina Warner | Neil Gall |
| The Other Face: The Mask in the Arts | Walter Sorell | Neil Gall |
| Art Sex Music | Cosey Fanni Tutti | Neil Gall |
| 20 Jazz Funk Greats: Throbbing Gristle | Industrial Records | Neil Gall |
| Euripides: Bakkhai | Translated by Anne Carson | Sharon Kivland |
| 'Sigmund Freud. Joseph Breuer, Studies on Hysteria' in 'The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Vol. II' | Translated by Alix and James Strachey | Sharon Kivland |
| Écrits: A Selection | Jacques Lacan | Sharon Kivland |
| Zazie dans le metro | Raymond Queneau | Sharon Kivland |
| Le grand incendie de Londres | Jacques Roubaud | Sharon Kivland |
| Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World | Anna Arabindan-Kesson | Jade Montserrat |
| A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging | Dionne Brand | Jade Montserrat |
| In the wake: on Blackness and being | Christina Sharpe | Jade Montserrat |
| Lose your mother: a journey along the Atlantic slave route | Saidiya Hartman | Jade Montserrat |
| Poetics of Relation | Edouard Glissant | Jade Montserrat |
| Discourse on Colonialism | Aimé Cesaire | Jade Montserrat |
| cotton.com [Artwork] | Lubaina Himid | Jade Montserrat |
| Monica Ross: ethical actions, a critical fine art practice | Edited by Suzanne Treister and Susan Hiller | Jade Montserrat |
| Law and Order (Esprits Criminels) [Television series] | Jean-Luc Moulène | |
| The Puppet Theatre | Heinrich Von Kleist | John Murphy |
| Possessions | Julia Kristeva | John Murphy |
| Language and the “Feminine” in Nietzsche and Heidegger | Jean Graybeal | John Murphy |
| The Man of Jasmine | Unica Zurn | Paul Noble |
| In The Land Of Magic | Henri Michaux | Paul Noble |
| Y Gododdin, Aneirin | A.O.H. Jarman | Chloe Piene |
| The Celts | T.G.E. Powell | Chloe Piene |
| 20,000 Years of Fashion | Francois Boucher | Chloe Piene |
| Die Zeichnungen Hans Baldung Grien | Carl Koch | Chloe Piene |
| Lieder Des Ghettos | E.M. Lilien | Chloe Piene |
| Medardo Rosso, Cooper, | Harry | Chloe Piene |
| The Painted Bird | Jerzy Konsinski | Chloe Piene |
| Tomb Sculpture | Erwin Panofsky | Chloe Piene |
| Men, Women and Chainsaws | Carol Clover | Chloe Piene |
| Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches Sabbath | Carlo Gizburg | Chloe Piene |
| The Incorruptible Flesh, Bodily Mutation and Mortification in Religion and Folklore | Piero Camporesi | Chloe Piene |
| Crowds and Power* | Elias Canetti | Chloe Piene |
| The Praise of Folly [1509 edition] | Desiderus Erasmus | Chloe Piene |
| A Treasury of Finnish Love Poetry | K. Börje Vähämäki | Chloe Piene |
| Without Sanctuary | James Allen | Chloe Piene |
| Blade Runner [Film] | Directed by Ridely Scott | Chloe Piene |
| Under The Skin [Film] | Directed by Johnathan Glazer | Chloe Piene |
| The Golem [Film] | Directed by Paul Wegener | Chloe Piene |
| Malpertuis | Jean Ray | Chloe Piene |
| Nina at The Village Gate [Music Album] | Nina Simone | Chloe Piene |
