AR6b (Annotated bibliography)

Annotated Bibliography:

The art of participation 1950 to now by Rudolf Friedling.
This book really introduced me to the ideas and philosophy of collaborative artwork. It had very insightful essays chapter 1 was particularly relevant to my research project. It also had essays by John Cage and Joseph Bueys which I found inspiring as an artist.

Song of the Earth by Mel Gooding and William Furlong
This book l;ooks at the work of land artists and has essays relating to their projects and practices.


Anthony Gormley (DVD recording)
I found this useful when designing my day in the woods event day as he also organised group participation to hand produce 'gorms'- small clay figures produced in 'Cloud' artwork.

This is Civilisation : save our souls (dvd recording0- looking at the work of famous art critic Ruskin.
This introduced me to the ideals of Ruskin and I particularly like his aesthetic belief that art can save the soul.

Installation and experimental printmaking/ by Alexia Tala.
This was a practical guide to printmaking processes which I had to research for my project, a good guide to printmaking.

Ego: the strange and wonderful world of self-portraits (dvd recording) directed by Sebastian Barfield.
I changed tack half way through my research project and decided to have a more people orientated project and so wanted to research the traditional role of self in the production of artwork.

Imagine art is child's play (dvd recording), directed by Mathew Springford.
-This dvd interviews artist such as Grayson Perry and Tracey Emin and their relationship to playfulness in the creative process when producing their own artwork, it also relates this to a project done in collaboration with agroup of school children in art workshops where they were asked to make a room recreation in ashoe box. These were exhibited alongside the artworks of Turner prize winning artists on the same theme.

Lucy + Jorge Orta pattern book: an introduction to collaborative practices/ edited by Paula Orrell.
This book had patterns of group costumes which were made to link a caterpillar train of people together which were made to different themes and the group performed wearing the costumes in differnt locations around the globe. An interesting look on what it means to collaborate creatively.


The Social Production of Art by Janet Woolf
This is a series of essays exploring all the different angles and meanings and effects of producing artwork in society, what it means to be an artist and the role of art within society and society's desires and reaction towards art old and new.