BOOKS with David Maroto

This special edition of BOOKS marks the launch of Maroto’s new publication ‘The Artist’s Novel: The Novel as a Medium in the Visual Arts', recently released with Mousse Publishing. Here Maroto ventures the argument that it is possible to see the artist’s novel as a new medium in the visual arts. Maroto’s selected reading list includes references for the theory of a literary artistic practice, such as Roland Barthes, as well as a survey of recent novels by artists.

Roland Barthes. The Preparation of the Novel. Translated by Kate Briggs. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.

Gerry Bibby. The Drumhead. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2014.

Alex Cecchetti. Tamam Shud. Translated by Johanna Bishop. Berlin: Sternberg Press; Warsaw: Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, 2018.

Noël Carroll. A Philosophy of Mass Art. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.

George Dickie. Art and the Aesthetic: An Institutional Analysis. London: Cornell University Press, 1974.

Terry Eagleton. The Event of Literature. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012.

Maria Fusco. ‘How Hard It Is To Die’, Metropolis M 31, no. 2 (April–May 2010): 99–101.

Goldin+Senneby [K. D., pseud.]. Headless. Berlin: Sternberg Press; New York: Triple Canopy; Stockholm: Tensta Konsthall, 2015.

Wolfgang Iser. The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.

Grant H. Kester. The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context. London: Duke University Press, 2011.

Rosalind Krauss. “A Voyage on the North Sea”: Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2000.

David Maroto. The Artist’s Novel: The Novel as a Medium in the Visual Arts (Part 1: A New Medium + Part 2: The Fantasy of the Novel). Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2019.

David Maroto and Joanna Zielińska. Artist Novels. Berlin: Sternberg Press; Krakow: Cricoteka, 2015.

Mai-Thu Perret. The Crystal Frontier. Fragments published in Land of Crystal. Edited by Christoph Keller. Zurich: JRP|Ringier, 2008.

Benjamin Seror. Mime Radio. Amsterdam: Kunstverein Publishing; Berlin: Sternberg Press; Brussels: BAT éditions, 2015.

Cally Spooner. Collapsing in Parts. Birmingham: International Project Space; Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2013.