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Art Monthly journal, issues available in print in the Library and online.

Berger, J. (1972) Ways of Seeing. London: Penguin.

Williams, G. (2014) How to Write About Contemporary Art. London: Thames and Hudson.

Wilson, M. (2013) How to Read Contemporary Art. London: Thames and Hudson.

Recommended:
Black Dog Publishing (2012) Contemporary art in the United Kingdom. London: Black Dog.

Fisher, E., & Fortnum, R. (2013) On not knowing: How artists think. London: Black Dog.

Heartney, E. (2013) Art & Today. London: Phaidon.

Hylton, R. (2019) ‘Decolonising the Curriculum’, Art Monthly, no.426 (May 2019).

Kennedy, D. (2016) Decolonization: a very short introduction. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Madoff, S. H. (2009) Art School: Propositions for the 21st century. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Weintraub, L. (2003) Making contemporary art: How today’s artists think and work. London:
Thames and Hudson.

Various authors, Documents of Contemporary Art series. London: Whitechapel.

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Further:
Black, A., & Burisch, N. (2021) The new politics of the handmade: craft, art and design. London:

Bloomsbury Visual Arts.

Buskirk, M. (2012) Creative enterprise: Contemporary art between museum and marketplace. London:

Continuum.

Elderton, L., & Morrill, R. (2021) Vitamin D3 : today's best in contemporary drawing. London: Phaidon.

Hicks, A. (2014) The global art compass: New directions in 21st-century art. London: Thames and

Hudson.

Holzwarth, H. W. (2008) Art now, vol. 3. London: Taschen.

Johns, C. (2004) Becoming a reflective practitioner. Oxford: Blackwell.

Kholeif, O. (2016) Electronic superhighway: London: Whitechapel.

Moszynska, A. (2013) Sculpture now. London: Thames & Hudson.

Pooke, G. (2011) Contemporary British art: An introduction. London: Routledge.

Schwabsky, B. (2011) Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting. Oxford: Phaidon.

Winter, R. (1999) Professional experience and the investigative imagination: The art of reflective writing.

London: Routledge.

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