Ellen Mueller's Picks

I have taught art and design in higher ed for over 10 years, and crafted several unique courses on wide-ranging topics (check out past syllabi). I showcase some of that research here.

Social Practice VIEW LIST (36 BOOKS)

Some Social Practice

Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts, 2nd Edition

Education for Socially Engaged Art: A Materials and Techniques Handbook

What We Want Is Free: Critical Exchanges in Recent Art

Social Objects: Essays, Interviews, Projects and Interventions on Socially Engaged Craft

Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011

The Participator in Contemporary Art: Art and Social Relationships

More Art in the Public Eye

Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship

Participation

Participation Is Risky: Approaches to Joint Creative Processes

Arrested Welcome: Hospitality in Contemporary Art

The Practice of Public Art

Art as Social Action: An Introduction to the Principles and Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art

Social Justice Art: A Framework for Activist Art Pedagogy

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Walking as Artistic Practice VIEW LIST (52 BOOKS)

Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967-2017

Walkscapes: walking as an aesthetic practice

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

A Field Guide to Ilanding: Scores for Researching Urban Ecologies

Walking Art Practice: Reflections on Socially Engaged Paths

Walking Networks: The Development of an Artistic Medium

Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers

Walking Methodologies in a More-Than-Human World: Walkinglab

Walking Sculpture 1967-2015

Walking Bodies: Papers, Provocations, Actions from Walking's New Movements, the Conference

The Society of the Spectacle

Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London

The Invisible Flâneuse?: Gender, Public Space and Visual Culture in Nineteenth Century Paris

Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World

Wanderers: A History of Women Walking

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Zines and Independent Publishing VIEW LIST (11 BOOKS)

The Magazine

Adjusted Margin: Xerography, Art, and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century

Whatcha Mean, What's a Zine?: The Art of Making Zines and Mini Comics

The Riot Grrrl Collection

Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism

Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution

Thinking with type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students (Revised, Expanded)

Artists' Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art

DIY: The Rise of Lo-Fi Culture

Indie Publishing: How to Design and Produce Your Own Book

Professional Practices for Artists & Designers VIEW LIST (40 BOOKS)

How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care

The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love

The Aiga Guide to Careers in Graphic and Communication Design

The Practical Handbook for the Emerging Artist

Thrive!: The Creative's Guidebook to Professional Tenacity

Art/Work - Revised & Updated: Everything You Need to Know (and Do) as You Pursue Your Art Career

The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist: Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul (Seventh Edition)

The Artist's Guide to Grant Writing: How to Find Funds and Write Foolproof Proposals for the Visual, Literary, and Performing Artist

Don't Get a Job... Make a Job: How to Make It as a Creative Gradute (in the Fields of Design, Fashion, Architecture, Advertising and More)

A Graphic Design Student's Guide to Freelance: Practice Makes Perfect

101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions

Legal Guide for the Visual Artist (Revised)

Artrepreneur: A Field Guide for Creative Professionals

Becoming a Successful Illustrator

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Visual Criticism & Theory VIEW LIST (48 BOOKS)

Methods and Theories of Art History

Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings (Second Edition, Revised and Expanded by Kristine Stiles)

Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction

Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction

Ways of Seeing

Representation

About Looking

Art in Theory 1900 - 2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas

Comic Books and American Cultural History: An Anthology

Readings for Diversity and Social Justice

Privilege, Power, and Difference

Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction

Postmodernism

Participation

Graphic Design Discourse: Evolving Theories, Ideologies, and Processes of Visual Communication (Academic Reader with 75 Seminal Texts Across Dis

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Video Art VIEW LIST (17 BOOKS)

A History of Video Art

Video Art Theory: A Comparative Approach

Installation and the Moving Image

Video Art (Revised)

Vision Anew: The Lens and Screen Arts

Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art

The Cinematic

Memorials of Identity: New Media from the Rubell Family Collection: New Media from the Rubell Family Collection

Resolutions

Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016

Between the Black Box and the White Cube: Expanded Cinema and Postwar Art

Screen/Space: The Projected Image in Contemporary Art

Anonymous Sculptures: Video and Form in Contemporary Art

Video Art Historicized: Traditions and Negotiations

Resolutions 3: Global Networks of Video

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Place VIEW LIST (41 BOOKS)

Place: An Introduction

Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience

The People, Place, and Space Reader

Belonging: A Culture of Place

The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society

One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity

The Nature of Home: Taking Root in a Place

Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity

Place and Placelessness

Place and Placelessness Revisited

Art & Place: Site-Specific Art of the Americas

Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967-2017

Humanist Geography: An Individual's Search for Meaning

Senses of Place

Nobody's Property: Art, Land, Space, 2000-2010

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Performance Art VIEW LIST (30 BOOKS)

Performance Now: Live Art for the Twenty-First Century

Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present

Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics

Elements and Principles of 4D Art and Design

Ethno-Techno: Writings on Performance, Activism and Pedagogy

Site-Specific Performance

Black Performance Theory

Local Acts: Community-Based Performance in the United States

Performance and Media: Taxonomies for a Changing Field

Performance Studies: An Introduction

The Performance Studies Reader

The Art of Participation

Performing Mixed Reality

The Ends of Performance

Race and Performance After Repetition

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Sound Art VIEW LIST (26 BOOKS)

Sound Art Revisited

Sound Art: Sound as a Medium of Art

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art

Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art

Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Western Art

See This Sound: Audiovisuology: A Reader

The Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening

The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World (Original)

Remapping Sound Studies

Silence: Lectures and Writings

The Sound Studies Reader

Keywords in Sound

Sound Objects

Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts

Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies

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Humor in Art & Design VIEW LIST (15 BOOKS)

Humour: A Very Short Introduction

Concrete Comedy: An Alternative History of Twentieth-Century Comedy

No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity

On Humour

A Theory of Parody

Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting

Comedy

Carrying on "irregardless": Humour in Contemporary Northwest Coast Art

Joke-Performance in Africa: Mode, Media and Meaning

Permission to Laugh: Making a Difference in the Developing World

The Comedy Studies Reader

Irony and Sarcasm

The Graphic Design Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters

From Diversion to Subversion: Games, Play, and Twentieth-Century Art

What Comes After Farce