This bibliography lists publications in which creative practitioners have engaged with the concepts of ‘the archive’, ‘the library’ or ‘the book’ and their ethical and ideological implications. It also lists texts that explore the material culture of books or archives. You can find all these books in Glasgow School of Art Library – just search our catalogue.
Boehmer, Elleke (et. al.) (2017) The global histories of books: methods and practices. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Boltanski, Christian (1994) Lost. Glasgow: Tramway
Borges, Jorge Luis (2000) The library of Babel, in, Labyrinths: selected stories and other writings. London: Penguin
Cavazzoni, Ermanno (2010) The nocturnal library. An Rudha: Vagabond Voices
Cockburn, Ken (2007) For ‘visions’ read ‘meteors’: found poems, and an alphabet, from the John Murray Archive. Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland
Derrida, Jacques (1998) Archive fever: a Freudian impression. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Derrida, Jacques (2005) Paper machine. Stanford University Press
Dworkin, Craig (2010) The perverse library. York: Information as Material
Eco, Umberto (1981) De bibliotheca, in, Hofer, Candida (2005) Libraries. London: Thames & Hudson
Eliot, Simon & Rose, Jonathan (2009) A companion to the history of the book. Wiley-Blackwell
Enwezor, Okwui (2008) Archive fever: uses of the document in contemporary art. New York: International Center of Photography
Finkelstein, David & McCleery (2002) The book history reader. London: Routledge
Finlay, Alec (ed.) (2001) Libraries of thought & imagination: an anthology of books and bookshelves. Edinburgh: Pocket Books
Foucault, Michel (2002) Archaeology of knowledge. London: Routledge
Hofer, Candida (2005) Libraries. London: Thames & Hudson
Hunt, Ian (1998) Library relocations: library projects by David Bunn, Pavel Buchler, Mel Jackson and Pamela Golden. London: Book Works
Large, Kelly (2007) What is comprehension? Strategic Questions
Lyons, Martyn (2011) Books: a living history. London: Thames & Hudson
Manguel, Alberto (2011) A reader on reading. Yale University Press
Manguel, Alberto (2009) The library at night. New Haven: Yale University Press
Merewether, Charles (ed.) (2006) The archive. London: Whitechapel Gallery
Orlow, Uriel (2006) Deposits. Berlin: Green Box
Osthoff, Simone (2009) Performing the archive: the transformation of the archive in contemporary art from repository of documents to art medium. New York: Atropos Press
Perec, Georges (2011) Brief notes on the art and craft of sorting books, in, Thoughts of sorts. London: Notting Hill Editions
Peters, Teresa & West, Janice (eds.) (2011) Memoranda: Maisie Broadhead, Stephen Dixon, Laura Potter, Elaine Wilson. London: Luminous
Petroski, Henry (2000) The book on the bookshelf. New York: Vintage
Pyne, Lydia (2016) Bookshelf. London: Bloomsbury
Ridout, Lizzie (2007) Homeward bound, or, An exercise in collecting beginnings. London: British Library
Rosler, Martha (2008) Martha Rosler library. Liverpool: Liverpool Biennial
Spieker, Sven (2008) Big archive: art from bureaucracy. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press
Suarez, Michael F. & Woodhuysen, H. R. (eds.) (2013) The book: a global history. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Turkle, Sherry (2007) Evocative objects: things we think with. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Watson, Rowan, James, Elizabeth & Bryant, Julius (2015) Word and image: art, books and design from the National Art Library. London: V&A
