Theory links

Adorno, Theodor W., and Max Horkheimer

“The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception.” Dialectic of Enlightenment. Trans. John Cumming. New York: Continuum, 1989: 120-67. [1]

Barthes, Roland

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. Trans. Richard Howard. New York: Hill and Wang, 1981.

Mythologies. Ed. and trans. Annette-Lavers. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972. Available online at: [2].

“Rhetoric of the Image.” Image – Music – Text. Trans. Stephen Heath. New York: Hill and Wang, 1977: 32-51. Available online at: [3].

Baudrillard, Jean

“The Precession of Simulacra.” Simulacra and Simulations. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1994: 1-7. Available online at: [4].

Benjamin, Walter

“Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia.” Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings. Ed. and introd. Peter Demetz. New York: Schocken, 1978: 177-92. Available online at: [5].

“The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Illuminations. Ed. and Introd. Hannah Arendt. Trans. Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken, 1968: 217-51. Available online at: [6].

Berger, John

Ways of Seeing. New York: Viking, 1973. Available online at: [7]

Breton, André

Manifestoes of Surrealism. Trans. Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1969. Available online at: [8].

Breton, André, Diego Rivera and Leon Trotsky

“Towards a Free Revolutionary Art.” Art in Theory 1900-1990. Ed. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992: 526-29. Available online at: [http://www.generation-online.org/c/fcsurrealism1.htm}.

Brook, Peter

The Empty Space. New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1968. Available online at: [9].

Debord, Guy

Society of the Spectacle. Trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith. New York: Zone, 1994. Available online at: [10].

Freud, Sigmund

Beyond the Pleasure Principle. Ed. and trans. James Strachey. Intro. Gregory Zilboorg. Biographical Intro. Peter Gay. New York/London: Norton, 1961. Available online at: [11].

Kant, Immanuel

“Analytic of the Sublime.” Critique of Judgment. Trans. and Introd. Werner S. Pluhar. Foreword Mary J. Gregor. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987: 97-140. Available online at: [12].