In 2011, asked to provide a Top Ten List of references that every art undergraduate should know, I offered these (not in order of preference):
01. Flash, Grandmaster - Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel
02. www.nettime.org
04. Douglas, Mary - Towards an Anthropology of Consumption
06. Cervantes, Miguel de - Don Quixote
07. Braudel, Fernand - Civilization and Capital vol I. II & III
08. Lasseter, John - Toy Story 1 & 2
09. Benjamin, Walter - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
10. Frieze
11. Bourdieu, Pierre - Outline of a Theory of Practice
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