Reading through the catalogue to the British Art Show 7 (2011), I was struck by how many different books, films, plays, songs, TV shows etc are cited by the text, either as the artists’ inspiration, or just dropped in there by the authors. Here is a complete list of them. It’s a bewildering and interesting list. I might read/watch them all, so that then I will have read/watched enough.
London Fields, Martin Amis
In the days of the comet, HG Wells
An Arundel tomb, Philip Larkin
Larkin at sixty, ed. Anthony Thwaite
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
O lucky man! [film] Lindsay Anderson et al
Orthodoxy, GK Chesterton
Lanark, Alasdair Gray
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
History of the English Kings, William of Malmesbury
Cometography, vol. 1, G Kronk
The flowers of Tarbles: or, terror in literature, Jean Paulhan
Bartleby the Scrivener, Herman Melville
Paradise lost, Milton
Star wars [film]
Incredible hulk
Monitor [TV series]
The island of Dr. Moreau, HG Wells
Island, Aldous Huxley
Writings of Kant
Korrektur, Thomas Bernhard
The unnamable, Samuel Beckett
Genesis
The German ideology, Marx/Engels
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Time Machine, HG Wells
The Simpsons [TV series]
Guignol’s band, Louis Ferdinand Celine
Films of Russ Meyer
Films of Hollis Frampton
Composer Cornelius Cardew
Composer Xenos ‘Fray Bentos’ Jones
Unnamed art book misattributing Elizabeth Foster to Gainsborough
A life in pictures, Alasdair Gray
Rising damp [sitcom]
Krypton factor [TV show]
We are the champions [TV show]
Happy days [play] Samuel Beckett
Glass architecture, Paul Scheerbart
Poet Irina Ratushinskaya
Writings of Wittgenstein
Films of Tarkovsky
‘Autobiography’ of Jack Sheppard, possibly ghost written by Daniel Defoe
Writings of Bertold Brecht
Bonnie and Clyde [film]
Boyz n the hood [film]
Lemon [film], Hollis Frampton
Life of Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabbelais
Monty Python’s Flying Circus [TV show]
Salò[film], Pier Paolo Pasolini
La Jetée [film], Chris Marker
Krapp’s last tape [play], Samuel Beckett
Teorema [film], Pier Paolo Pasolini
Let’s go dancing [song], Sparque, remixed by Larry Levan and François K
DJ Francis Grasso
Musician Arthur Russell
Cycles [film], Guy Sherwin
Memory bucket [film], Jeremy Deller
Films of Dziga Vertov
Films of Chris Marker
Films of Black Audio Film Collective
Films of Haroun Farocki
The Alien [unrealised film], Satyajit Ray
Bouvard and Pecuchet, Gustav Faubert
The nose, Nikolai Gogol
200 motels [film], Frank Zappa
Locus solus, Raymond Roussel
Motorman, David Ohle
Eastenders [TV show]
Marat/Sade [play], Peter Weiss
Armchair theatre [TV show]
Play for today [TV show]
Music of The Cure, Desmond Dekker, A-ha and Joy Division
Films of John Carpenter
Description of a whirlpool by Edgar Allen Poe
The third generation [film], Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
Music of Morrissey
Poetry of Philip Larkin
Writing of Alan Bennett
Newsweek
International Herald Tribune
John Cage
Thought of John Ruskin
Thought of Jacques Rancière
Sea Oak, George Saunders
René Descartes
La vida es sueño [play], Pedro Calderón de la Barca
The analytical language of John Wilkins, Jorge Luis Borges
Days [poem], Philip Larkin
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