Research Guides: The Aesthetics of Learning: Books Available at the ERC

Accessing Books at the ERC

Please note that these books are available at the Mishkin Gallery for visitors to peruse in person. Most have been loaned to the Mishkin Gallery by the Newman Library for the duration of the exhibition. In order to ensure equal access through the Exhibition Resource Center (ERC), these books cannot be borrowed or removed from the gallery space at any time or for any reason. We greatly appreciate your respecting and abiding by these access guidelines.

Books about Featured Artists and Artworks

“Henning Christiansen: Freedom is Around the Corner.” Special issue of Blank Forms, vol. 1, no. 3, entire issue, 2018.
Juan Downey: Radiant Nature. Exhibition organized by Robert Crouch and Ciara Ennis. Pitzer College Art Galleries and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 2017
Stachelhaus, Heiner. Joseph Beuys. Translated by David Britt, New York, Abbeville Press, 1991.
Tucker, Anne, and Catherine Wagner. American Classroom: The Photographs of Catherine Wagner. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1988.

Books about Knowledge and Power (e.g. Critical Pedagogy)

Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. 30^th Anniversary Edition, New York, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Harney, Stephen, and Fred Moten. The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study. Minor Compositions, 2013.
hooks, bell. Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom. New York, Routledge, 2010.
---. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York, Routledge, 1994.
Lewis, Tyson E. The Aesthetics of Education: Theatre, Curiosity, and the Politics in the work of Jacques Rancière and Paulo Freire. New York, Continuum, 2012.
Rancière, Jacques. The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation. Translated by Kristin Ross. Stanford UP, 1991.

Books about History of the City University of New York (CUNY)

Shoiock Roff, Sandra, et al. From the Free Academy to CUNY: illustrating public higher education in New York City, 1847-1997. Fordham UP, 2000.

Featured Book

Teaching to Transgress by Bell Hooks
Call Number: LC 196.H66 1994
ISBN: 9780415908085
Publication Date: 1994-09-12
"After reading Teaching to Transgress I am once again struck by bell hooks's never-ending, unquiet intellectual energy, an energy that makes her radical and loving." -- Paulo Freire
In Teaching to Transgress,bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal.