What to Read After Relational aesthetics
Readers who loved Relational aesthetics by Nicolas Bourriaud keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Relational aesthetics is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Relational aesthetics
The Politics of Aesthetics
After modern art, 1945-2000
The return of the real
After the End of Art
Art as Experience
The emancipated spectator
Art since 1900
Art since 1940
Theories and documents of contemporary art
Performance
Installation Art
But Is It Art?
Chromophobia (FOCI)
Performance Art
Techniques of the observer
The Conspiracy of Art
Art on the Edge and Over
The Visual Culture Reader
On ugliness
Theories of Modern Art
Différence et répétition
Aesthetics and Politics (Radical Thinkers)
The dialectics of seeing
Species of spaces and other pieces