Annotated Bibliography
- Pelzer, Birgit. Dan Graham. London: Phaidon Press, 2001.
This book includes survey, interviews for Dan Graham and his own writings, focusing on the artist’s socially-based architectural projects. The combination of intelligent analysis, personal insight, useful facts and plentiful pictures is a superb format invaluable for researchers.
- Graham, Dan. Two-Way Mirror Power: Selected Writings by Dan Graham on His Art. Alberro, Alexander ed. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1999.
This book contains Graham’s essays discussing his work in performance, film, photography and his early projects. It also collects fourteen mostly shorter pieces discussing Graham’s signature Pavilion Sculptures, begun in the late 1970s. This work convenes several of Graham’s interests—in transparency, social formations of leisure, “minimalist” design, and experiential occupancy
- Swenson, Kirsten. “Be My Mirror.” Art in America. May 2009. http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/magazine/dan-graham-be-my-mirror-kirsten-swenson/
The article discusses the varied 30-year career of American Conceptual artist Dan Graham. Topics discussed include his founding of the short-lived John Daniels Gallery in New York City in 1964, his work as an art and music critic, his 1967 photo essay “Homes for America,” his 1984 film “Rock My Religion,” and assorted other works of art.
- Simpson, Bennett. Dan Graham: Beyond (Exhibition Catalogues: Whitney Museum of American Art). Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2009.
This volume offers the first comprehensive survey of Graham’s work. The book’s design evokes magazine format and style, after Graham’s important conceptual work from the 1960s in that medium. It features eight new essays, two new interviews with the artist, a section of reprints of Graham’s own writing, and an animated narrative. It examines Graham’s entire body of work, which includes designs for magazine pages, drawing, photographs, film and video, and architectural models and pavilions.
- Wallis, Brian, Rock My Religion: Writings and Projects 1965-1990 by Dan Graham, Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1994
This book collects eighteen of Graham’s essays from all periods of his work, beginning with his essays on minimalist artists such as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, continuing with his writings on punk rock and popular culture, and concluding with his more recent considerations of architecture, urban space, and power.
- Graham, Dan, Dan Graham: Catalogue Raisonné. Düsseldorf: Richter Verlag, 2001.
This catalogue raisonne provides a comprehensive, chronological documentation of 165 works and writings from 1965 until the present day, and includes articles, written sketches, Graham’s reports about his artistic activities, art critical essays, film stills, architectural models, pavilions and video rooms, as well as an extensive bibliography.
- Graham, Dan, Valle, Pietro, Zevi, Adachiara. Dan Graham: Half Square Half Crazy. Charta, 2005.
This book presents exhaustive documentation of the Como pavilion together with a selection of recent works by Graham and two interviews with the artist, discussing how Graham designed a pavilion called “Half Square Half Crazy,” which straddles the line between contemplative object and meeting point, a place of both reflection and exchange.
- Graham, Dan, Slade, Kathy. Nuggets: New and Old Writing on Art, Architecture, and Culture (Positions). Zurich: JRP-Ringier, 2004.
This book brings together an assortment of texts both old and new, with writings on art, artists’ books, architecture and various artists Graham admires, such as Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Claes Oldenburg, Jeff Wall and John Chamberlain. Also included is a selection of interviews conducted since the 1990s, most notably on his large-scale installations and pavilions incorporating mirrors.
- Graham, Dan, Moure, Gloria. Dan Graham: Works, and Collected Writings. Poligrafa, 2009.
This book looks at Graham’s key works and incorporates a collection of his seminal writings, like his large-scale installations incorporating mirrors–in which viewers become lost in a maze of reflections that they must navigate and interpret as they simultaneously see themselves and other viewers reflected–Graham has long examined the psychological relationship between people and architecture.
- Graham, Dan, Hatton, Brian, Feaver, Dorothy. Dan Graham: Not Yet Realised, Pavilion Drawings. London: Lisson Gallery, 2012.
This book displays the artist’s sketches and plans for as-yet-unfinished works including paper scraps from sketchbooks alongside annotated architectural drawings and more resolved imagery.