From the library of Douglas Crimp

Dance
1. Cunningham, Merce. 2005. Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years. Edited by David Vaughan and Melissa Harris. 1st edition. New York, NY: Aperture.

2. Cunningham, Merce, and Jacqueline Lesschaeve. 2000. The Dancer and the Dance: Merce Cunningham in Conversation with Jacqueline Lesschaeve. Revised edition. New York: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd.

3. Denby, Edwin. 2007. Dance Writings. Edited by Robert Cornfield. Second Edition edition. Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida.

4. Johnston, Jill. 1971. Marmalade Me. E. P. Dutton.

5. Keersmaeker, Anne Teresa De, and Bojana Cvejic. 2012. A Choreographer’s Score: Fase, Rosas Danst Rosas, Elena's Aria, Bartók. Pck Slp Pa edition. Brussels; New Haven Conn.; London: Mercatorfonds.

6. Rainer, Yvonne. 1974. Yvonne Rainer: Work 1961 - 73. Halifax: Press of he Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

7. Rainer, Yvonne. 2013. Feelings Are Facts. Reprint edition. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press.

8. Reynolds, Nancy. 1977. Repertory in Review: 40 Years of the New York City Ballet. First Edition - First Printing edition. Dial Press.

9. Teicher, Hendel, ed. 2002. Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue, 1961-2001. Andover, Mass. : Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press.

10. Volkov, Solomon. 1985. Balanchine’s Tchaikovsky: Interviews with George Balanchine. New York: Simon & Schuster Inc.

Related to memoir
11. Buren, Daniel. Five Texts. John Weber Gallery, 1973.

12. Coleman, Elizabeth Ann. The Genius of Charles James. 1st Ed. edition. Brooklyn, N.Y. : New York, N.Y: Henry Holt & Co, 1984.

13. Crane, Peter. Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.

14. Hocquenghem, Guy, Michael Moon, and Jeffrey Weeks. Homosexual Desire. Translated by Daniella Dangoor. Durham: Duke University Press Books, 1993.

15. Hujar, Peter, and Bob Nickas. Night. New York; San Francisco: Matthew Marks Gallery/Fraenkel Gallery, 2005.

16. Lawrence, Tim. Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979. Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2004.

17. Lyon, Danny. The Destruction of Lower Manhattan. First edition. Macmillan, 1969.

18. Martin, Agnes. Writings. Edited by Dieter Schwarz. Ostfildern; New York, N.Y.; Distributed in the USA / Canada by D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 1998.

19. Owens, Craig, and Simon Watney. Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture. Edited by Scott Bryson, Barbara Kruger, Lynne Tillman, and Jane Weinstock. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

20. O’Hara, Frank. Art Chronicles, 1954-1966. Revised Edition edition. New York: George Braziller, 1990.

Queer Culture
21. Angell, Callie. Andy Warhol Screen Tests. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2006.

22. Bersani, Leo, and Ulysse Dutoit. Caravaggio’s Secrets. Copyright 1998 edition. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 1998.

23. Brecht, Stefan. Queer Theatre. New York: Methuen Drama, 1982.

24. Delany, Samuel. The Motion of Light in Water. Plume, 1989.

25. Delany, Samuel. Times Square Red, Times Square Blue. New York: NYU Press, 1999.

26. Leffingwell, Edward, Carole Kismaric and Marvin Heiferman. Jack Smith: Flaming Creature. His Amazing Life and Times. Institute For Contemporary Art, 1997.

27. Ludlam, Charles. The Complete Plays. New York: Harpercollins, 1989.

28. McDonald, Boyd. Cruising the Movies. 1St Edition edition. New York: Gay Pr of New York, 1985.

29. Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky.Epistemology of the Closet. Updated with a New Preface edition. Berkeley, Calif.; London: University of California Press, 2008.

30. Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, Michèle Aina Barale, and Jonathan Goldberg.Touching Feeling. Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2003.

31. Warhol, Andy, and Pat Hackett. POPism: The Warhol Sixties. 1 edition. Orlando: Mariner Books, 2006.

Used in teaching
32. Banham, Reyner. A Concrete Atlantis. Reprint edition. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1989.

33. Deutsche, Rosalyn. Evictions: Art and Public Space. Y First printing edition. Chicago, Ill. : Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 1996.

34. Flatley, Jonathan. Affective Mapping. 1 edition. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2008.

35. Fore, Devin. Realism after Modernism. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2012.

36. Gropius, Walter, Kenzo Tange, Ishimoto Yasuhiro. Katsura: Tradition and Creation in Japanese Architecture. 1st edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960.

37. McCoy, Esther, and Susan Morgan. Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy Reader. Los Angeles, CA: East of Borneo Books, 2012.

38. McWilliams, Carey. Southern California: An Island on the Land. 9 edition. Santa Barbara Calif.: Peregrine Smith, 1980.

39. Rebentisch, Juliane. Aesthetics of Installation Art. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2012.

40. Rose, Jacqueline. The Last Resistance. 1St Edition edition. London ; New York: Verso, 2007.

41. Rose, Jacqueline. Why War: Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Return to Melanie Klein. 1 edition. Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA: Wiley-Blackwell, 1993.

Artist books
42. Cooke, Lynne, Briony Fer, Zoe Leonard, and James Castle. James Castle: Show and Store. Madrid; New York, N.Y.: D.A.P./Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2011.

43. Davey, Moyra. Copperheads. Bywater Bros. Editions, 2010.

44. Garimorth, Julia, Michael Newman, Tacita Dean, Laurence Bosse, Jean-Luc Nancy, Laurence Bossé, and Rita Kersting. Tacita Dean: Seven Books. Slp edition. Paris: Steidl/ARC/Mus e d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2003.

45. Helfenstein, Josef, and Robert Gober. The Meat Wagon. Edited by Matthew Drutt. First Edition edition. Houston, Tex: The Menil Foundation, Inc., 1899.

46. Jonas, Joan, and Douglas (Ed.) Crimp. Joan Jonas: Scripts and Descriptions. First Edition edition. University Art Museum, University of California, 1983.

47. Lawler, Louise, and Johannes Meinhardt. An Arrangement of Pictures. Berlin; New York: Assouline, 2000.

48. Leonard, Zoe, Lytle Shaw, Lynne Cooke, Ann Reynolds, and Angela L. Miller. You See I Am Here after All. New York : New Haven Conn.: Dia Art Foundation, 2011.

Douglas Crimp was Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester, New York, and the author of On the Museum’s Ruins, 1993; Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics, 2002; and “Our Kind of Movie”: The Films of Andy Warhol, 2012. Crimp was the curator of the Pictures exhibition at Artists Space, New York, in 1977 and an editor of October magazine from 1977 to 1990. With Lynne Cooke, he organized the exhibition Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices 1970s to the Present for the Reina Sofía in Madrid in the summer of 2010. He completed a memoir of New York in the 1970s called Before Pictures (2016).

From the library of... was inaugurated by Jan Mot in 2014 with a selection of books from the library of Seth Siegelaub /Egress Foundation Amsterdam chosen by Marja Bloem. Since then other personalities from the art world have been invited to contribute to the series.