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Color Theory

	On Color	Amy Sillman
	Interaction of Color	Josef Albers
	Black and White	Katy Siegel
	Cabinet Essays on Color
	Chromophobia	David Batchelor
	Pink!: Community, Contestation and the Colour of Breast Cancer	Charlene Elliott
	Goethe's Theory of Colours	Goethe
	Matisse's Black Light	John Gage
	Red and black and color in general	Donald Judd
	Yellow Perils	David Scott Kastan

	In Plato's Cave	Susan Sontag
	Why Look at Animals	John Berger

	The Indigo Revolt of Bengal	Subhas Bhattacharya
	The Forever Now	Laura Hauptman
	Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's Imaginary Portraits	Zadie Smith
	Ninth Street Women	Mary Gabriel
	Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy	Dave Hickey
	Art on My Mind	Bell Hooks
	Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston	Musa Mayer
	The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art, and the Spirit World	Jennifer Higgie
	I Want to Paint Every Color in the World	John Yau
	What Do Reliquaries Do for Relics?	Cynthia Hahn
	The "Iron Man": Imagining Muslims and Vanishing Objects in the Shrine of Sainte Foy at Conques	Kris N. Racaniello

	Faux Pas	Amy Sillman
	Notes from the Woodshed	Jack Whitten
	Daybook, The Journal of an Artist	Anne Truitt
	The Creative Independent: Interviews with Artists and Creatives

	The Creative Act: A Way of Being	Rick Rubin
	The Courage to Create	Rollo May
	Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear	Elizabeth Gilbert
	The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life	Twyla Tharp
	Artist's Guide to Making a Living Doing What You Love	Jackie Battenfield
	Letters to a Young Artist
	Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind/Baby Problem	Julie Phillips

	Notes on Seeing	Siri Hustvedt
	Woolf's Darkness: Embracing the Inexplicable	Rebecca Solnit

	Bluets	Maggie Nelson
	My Private Property	Mary Ruefle
	The Colour out of Space	H.P. Lovecraft
	The Country of the Blind	H.G. Wells
	My Name is Red (excerpt)	Orhan Pamuk
	The Whiteness of the Whale, Moby Dick excerpt	Herman Melville
	Everything is Waiting for You	David Whyte