Primary Sources
| Date | Author | Title |
| 1900 | Sigmund Freud | The Interpretation of Dreams |
| 1917 | Lucien Levy Bruhl | How Natives Think |
| 1925 | Adolf Hitler | Mien Kampf |
| 1927 | Friedrich Nietzsche | The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music |
| Georges Bataille | The Solar Anus | |
| 1930 | Walter Benjamin | The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction |
| Georges Bataille | Sacrificial Mutilation and the Severed Ear of Vincent Van Gogh | |
| The Mouth | ||
| 1935 | Federico Garcia Lorca | Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias |
| Martin Heidegger | The Origin of the Work of Art | |
| Melanie Klein | A Contribution to the Psychogenesis of Manic-Depressive States | |
| 1940 | Clement Greenberg | Avant Garde and Kitsch |
| Towards a New Laocoon | ||
| Harold Rosenberg | The Fall of Paris | |
| Walter Benjamin | The Arcades Project | |
| 1945 | Maurice Merleau-Ponty | Phenomenology of Perception |
| 1946 | Jean-Paul Sartre | Existentialism Is a Humanism |
| 1947 | Clement Greenberg | The Present Prospects of American Painting and Sculpture |
| 1948 | Clement Greenberg | The Decline of Cubism |
| 1949 | Arthur Schlesinger | The Vital Center |
| Life Magazine | Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the U.S.? | |
| 1950 | Jean Genet | Un Chant D'Amour |
| 1951 | Robert Motherwell | The Dada Painters and Poets |
| 1952 | Harold Rosenberg | The American Action Painters |
| 1953 | Albert Camus | The Rebel |
| 1957 | Roland Barthes | Mythologies |
| 1958 | Allan Kaprow | The Legacy of Jackson Pollock |
| 1961 | Clement Greenberg | Modernist Painting |
| Susan Sontag | Against Interpretation | |
| 1962 | Claude Levi-Strauss | The Savage Mind |
| 1964 | Antonin Artaud | The Theatere and its Double |
| Susan Sontag | Notes on Camp | |
| 1965 | Bob Dylan | Subterranean Homesick Blues |
| Donald Judd | Specific Objects | |
| 1966 | Susan Sontag | Against Interpretation |
| 1966 - 67 | Robert Morris | Notes on Sculpture |
| 1967 | Roland Barthes | The Death of the Author |
| Michael Fried | Art and Objecthood | |
| Marshall McLuhan | The Medium is the Massage (Message) | |
| Guy Debord | The Society of the Spectacle | |
| Clement Greenberg | The Recentness of Sculpture | |
| Roland Barthes | Elements of Semiology | |
| Michael Foucault | Of Other Spaces | |
| 1968 | Robert Morris | Anti Form |
| Robert Smithson | The Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects | |
| Roland Barthes | The Death of the Author | |
| 1969 | Joseph Kosuth | Art After Philosophy |
| Michael Foucault | What is an Author? | |
| 1971 | Linda Nochlin | Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists |
| John Berger | Was of Seeing | |
| 1973 | Laura Mulvey | Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema |
| Lucy Lippard | Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object | |
| 1974 | Juliet Mitchell | Psychoanalyses and Feminism |
| Peter Burger | The Theory of the Avant Garde | |
| 1975 | Leo Steinberg | Other Criteria |
| 1976 | Umberto Eco | A Theory of Semiotics |
| 1978 | Jacques Derrida | The Truth in Painting |
| 1977 | Charles Jencks | The Language of Post-Modern Architecture |
| Susan Sontag | Illness as Metaphor | |
| Jean-Francois Lyotard | Trans/ Formers | |
| 1979 | Jean-Francois Lyotard | The Postmodern Condition |
| Mary Kelly | Post Partum Document | |
| Douglas Crimp | Pictures | |
| Germaine Greer | The Obstacle Race | |
| 1980 | Douglas Crimp | The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism |
| Umberto Eco | The Name of the Rose | |
| Julia Kristeva | Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection | |
| Carig Owens | The Allegorical Impulse | |
| 1981 | Benjamin Buchloh | Figures of Authority, Ciphers of Regression |
| Douglas Crimp | The End of Painting | |
| On The Museum's Ruins | ||
| 1984 | Frederic Jameson | Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism |
| 1990 | Anna Chave | Minimalism and the Rhetoric of Power |
| 1992 | Arthur Danto | Modern, Postmodern and Contemporary |
| 1994 | Richard Serra | Writings/ Interviews, pg. 3 - 4 |
| 2002 | Daniel A. Siedell | Contemporary Art Criticism and the Legacy of Clement Greenberg |
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