Sunday, January 25, 2009

ARTStor Training this Friday, 1/30/09, at Alkek Library

Hello and welcome to my Art & Design Inforama blog. Just wanted to let everyone know that there is an ARTStor training for staff, librarians, and faculty only this Friday from 10:00am to 4:00pm in the ITS training room, Alkek 119. It will be presented by an ARTStor representative.

Here is the lineup in case your interested in coming to a particular part of the training:
  • 10-11 ARTstor for Information Professionals (geared toward librarians and staff)
  • 11-12 Introduction to ARTstor
  • 1-2:30 Teaching with ARTstor
  • 3-4 Presenting with ARTstor
See you there!

New Art & Design Titles in Alkek Library

When perusing the list of new titles please be aware that the title links go to the library catalog record with location and availability information. The books cover images are links to reviews and more information about the title. Some titles do not have cover images so only a link appears in the list. These are newly received or processed titles ordered by the Art & Design Department faculty and library liaison, or the Communication Design MFA program faculty and library liaison. Enjoy!



Book Cover Active literature : Jan Tschichold and new typography / Christopher Burke.


Book CoverAll his jazz : the life & death of Bob Fosse / Martin Gottfried.


Book Cover American animated cartoons of the Vietnam era : a study of social commentary in films and / Christopher P. Lehman.


Book CoverBody of war / [videorecording] / Phil Donahue and Mobilus Media present a film by Phil Donahue and Ellen


Book Cover Book of hours / illuminations by Simon Marmion ; with an introduction and commentary by James Thorpe.


Book Cover Brancusi's Endless column ensemble : Târgu Jiu, Romania / essays by Sorana Georgescu-Gorjan ... [et al.] ; edited by Ernest Beck.


Book Cover California Mediterranean / photography by Melba Levick ; text by Marc Appleton.



Book Cover Camille Fauré : Limoges Art Deco enamels : the geometry of joy / Alberto Shayo.



Book Cover Candice Breitz : exposición múltiple = multiple exposure / [editor, Octavio Zaya ; essays, Jessica Morgan, Octavio Zaya].



Book Cover The changing face of childhood : British children's portrait and their influence in Europ / edited by Mirjam Neumeister ; Dulwich Picture Gallery, Städel Museum ; [English translation]



Book Cover A childhood memory by Piero della Francesca / Hubert Damisch ; translated by John Goodman.



Book Cover China : contemporary painting / Lorenzo Sassoli de Bianchi.


Book CoverCinco llaves del mundo secreto de Remedios Varo / Alberto Ruy Sánchez ... [et al., autores] ; Margarita de Orellana, edición or Five keys to the secret world of Remedios Varo / Alberto Ruy Sánchez ... [et al., authors] ; editor, Margarita de Orellana

Book Cover The Clark brothers collect : impressionist and early modern paintings / Michael Conforti ... [et al.] ; with additional contributions by Daniel Cohen-McFall


The collectible moment : catalogue of photographs in the Norton Simon Museum / Gloria Williams Sander, editor ; essays by Therese Mulligan, Gloria Williams Sander



Book Cover Colonial modernities : building, dwelling and architecture in British India and Ceylon / edited by Peter Scriver and Vikramaditya Prakash.



Book Cover Comic abstraction : image breaking, image making / Roxana Marcoci.



Dead history, live art? : spectacle, subjectivity and subversion in visual culture since / edited by Jonathan Harris.



Designing for interaction : creating smart applications and clever devices / Dan Saffer.



Book Cover Designing the seaside : architecture, society and nature / Fred Gray.


Duane Hanson : sculptures of the American dream / edited by Thomas Buchsteiner and Otto Letze.


Edward Hopper : light and dark / Gerry Souter.


The essential Neruda : selected poems / edited by Mark Eisner ; translated by Mark Eisner ... [et al.].



Book Cover Ghosts in the landscape : Vietnam revisited / photographs by Craig J. Barber, essay by Alison Devine Nordström



Great escapes around the world / edited by Angelika Taschen.



GRR30 : Urban recordings / Ingo Giezendanner.



Book Cover Harry and me, 1950-1960 : the familiy years / Niki de Saint Phalle.



Book Cover I'd rather be in the studio! : the artist's no-excuse guide to self-promotion / Alyson B. Stanfield.



Jeremy Blake : Winchester / Benjamin Weil, Mitchell Schwarzer, Jeremy Blake.



Book Cover José Guadalupe Posada : illustrator of chapbooks / written by Mercurio López Casillas ; [translator, Gregory Dechant].


Book Cover Julie Speidel / [foreword by Elizabeth A. Brown ; with an interview by Clare Henry].


Learn to draw : volume one / by John Lurie.



Book Cover A life on paper : the drawings and lithographs of John Thomas Biggers / Olive Jensen Theisen.



Book Cover Life's pleasures : the Ashcan artists' brush with leisure, 1895-1925 / James W. Tottis ... [et al.] with contributions from Michael E. Crane and Kirsten Olds.



Das literarische Werk. / Herausgegben von Friedhelm Lach.



Book Cover Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall : an artist's country estate / Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen ; with contributions by Elizabeth Hutchinson ... [et al.].



Book Cover Making art history : a changing discipline and its institutions / edited by Elizabeth C. Mansfield.



Book Cover The manual of strategic planning for museums / Gail Dexter Lord And Kate Markert.



Mary Kelly / Margaret Iversen, Douglas Crimp, Homi K. Bhabha.




Book Cover Masters of the comic book universe revealed! / Arie Kaplan.


Book Cover Michelangelo and the human dignity : an anthropological reading of the Sistine frescoes / Kleetus K. Varghese.



Book Cover Modern art : a very short introduction / David Cottington.



Book Cover Nancy Spero / Jon Bird, Jo Anna Isaak and Sylvère Lotringer.



Book Cover Not built in a day : exploring the architecture of Rome / George H. Sullivan.



Book CoverOnly in America : one hundred paintings in American museums unmatched in European collect / Pierre Rosenberg.




Book Cover Optic nerve : perceptual art of the 1960s / Joe Houston ; introduction by Dave Hickey.



Book Cover Painted enamels : an illustrated survey 1500-1920 / Erika Speel.



Book Cover Paolo Veronese : piety and display in an age of religious reform / Richard Cocke.



Book Cover Piero della Francesca / preface by Oreste del Buono ; [translation, Anne Ellis Ruzzante].



Book Cover Please listen I have something to tell you about what is / by Chris Johanson ; introduction, Aaron Rose ; texts, Sean Kennerly, Jack Hanley.



Book Cover Pop art and vernacular cultures / edited by Kobena Mercer.



Book Cover Portraits of a people : picturing African Americans in the nineteenth century / Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw ; contributions by Emily K. Shubert.



Book Cover Pressed in time : American prints, 1905-1950 / Jessica Todd Smith and Kevin M. Murphy.




Book Cover Real-time rendering / Tomas Akenine-Möller, Eric Haines, Naty Hoffman.


Book CoverSelling Shaker : the commodification of Shaker design in the twentieth century / Stephen Bowe and Peter Richmond.



Surreal people : surrealism and collaboration / Alexander Klar.



Tabaimo / [édition, Sophie Perceval ; traduction français/japonais, Nanae Yuyama



Book Cover The triumph of Eros : art and seduction in 18th-century France.



Visite(e) : Werke aus der Sammlung Zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland / Herausgeber: Der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien




Book Cover What is web design? / Nico Macdonald.



Women in Impressionism : from mythical feminine to modern woman / edited by Sidsel Maria Søndergaard ; with contributions by Susan Strauber ... [et al.].




Book Cover Wonderland / Rochelle Steiner ; with contributions by Giuliana Bruno ... [et al.].



Book Cover Years of friendship, 1944-1956 : the correspondence of Lyonel Feininger and Mark Tobey / edited by Achim Moeller.