New JSTOR offering

JSTOR has added a new service called Register and Read, allowing free online reading access to pre-1923 content.  You can register as an individual to access content from 75 journals including the Burlington Magazine, BOMB, Asian Survey and the Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin.

William Kentridge at Harvard

The first three lectures given by William Kentridge at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard in March and April are now available to view online - click on each lecture scroll down the resulting link to get to them.

One to follow?

The Walker Art Centre in Minneapolis has redeveloped its website to become a hub for the latest in contemporary art by following the format of an online arts magazine - check out some of its articles at: Walker Art Centre.

New additions to the library w/e 20 April 2012

You are here : personal geographies and other maps of the imagination / Katharine Harmon. Call no.: TH HAR 2004 - high demand collection

The map as art : contemporary artists explore cartography / Katharine Harmon. Call no.: TH HAR 2009 - high demand collection

Painting abstraction : new elements in abstract painting / Bob Nickas. Call no.: PA NIC 2009, high demand collection

Donated by Fiona Roberts

Painted fans of Japan : fifteen Noh-drama masterpieces / edited by Reiko Chiba. Call no.: DA CHI 1962

Donated by Terence Maloon

How buildings learn : what happens after they're built / Stewart Brand. Call no.: ARC BRA 1994

Modern times : the untold story of modernism in Australia / edited by Ann Stephen, Philip Goad and Andrew McNamara. Call no.: AUS STE 2008

The world atlas of exploration / by Eric Newby. Call no.: HI NEW 1975

Paul Cézanne : a life in art / Isabelle Cahn. Call no.: IA CEZ 1995

Benton, Pollock, and the politics of modernism : from regionalism to abstract expressionism / Erika Doss. Call no.: CL US 1991

Picasso / Timothy Hilton. Call no.: IA PIC 1975C

Picasso and the Spanish tradition / edited by Jonathan Brown. Call no.: IA PIC 1996

Child and caveman : elements of Picasso's creativity / Josep Palau i Fabré. Call no.: IA PIC 1977

The Impressionists: Masterpieces from the Musee d’Orsay / Ted Gott (ed). Call no.: PE IMP 2004B

Jacob Riis / Bonnie Yochelson. Call no.: IA RII 2001

Wyndham Lewis / Richard Humphreys. Call no.: IA LEW 2004

Photography in print : writings from 1816 to the present / edited by Vicki Goldberg. Call no.: PH GOL 1981

Psychoanalysis and the future of theory / Malcolm Bowie. Call no.: TH BOW 1994

Photography : a concise history / Ian Jeffrey. Call no.: PH JEF 1981

Writing culture : the poetics and politics of / edited by James Clifford and George E. Marcus. Call no.: TH CLI 1986

Many thanks to our donors.

New additions to the library w/e 13 April 2012

Thanks to the National Gallery of Australia Research Library for the following donations to the library:

The Age of Expressionism 1900-1929, exhibition catalogue from Rex Irwin, 2011 (Call no.: PE EXP 2011)
Lawrence Daws, exhibition catalogue from Philip Bacon, 2011 (Call no.: IAA DAW 2011)
Kensuke Todo: Time, distance, speed, exhibition catalogue from King Street Gallery, 2010 (Call no.: IAA TOD 2010)
Kate Turner Fairfax: Sentinal, exhibition catalogue from Liverpool Street Gallery, 2011 (Call no.: IAA FAI 2011)
John Hoyland (1934-2011), exhibition catalogue from Watters Gallery, 2011 (Call no.: IA HOY 2011)
Important Aboriginal Art, exhibition catalogue from Deutscher and Hackett, 2011 (Call no.: AUS DEU 2011)
Criss Canning: Still reflecting, exhibition catalogue from Philip Bacon, 2010 (Call no.: IAA CAN 2010)
Tony Berlant: works from 1962-1964, exhibition catalogue from La Louver, 2011 (Call no.: IA BER 2011)
Neil Frazer: fracture, exhibition catalogue from Martin Browne, 2011 (Call no.: IAA FRA 2011)
Important Australian Paintings, exhibition catalogue from Philip Bacon, 2011 (Call no.: AUS PBG 2011)
Linde Ivimey, exhibition catalogue from Martin Browne, 2009 (Call no.: IAA IVI 2009)

All of these will be placed in the staff room for a few weeks before being transfered into the library.

Many thanks to Terence Maloon who donated the following books to the library:

Picasso: die Sammlung Ludwig, 2001 (Call no.: IA PIC 2001, rare books cupboard)

Giacometti: sculputre, prints & drawings from the Maeght Foundation, 2006 (Call no.: IA GIA 2006)

Cezanne : the early years 1859-1872, 1988 (Call no.: IA CEZ 1988)

Jules Breton: la chanson de bles, 2002 (Call no.: IA BRE 2002, rare books cupboard)
La Pittura di Piero della Francesca, 1979 (Call no.: IA DEL 1979)
The world of Atget, 1964 (Call no.: IA ATG 1964)

Picasso: artist of the century, 1998 (Call no.: IA PIC 1998, rare books cupboard)
Plein-air painting in Europe, 1780-1850, 2004 (Call no.: CL EU 2004, rare books cupboard)
Cezanne, 1978 (Call no.: IA CEZ 1978)
Paintings, watercolors, sculputre, drawings: the Collection of Henry Pearlman, 1974 (Call no.: GA PEA 1974, rare books cupboard)

Renoir, his life, art, and letters, 1988 (Call no.: IA REN 1988)

Many thanks to our donors.

Google Art Project launches new version

Google Art Project has launched a new version, expanding the number of galleries and museums featured from 17 to 151, including 6 Australian galleries.  Alphabetical listings of collections, artists and artworks are now provided, making it easier to search.  For further information on how to use Google Art Project, visit their FAQs.

New additions to the library w/e 6 April 2012

Thanks to Terence Maloon who has donated the following books to the library:

Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy, 1979 (Call no.: HI MAR 1979)

Rustic cubism: Anne Dangar and the Art Colony at Moly-Sabata, 2004 (Call.: IAA DAN 2004)

The edge of vision: the rise of abstraction of photography, 2009 (Call no.: PH REX 2009, new books)
Picasso and his collection, 2008 (Call no.: IA PIC 2008)
Imitation of life: memory and mimicry in Canberra regional art, 2011 (Call. no: AUS CLA 2011, new books)
Charles Camoin: retrospective 1879-1965, 1997 (Call no.: IA CAM 1997, rare books)
Henri Matisse: fleurs feuillages et fruits, 2005 (Call no.: IA MAT 2005, rare books)

The Rhetoric of purity:  essentialist theory and the advent of abstract painting, 1994 (Call no.: PE ABS 1994, high demand collection)

Many thanks to Terence.