New additions to the library w/e 25 May 2012

The following books have been added to the High Demand collection:

Artists' scales of fees & wages, National Association for the Visual Arts, 2009. Call no.: PP NAV 2009 

Money for visual artists, National Association for the Visual Arts, 2010. Call no.: PP NAV 2010 (replaces previous edition)

Ideal Work, Richard Grayson & Steven Wigg, 1998. Call no.: PP GRA 1998

New additions to the library w/e 18 May 2012

Terence Maloon has kindly donated the following books:

The forbidden best-sellers of pre-revolutionary France, Robert Darnton, 1997. Call no.: HI DAR 1997

Sigmar Polke : Editionen, Ulli Seegers, 2009. Call no.: IA POL 2009 (rare books)

De Stijl continued : the journal Structure (1958-1964) : an artists' debate, Jonneke Jobse, 2005. Call no.: PE DES 2005

The culture of spontaneity : improvisation and the arts in postwar America, Daniel Belgrad, 1998. Call no.: CL US 1998

Gerhard Richter : The daily practice of painting : writings and interviews 1962-1993, edited by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, 1995. Call no.: IA RIC 1995

Transformations in late eighteenth century art, Robert Rosenblum, 1969. Call no.: HI ROS 1969

Renaissance Florence, Gene Brucker, 1969. Call no.: HI BRU 1969

Italian Renaissance studies, E.F. Jacob (ed), 1960. Call no.: HI JAC 1960

To destroy painting, Louis Marin, 1995. Call no.: PA MAR 1995

Ruthless hedonism : the American reception of Matisse, John O'Brian, 1999. Call no.: IA MAT 1999

The unknown shore : a view of contemporary art, Dore Ashton, 1964. Call no.: PE MOD 1964

Mannerism and anti-mannerism in Italian painting, Walter Friedlaender, 1990. Call no.: CL IT 1990

Reframing abstract expressionism : subjectivity and painting in the 1940s, Michael Leja, 1993. Call no.: PE ABS 1993

Freud, Leonardo da Vinci, and the vulture's tail : a refreshing look at Leonardo's sexuality, Wayne Andersen, 2001. Call no.: IA LEO 2001

Many thanks to Terence for his donation.

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New additions to the library w/e 11 May 2012

The following books were donated by Terence Maloon :

The spirit of Britain : a narrative history of the arts, Roy Strong,  2000. Call no.: CL UK 2000

A history of Britain : at the edge of the world? : 3000 BC-AD 1603,  Simon Schama, 2000. Call no.: HI SCH 2000

The architecture of happiness, Alain de Botton, 2006. Call no.: ARC DEB 2006

The power of images  : studies in the history and theory of response, David Freedberg, 1989. Call no.: TH FRE 1989

The embarrassment of riches : an interpretation of Dutch culture in the golden age, Simon Schama, 1987. Call no.: HI SCH 1987

Virginia Woolf : a biography, Quentin Bell, 1972. Call no.: HI WOO 1972

Mannerism, John Shearman, 1967. Call no.: PE MAN 1967

The age of Catherine de Medici : and essays in Elizabethan history, J.E. Neale, 1963. Call no.: HI NEA 1963

Alone of all her sex : the myth and cult of the Virgin Mary, Marina Warner, 1985. Call no.: HI WAR 1985

Shakespeare : the biography, Peter Ackroyd, 2006. Call no.: HI SHA 2006

The geometry of love: space, time, mystery and meaning in an ordinary church, Margaret Visser, 2000. Call no.: TH VIS 2000

Brunelleschi's dome : the story of the great cathedral in Florence, Ross King, 2005. Call no.: IA BRU 2005

Making and effacing art : modern American art in a culture of museums, Philip Fisher, 1997. Call no.: TH FIS 1997

Petrarch, Harold Bloom, 1989. Call no.: HI PET 1989 (Art History room)

The body in parts : fantasies of corporeality in early modern Europe, edited by David Hillman and Carla Mazzio, 1997. Call no.: HI HIL 1997 (Art history room)

Theories of contemporary art, edited by Richard Hertz, 1985. Call no.: TH HER 1985

My dear Stieglitz : letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred Stieglitz, 1912-1915, edited by James Timothy Voorhies, 2002.  Call no.: CL US 2002

The world of Claude Monet, Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 2008. Call no.: IA MON 2008 (Rare books)

Looking at lovemaking : constructions of sexuality in Roman art, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250, John R. Clarke, 1998. Call no.: PE CL 1998

Image of the body: aspects of the nude, Michael Gill, 1989. Call no.: TH GIL 1989

The following books were donated by Geoff Gibbons:

The birth and rebirth of pictorial space, John White, 1972. Call no.: PA WHI 1972

The New Cambridge modern history. [Vol.]13., Companion volume, edited by Peter Burke, 1979. Call no.: HI BUR 1979

New additions w/e 4 May 2012

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

Marcel Duchamp : artist of the century, edited by Rudolf Kuenzli and Francis M. Naumann – Call no.: IA DUC 1989

The goddess of love : the birth, triumph, death and return of Aphrodite,  Geoffrey Grigson – Call no.: HI GRI 1977 (art history room)

Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp, by Pierre Cabanne – Call no.: IA DUC 1971B

The Flemish School, circa 1600-circa 1900, by Gregory Martin – Call no. CL FL 1970

The Florentine portrait, Jean Alazard – Call no.: CL IT 1968

Aaron Siskind, James Rhem – Call no.: IA SIS 2003

Gustave Le Gray, Sylvie Aubenas – Call no.: IA LEG 2003

Jan Senbergs : drawings, Elizabeth Cross – Call no.: IAA SEN 2006

Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter : letters and reminiscences 1902-1914, Annegret Hoberg – Call no.: CL DE 2001

Picasso, les "347", collection Jean Planque, Nicole Minder – Call no.: IA PIC 2001 (Rare books)