New additions to the library w/e 15 June 2012

The following books have been kindly donated by the National Portrait Gallery Research Library:

Jeffrey Smart : drawings and studies 1942-2001, commentary Jeffrey Smart ; introduction Edmund Capon ; essay by Germaine Greer, 2001.  Call no.: IAA SMA 2001

Robert Dowling : Tasmanian son of empire, John Jones, 2010.  Call no.: IAA DOW 2010

Roy Lichtenstein : pop remix--, Jaklyn Babington, 2012.  Call no.: IA LIC 2012

Matisse : drawing life, Queensland Art Gallery, 2011.  Call no.: IA MAT 2011

The following books have been kindly donated by Stewart MarcFarlane:

Artists and aspects of the Contemporary Art Society, Queensland Branch, Helen Fridemanis, 1991.  Call no.: AUS FRI 1991 (Art history room)

Joel Fine Art : Australian + international fine art, 26 March 2007, Melbourne.  Call no: GA JOE 2007 (Art history room)

Many thanks to our donors.

New additions to the library w/e 8 June 2012

Many thanks to the Community Arts Network of SA, who have donated several copies of:

Risking Art: Art for Survial: outlining the role of the Arts in services to marginalised young people, by Sally Marsden and Martin Thiele, 2000.  Call no: PP MAR 2000.

Getty Research Portal launched

The Getty Institute has launched a research portal, providing free access to over 20,000 art history texts that have been digitised and placed online.  More details about the portal are available here.

The portal itself can be accessed here: Getty Research Portal

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