Selections from the library’s collection of loanable artwork (the Graphic Arts Loan Collection) are now on display in the Art History/Classics Library (308 Doe).
Art History Library
Fall Library Orientations for Art History and Art Practice Students
You are welcome to attend one of the upcoming library orientation sessions for the Art History/Classics Library (308 Doe). The sessions are capped at 20 students, so be sure to reserve your spot via the rsvp form. Sessions are offered on the following dates/times:
Thursday, September 11th, 12-1
Monday, September 15th, 4-5
Tuesday, September 16th, 5-6
Please rsvp at: http://ucblib.link/orientationAHC
New Faculty Publication from Shiben Banerji
Check out Lineages of the Global City, the new publication by new faculty member, Shiben Banerji. It is available to view online through UC Library Search.
From University of Texas Press:
This is a beautifully researched and realized work of scholarship, which unveils a remarkable archive of urban images that connect occultism, modernism, globality, and architecture. It will be of great value to historians, architects, planners, and scholars of cultural modernity due to its powerful argument for the cosmological underpinnings of modern urban thought.
~Arjun Appadurai, New York University, author of The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition
In the contemporary era of climate crisis, growing concerns about the exploitation of nature, resurgent nationalism, and what is looking to be a new global political and economic order that will impact not just nations but also cities, this provocative book will spark considerable debate about what kinds of urban habitats we want to build and whether historical models relegated to the dustbin of twentieth-century architectural history can indeed offer new food for thought in these turbulent times.
~Diane E. Davis, Harvard Graduate School of Design; CIFAR Fellow and Project Co-Director, Humanity’s Urban Future
You can read the abstract here.
Art for the Asking: Check-Out Art From The Graphic Arts Loan Collection At The Morrison Library August 25 to 28
The Graphic Arts Loan Collection (GALC) at the Morrison Library has been checking out art to UC Berkeley students, staff, and faculty since 1958 and it is back again this year!
The purpose of the GALC since its inception has been to put art in the hands of UC Berkeley students (and the best way to appreciate art is to live with it!), so on August 25 and 26, from noon to 4 p.m., and August 27 and 28, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., UC Berkeley students can come to the Morrison Library (101 Doe Library) and check-out up to two pieces of art from the GALC’s collection to take home and hang on their walls for the academic year. The prints will be available to students on a first come, first served basis. We will also have our newest prints available, including art by Dave Eggers and Annie Owens.
If you would like to see what we have before you come to the Morrison Library, all the prints are available to browse online at the Graphic Arts Loan Collection website. Not everything in the collection will be available at the Morrison Library on these days, but much of the collection will. Please note that the Graphic Arts Loan Collection will not be available to staff and faculty members during this time, but only available to UC Berkeley students. Starting September 2nd students can reserve prints from the collection through the GALC website, and on September 15th, faculty and staff can begin reserving prints. Any questions about the GALC can be directed to graphicarts-library@berkeley.edu.
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New Faculty Publication by Atreyee Gupta
Check out the new publication from Art History faculty Atreyee Gupta.
Postwar Revisited: a Global Art History is available to read online through UC Library Search.
“Rethinking the narrow Euro-American basis of ‘postwar’ as an art historical epoch, Postwar Revisited makes a major contribution. It reflects and will further influence the broader spirit of revisionism toward more global understandings of the twentieth century that have been effectively redefining the field of art history over the past two decades.” – Saloni Mathur, author of A Fragile Inheritance: Radical Stakes in Contemporary Indian Art
New Rare Photography Book Acquisitions from Richard Sun
Have a look at this selection of rare and out of print photography books. This is only a part of a recent, generous donation from Richard Sun. These books are located in the Art History/Classics Library within the Doe Memorial Library. Click on the titles to view their catalog records in UC Library Search.
Looking for Alice Lost Coast My Dakota
The Epilogue Stranger Fruit Silent Book
In Search of Frankenstein Encampment Wyoming Dormant Season
Photobook Pop-Up Exhibit, Friday, April 11
In association with the Reva and David Logan Photobook Symposium at the School of Journalism, the Bancroft Library is hosting a Photobook Pop-Up Exhibit, featuring selections from the Reva and David Logan Photobook Collection (The Bancroft), and photobook gifts from donor Richard Sun (Art History/Classics Library).
Artists featured:
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Claude Cahun, Robert Frank, Dorthea Lange, Miyako Ishiuchi, Graciela Iturbide, Dayanita Singh, Alfred Stieglitz, Francesca Woodman and many more.
Photobook Pop-Up Exhibit
Friday, April 11th 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
The Bancroft Library
UC Berkeley
Free and open to all
Hosted by Christine Hult-Lewis, Pictorial Curator, and Lynn Cunningham, Art Librarian
New York Times Best Art Books of 2024
Check out some of the New York Times “Best Art Books of 2024.”
A Book about Ray At the Louvre Atlas of Never Built Architecture Emergency Money
Exit Interview Iconophages If the Snake Louis Carlos Bernal
Mandalas Painting Men Truckload of Art Hello We Were …
Art as Resistance
Check out these, and other books that explore and represent the use of art as social and political resistance, currently on display in the Art History/Classics Library.
Elizabeth Catlett How to Design a Revolution LaToya Ruby Frazier
Propagandopolis Resist! The Art of Resistance Showing Resistance
New Publication from Art History Faculty Todd Olson
Check out Professor Todd Olson’s newest publication, Ribera’s Repetitions: Paper and Canvas in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Naples
“Todd Olson carefully considers the diverse contexts for Ribera’s artistic practice, such as empire-building, materiality, and myth, and thus assesses the complexity of Ribera’s creativity through the lenses of repetition, rotation, and experimentation. This novel, interdisciplinary study reexamines the originality of Ribera’s praxis as engaged in a visual culture shaped by science, history, and belief in early modern Naples.”—Lisandra Estevez, editor of Collecting Early Modern Art (1400–1800) in the U.S. South
“Much more than a mere study on Jusepe de Ribera, Olson’s book is an essay on materiality, technique, and their meanings; on imperial circulation and its discontents; and on knowledge, memory, and loss. This piece of cultural history, never losing touch with the artworks and their visual particularities, is beautifully written and at times moving, reminding us of the potentialities of art history as a literary and philosophical genre.”—Itay Sapir, author of Ténèbres sans leçons: Esthétique et épistémologie de la peinture ténébriste romaine, 1595-1610
-From Penn State University Press