Tag: New Acquisitions
Books from the Richard Sun Photography Donation
Come see books recently on display from the Richard Sun Photography Book Donation. These items are now shelved in the Art History/ Classics Library. Click the titles to see their records in UC Library Search.
Another Country Abendlied Balika Mela
Roxane II The Sign of Life Manifest
Women Photographers Book Selections from the Richard Sun Donation
Here is a selection of books of the works of women photographers recently donated by Richard Sun. Additional books from the donation are now on display in the Art History/Classics library. Click the links to see their records in UC Library Search.
Stranger: Olivia Arthur Mourka: Martha Swope Hot Days in Camp Hansen: Mao Ishikawa
Liz Johnson Artur Moving Away: Ishiuchi Miyako Myself Mona Ahmed: Dayanita Singh
Memorandum: Ana Paula Estrada Every Night Temo Ser La Dinner: Sofia Ayarzagoitia Picture Book: Hannah Hock
Celebrating Women’s History Month in Art History
Check out these online resources available through UC Library Search. Click on the titles to view them in the catalog, or visit the Art History/ Classics Library to view new publications of women artists on display.
A time of one’s own : histories of feminism in contemporary art
Counterpractice : psychoanalysis, politics and the art of French feminism
Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing
The Art of Being Dangerous Exploring Women and Danger through Creative Expression
Women artists in the early modern courts of Europe (c. 1450-1700)
Women art workers and the Arts and Crafts movement
Griot Potters of the Folona : the History of an African Ceramic Tradition
Feminist visual activism and the body
Picturing political power : images in the women’s suffrage movement
Celebrating Black History Month- New E-Resources in Art History
Check out these materials, all available on-line. Click on the titles to access them through UC Library Search.
Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing
The Color Pynk: Black Femme Art for Survival
Death’s futurity : the visual life of Black power
Feelin : creative practice, pleasure, and Black feminist thought
Gullah spirit the art of Jonathan Green
Negotiating Race and Rights in the Museum
Speaking Out of Turn: Lorraine O’Grady and the Art of Language
The Black experience in design : identity, expression & reflection
Through the Lens: The Pandemic and Black Lives Matter
New Alumni Publications
Check out these new publications written and edited by Alumni from the Art History Department:
Mont Allen (PhD 2014), The Death of Myth on Roman Sarcophagi: Allegory and Visual Narrative in the Late Empire
Patricia Fortini Brown (PhD 1983), The Venetian Bride: Bloodlines and Blood Feuds in Venice and its Empire
Sarah Louise Cowan (PhD 2019), Howardena Pindell: Reclaiming Abstraction (Release Date 11/2022)
Todd Cronan (PhD 2005), Red Aesthetics: Rodchenko, Brecht, Eisenstein
Nina Dubin (PhD 2006), MELTDOWN! Picturing the World’s First Bubble Economy
Robin Greeley (PhD 1996), A Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latina/o Art
Anthony Gruden (PhD 2008), Like a Little Dog: Andy Warhol’s Queer Ecologies
Aaron M. Hyman (PhD 2017), Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America
Stephanie Pearson (PhD 2015), The Triumph and Trade of Egyptian Objects in Rome: Collecting Art in the Ancient Mediterranean
Orna Tsultem (PhD 2009), A Monastery on the Move: Art and Politics in Later Buddhist Mongolia
Karl Whittington (PhD 2010), New Horizons in Trecento Italian Art
Barbara Wisch (PhD 1985), A Companion to Early Modern Rome, 1492-1692
Marnin Young (PhD 2005), Felix Feneon: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde
September’s New Books in Art History
Check out these new books in the subject of Art History. Click the links below for their records in UC Library Search.
Bill Cunningham Was Here Captioning the Archives Carrie Mae Weems
Photography The Selfie, Temporality, and Contemporary Photography The Lives of Images
New Books from the Photography Endowed Funds for the study of History of Art and Art Practice
The following selections are recent acquisitions purchased with the Photography Endowed Fund for the study of History of Art and Art Practice. The endowment was originally established in 2007 by our generous donor Richard Sun. Last year Richard bestowed us with a generous gift once again, by adding another $25,000 to his original endowment, ensuring our photography collection will continue to be enriched well into the future. Below is just a sampling of the many titles acquired with the Photography Endowed Fund over the past year.
Polaroid Now Helen Levitt Ursula: Hannah Whitaker
Behind the Camera Imaging Culture Hiroshi Sugimoto: Accelerated Buddha
Alive and Destroyed A Bridge from Darkness to Light The Year that Changed our World
July’s New Books in Art History
Check out these new books and e-books in the subject of Art History. Click the links below for their records in UC Library Search.
Celestial Tapestry The Responsive Environment Воры, вандалы и идиоты
The Story of Scottish Art Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism Along the Indian Highway
Ethics of Contemporary Art Disordering the Establishment Arte, Literatura, y Feminismos
New Art History Books for Women’s History Month
March is Women’s History Month. Check out these new Art History books on the Art History/Classics Library’s New Book Shelf, featuring women artists. Click the titles below to see them in UC Library Search.
Kara Walker Ladies First! Peintres Femmes
Femmy Otten Close-Up Sonya Clark
Black History Month and February’s New Art Books
Check out the work of these Black and African American artists in these new catalogs, presently on view on the Art History/ Classics Library new book shelf. Click the links below the images to see them in UC Library Search.
Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw Dirty South Beyond the Black Atlantic
Claudette Johnson: I Came to Dance Betye Saar Bob Thompson: This House is Mine