Professor Margaretta Lovel’s “A Material World”

Posted on May 10, 2019 by Nina Bayley

Read the new publication, edited by Professor Margaretta Lovel, Jay D. McEvoy Chair in the History of American Art, available for check out from the Art History / Classics Library and the Main Stacks.

(From the Penn State University Press Website.)

A Material World

Culture, Society, and the Life of Things in Early Anglo-America

Edited by George W. Boudreau, and Margaretta M. Lovell

“A vibrant compendium of essays that gives a master class in object analysis and shatters old categories of material and visual culture. Together, the authors powerfully demonstrate the global movement of commodities, the sometimes numinous power of memory objects, and the closely calibrated and negotiated human indications of wealth and power in early America. Historians of all stripes should pay attention to their clarion call to look deeply and think broadly.”

—Ann Smart Martin, author of Buying into the World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia

(From the Penn State University Press Website.)

April Brings New Books in Art History

Posted on April 25, 2019May 2, 2019 by Nina Bayley

You can find these and other new art history acquisitions on the New Books shelf in the Art History / Classics Library.

At Home Inka Essenhigh Pedro Correia De Araujo

Mesdag & Japan The Ideas, Identity and Art of Daniel Spoerri Caspar de Crayer

Shaping the American Interior Border Spaces Innovative Impressions

New Books in the Literature Collection

Posted on March 15, 2019March 11, 2019 by Literatures at the Library

Ah, the mid-semester blues. As the term drags on, it’s nice to have something new in your life to shake things up—like the new books in the library’s collection! The books we recently received have something for everyone—whether you’re looking for poetry, prose, or criticism.

*You Cannot Shoot a Poem*
Paula Closson Buck

*Why Can’t It Be Tenderness?*
Michelle Brittan Rosado

*Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom*
Jordan Tannahill

*Inside the World of Harry Potter: Critical Essays on the Books and Films*
Christopher Bell

*Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain*
Carissa M. Harris

*You Know You Want This*
Kristen Roupenian

Check out the rest of the new acquisitions!

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New Photo Books in the Art History / Classics Library

Posted on March 12, 2019March 12, 2019 by Nina Bayley

The Art History/Classics Library has received a gift of eight photography titles from donor Richard Sun. In addition to being the donor of a generous endowment to the Library Fine Arts Collection at Berkeley, Richard Sun annually selects and purchases specific titles for the Library. Among his recent selections for the library are several rare titles, limited editions, and Julia Borissova’s artist book “Let me fall again.” These books will be housed in the Art History / Classics Library.

The Island of the Color Blind by Sanne De Wilde

Redheaded Peckerwood by Christian Patterson

Waffenruhe by Michael Schmidt and Einar Schleef

March New Books in Art History

Posted on March 1, 2019 by Nina Bayley

You can find these and other new art history acquisitions on the New Books shelf in the Art History / Classics Library.

Gather our of Star-Dust Afrotopia Mama Casset

Lee Miller Se va mi Sombra, Pero yo me Quedo Nothing Personal

Berenice Abbott Shelley Niro Spirit Carvings of the Mah Meri

New Books in Literature

Posted on January 31, 2019February 6, 2019 by Literatures at the Library

Welcome back for a new semester! With new classes and a new year come new books at the library. The books we recently received have something for everyone—whether you’re looking for poetry, prose, or criticism.