Items added to the Art collections in May include:

Marclay, Christian. Record player: a film by Luc Peter. Intermezzo Films, 2000. ISSUE DESK ART AV MAR
Lane, Cathy. Playing with words: the spoken word in artistic practice. RGAP, 2008. ART M 8 LAN 
Richter, Gerhard. Text: writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007. Thames & Hudson, 2009. ART MG 19 RIC
Tribute to Gustav Metzger. Intermedium, 2008. ISSUE DESK CD MET
Murphy, Robert. The British cinema book. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. ART QM 10 MUR

For the full list visit LibraryThing.

Items added to the Art collections in April include:

Shanken, Edward A. Art and electronic media. Phaidon, 2009. ART TA SHA
Tilbury, John. Cornelius Cardew: a life unfinished. Copula, 2008. ART PX 20 CAR
Stok, Frank van der. Questioning history: imagining the past in contemporary art. NAi Publishers, 2008. ART M 8 STO
Beckman, Karen. Still moving: between cinema and photography. Duke University Press, 2008. ART QB 5 BEL
Folman, Ari. Waltz with Bashir. ISSUE DESK DVD 1733

For the full list visit LibraryThing.

New items added to the Art collections during March include:

Un coup de dés: writing turned image: an alphabet of pensive language. Generali Foundation, 2008. ART M 8 COU
Fried, Michael. Why photography matters as art as never before. Yale University Press, 2008. ART R 5 FRI
Brown, Paul. White heat, cold logic: British computer art, 1960-1980. MIT Press, 2008. ART TA BRO
Holmes, Tom. Electronic and experimental music: technology, music and culture. Routledge, 2008. ART PX 20 HOL
Tomkins, Calvin. Lives of the artists. Henry Holt & Co., 2008. ART M 8 TOM
Bourriaud, Nicolas. The radicant. Lukas & Sternberg, 2009. ART BG BOU

For the full list visit LibraryThing.

New books added to library stock during February include:

Baker, Kenneth. The lightning field. Yale University Press, 2008. ART MU 29 DEM
Chapman, Jake. The marriage of reason & squalor. Fuel, 2008. ART ME 29 CHA
Hough, Jessica. Revisiting the glass house: contemporary art and modern architecture. Yale University Press, 2008. ART M 8 REV
Dion, Mark. Concerning hunting. Hatje Cantz, 2008. ART MU 29 DIO
Role models: feminine identity in contemporary American photography. The National Museum of Women in the Arts, 2008. ART R 5 ROL

The full list can be found at LibraryThing.

The Library has recently obtained access to a number of ebooks in the arts and humanities. These include:

Frank Hoffman: Encyclopaedia of Recorded Sound 
Jo Anna Isaak: Feminism and Contemporary Art 
John Lechte: Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers 
James Elkins: On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art
Reesa Greenberg: Thinking About Exhibitions  
Susan Hiller: The Myth of Primitivism 
Ian Jarvie: Philosophy of the Film
Robert Stam: New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics

All books can be accessed offsite. For the full list of titles in all subjects go to Metalib and scroll down to the link for Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Don’t forget that you can now keep up to date with new art books in UCL library as they are added to stock via LibraryThing.

New books in the library during December and January include:

Obrist, Hans Ulrich. Formulas for now. Thames & Hudson, 2008. ART M 8 OBR
Ross, Alex. The rest is noise: listening to the twentieth century. Fourth Estate, 2008. ART PX 20 ROS
Frieling, Rudolf. The art of participation: 1950 to now. Thames & Hudson, 2008. ART M 8 FRI
Dell, Simon. On location: siting Robert Smithson and his contemporaries. ART M 25 DEL
Spieker, Sven. The big archive: art from bureaucracy. MIT, 2008. ART M 8 SPI

The full list is available at LibraryThing or you can download a pdf here: Library acquisitions December January 2009.

New books added to library stock in November include: 

California video: artists and histories. Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2008. ART MU 8 CAL
Burgin, Victor. Components of a practice. Skira, 2008. ART R 19 BUR
Celant, Germano. Vertigo: a century of multimedia art, from Futurism to the web. Skira, 2008. ART M 8 CEL
Poli, Francesco. Postmodern art: from the postwar to today. Collins, 2008. ART M 8 POL
Thornton, Sarah. Seven days in the art world. Granta, 2008. ART A 4.95 THO
Leighton, Tanya. Art and the moving image: a critical reader. Tate / Afterall, 2008. ART QB 5 LEI

Find the full list here: Library acquisitions November 2008

New items added to library stock in October include:

Joseph, Branden W. Beyond the dream syndicate: Tony Conrad and the arts after Cage. Zone Books, 2008. ART MU 19 CON
Koons, Jeff. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2008. ART MU 19 KOO
Brody, Richard. Everything is cinema: the working life of Jean-Luc Godard. Faber, 2008. ART QN GOD
Rothko, Mark. Rothko’s rooms. ISSUE DESK ART AV ROT
Acconci, Vito. The American gift / Running tape / Under-history lessons. Electronic Arts Intermix. ISSUE DESK CD ACC

Click here for the full list: Library acquisitions October 2008

New books and DVDs added to library stock in August and September include:

Morris, Robert. Have I reasons: work and writings 1993-2007. Duke University Press, 2008. ART MU 29 MOR
Hogan, Erin. Spiral Jetta: a road trip through the land art of the American west. Chicago University Press, 2008. ART MU 25 HOG
Falsetto, Mario. Dialogues with independent filmmakers. Praeger, 2008.
ART QH 1 FAL
González, Jennifer A. Subject to display: reframing race in contemporary installation art. MIT, 2008. ART M 8 GON
Cage, John. Variations VII. E.A.T. / Artpix. ISSUE DESK ART AV CAG

Click here for the full list: Library Acquisitions Summer 2008