Directory of world cinema: American independent

By L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes, on 30 April 2010

The American Independent volume of the Directory of World Cinema is available to download for free for a limited time from http://www.worldcinemadirectory.org.

Library acquisitions April 2010

By L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes, on 30 April 2010

New books added to the art collectons during April include:

Krauss, Rosalind. Perpetual inventory. MIT Press, 2010. ART BK KRA

See this sound: audiovisuology compendium: an interdisciplinary survey of audiovisual culture. Koenig, 2009. ART M 8 DAN

Morley, Simon. The sublime. Whitechapel / MIT press, 2010. ART BA MOR

Adlington, Robert. Sound commitments: avant-garde music and the sixties. Oxford University Press, 2009. ART PX 20 ADL

Moure, Gloria. Marcel Duchamp: works, writings and interviews. Ediciones Polígrafa, 2009. ART MF 19 DUC

For the full list visit LibraryThing.

BBC Archives

By L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes, on 30 March 2010

The BBC Archive site now features a series of themed collections of radio and TV programmes, documents and photographs. As well as art & culture, the collections cover subjects such as science, lifestyle, politics, and the environment. The most recently added collection, on the theme of Second Wave Feminism, features topics such as the Coffee Bar Ban on Women (Nationwide, 1971), Equality at Cambridge University (Tonight, 1963), and The Lesser Half (Women at Work, 1974).

There are also collections relating to Henry Moore at the BBC and Francis Bacon at the BBC.

Library acquisitions February / March 2010

By L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes, on 30 March 2010

New items added to the Art collections in February and March include:

Obrist, Hans Ulrich. Experiment marathon. Koenig, 2009. ART M 8 OBR
Bijsterveld, Karin. Sound souvenirs: audio technologies, memory and cultural practices. Amsterdam University Press, 2009. ART PQ 20 BIJ
Bellini, Andrea. Everything you always wanted to know about gallerists but were afraid to ask. JRP/Ringier, 2009. ART A 4.9 BEL
Satz, Aura. Articulate objects: voice, sculpture and performance. Peter Lang, 2009. ART M 20 SAT
Rancière, Jacques: The emancipated spectator. Verso, 2009. ART BA RAN

For the full list visit LibraryThing.

LACMA Reading Room

By L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes, on 5 February 2010

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has recently announced the launch of its Reading Room, an online space devoted to the presentation of the museum’s publications. In an effort to make books available that are otherwise difficult to access, the initial group focuses on out-of-print offerings and features ten digitised catalogues highlighting the development of the Los Angeles art scene during the 1960s and 70s including Six painters and the object by Lawrence Alloway, Art in Los Angeles: seventeen artists in the sixties by Maurice Tuchman, and exhibition catalogues on Edward Kienholz and Robert Irwin.

Library acquisitions January 2010

By L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes, on 1 February 2010

Items added to the Art collections during January include:

Dan Graham. Rock/music writings. Primary Information, 2009. ART MU 19 GRA
Harun Farocki. Against what? Against whom? Koenig Books, 2009. ART QN FAR
Serpentine Gallery manifesto marathon. Koenig Books, 2009. ART M 8 SER
Robert Ryman. Critical texts since 1967. Ridinghouse, 2009. ART MU 19 RYM
Malik, Amna. Sarah Lucas: Au naturel. Afterall Books, 2009. ART ME 19 LUC

To see the full list visit LibraryThing

Women of the avant-garde

By L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes, on 22 December 2009

Women of the avant-garde is a part of the Avant-garde all the time series of podcasts which are made up of materials from Ubuweb presented by Kenneth Goldsmith. It includes audio clips from Gertrude Stein, Yoko Ono, Kathy Acker, Laurie Anderson and many more.

Avant-garde all the time is part of the Poetry Foundation website.

Free magazines available from Google Books

By L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes, on 22 December 2009

There are a number of popular American magazines now available in full via Google Books. Subjects covered range from science and sport to music, lifestyle and current affairs. Also included is a complete archive of Life magazine.

Library Acquisitions November / December 2009

By L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes, on 22 December 2009

Items added to the Art collections during November and December include:

Art and text. Black Dog Publishing, 2009. ART M 8 ART
Cashell, Kieran. Aftershock : the ethics of contemporary transgressive art. I.B. Tauris, 2009. ART M 8 CAS
Rexer, Lyle. The edge of vision: the rise of abstraction in photography. Aperture, 2009. ART R 5 REX
Losowsky, Andrew. We make magazines: inside the independents. Editions Mike Koedinger, 2009. ART PA 50 LOS
Ran, Faye. A history of installation art and the development of new art forms. Peter Lang, 2009. ART M 20 RAN

For the full list visit LibraryThing

Small Publishers Fair 2009

By L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes, on 11 November 2009

The 2009 Small Publishers Fair is taking place this Friday and Saturday, 13th & 14th November, 11am – 7pm, at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square. The Fair will include stalls for small, independent publishers, artists and writers such as Coracle, Moschatel and Weproductions.

An exhibition entitled Written, drawn, and stapled has also been curated especially for the Fair and highlights collaborative publishing work of writers, poets and artists working in New York in the 1960s and 70s. On Saturday 14th there will also be a programme of readings and events taking place.