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  • Martinique : snake charmer - André Breton ; with text and illustrations by André Masson ; translated by David W. Seaman ; introduction by Franklin Rosemont
    ISBN/ISSN: 0292717652
    In 1941, as the Vichy regime consolidated its control of France, André Breton left the country for the island of Martinique. A poet and the principal founder of surrealism, Breton did not stay long, but his visit inspired the essays and poems of this book. Martinique: Snake Charmer is one of surrealism's most important texts, and it has been called "the most beautiful of all books" about the island. (Martinique: Snake Charmer also includes nine evocative drawings by the surrealist André Masson, a companion of Breton's during his stay on the island.) This is the first English translation.
  • Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia - Jennifer Mundy (ed.)
    ISBN/ISSN: 1854377310
    Examines the work of Duchamp, Man Ray, and Picabia, three pioneering figures in the history of modernism. It explores the points of convergence and the parallels in their development throughout their careers. Central to this is their response to photography and film, and to the challenges posed to fine art by the development of mass production.
  • Magritte : attempting the impossible - Siegfried Gohr
    ISBN/ISSN: 1933045930
    The ongoing relevance of Belgian painter Rene Magritte may lie in the semiotic character of his work and its ability to create chasms between the world, its surfaces and the signs we use to occupy it. Magritte's paintings offer a space for the viewer to contemplate the emptiness of signs and to locate that emptiness in a world we recognize--indeed, the artist relies on the props of normalcy in order to upend, invert and collapse them into the terra incognita where life leaves off and art begins. "The mind loves the unknown," he avowed, "it loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown." Attempting the Impossible is a new definitive Magritte monograph.
  • Le Corbusier and the occult - J.K. Birksted
    ISBN/ISSN: 0262026481
    Traces the structure of Le Corbusier's brand of modernist spatial and architectural ideas based on startling new documents in hitherto undiscovered family and local archives. Le Corbusier and the Occult thus answers the conundrum set by Reyner Banham (Birksted's predecessor at the Bartlett School of Architecture) who, fifty years ago, wrote that Le Corbusier's book Towards a New Architecture "was to prove to be one of the most influential, widely read and least understood of all the architectural writings of the twentieth century.
  • The prints of Isoda Koryūsai : floating world culture and its consumers in eighteenth-century Japan - Allen Hockley
    ISBN/ISSN: 0295983019
    Refuting outmoded paradigms of connoisseurship and challenging the assumptions of conventional print scholarship, Hockley elevates this important figure from the status of a minor Edo-period artist. He argues that Koryusai excelled by the most significant measure--he was a highly successful creator of popular commodities.
 
 

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This guide is a pathfinder to the wide range of high quality Library and online resources available for Art History & Theory / Fine Arts. To browse the latest new titles, scroll down. To navigate the guide to find other resources, use the tabs above. To find journal articles, search in the recommended databases.  For help with assignment research or a subject query, contact Max Podstolski, Information Librarian: send email

 

Featured new title

  • Is art history global? - James Elkins (ed.)
    ISBN/ISSN: 0415977851
    Globalism is arguably the most pressing issue facing art criticism and art history. As the number of art history departments continues to grow, there is a danger art history will become a uniform practice around the world and may soon settle to a global standard. This book stages an international conversation among art historians and critics on the subject of the practice and responsibility of global thinking within the discipline. The topics are political, economic, philosophic, linguistic, and personal. Should Chinese art be discussed using Western methods such as psychoanalysis or deconstruction? Is it best to use words like "space" and "time" to describe non-Western art, or should historians try to employ the words used in different cultures? How is art history taught without books, slides, or artworks? What relevance does the Western narrative of art have for art history students in Argentina, South Africa, Indonesia, or Tibet? Is Art History Global? is essential reading on one of the thorniest questions facing the discipline today.
 

New art titles (last 3 weeks)

Scroll down to browse new art titles in the Macmillan Brown Library and e-journal issues. See also: Cinema Studies guide for recently-added films on DVD.

For more new titles for this subject (past 90 days), click here

 

Latest e-journal issues

Alerts were received in the past 2 weeks for these journals (in order of most to least recent).

For more art journals, see: Current journals list

 
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