Life in an Art Library in Bloomsbury

The following three periodicals arrived today:

• Art in America, June-July 2008
• Crafts, July-August 2008
• Photograph, July-August 2008

You can find them all as usual on the ‘Current Magazines and Journals’ shelves next to the photocopiers.

Today, the following new journal issues arrived in the Library:

Modern painters, June 2008
Arts of Asia, May-June 2008
Art Review, July-August 2008
Artnews, June 2008: Special ecology issue

We also received the following sales catalogue:

20th century British art, Sotheby’s, London, 15 July.

The following two sales catalogues have just come in from Sotheby’s in Paris:

• Art impressioniste & moderne: le surréalisme, vente du soir, Sotheby’s, Paris, 2 July 2008
• Art impressioniste & moderne: le surréalisme, vente du jour, Sotheby’s, Paris, 3 July 2008

They are available as usual on the Sales Catalogues and New Books shelves.

Two new books came into the Library this week:

• Neo-impressionism and anarchism in fin-de-siécle France : painting, politics and landscape / Robyn Roslak, shelfmark FIA.FRA.C20.ROS
• Thomas Hope : Regency designer / David Watkin and Philip Hewat-Jaboor, editors; with contributions by Daniella Ben-Arie … [et al], shelfmark PAT.HOP.WAT

Both books will be on the shelves from today, and may be borrowed for the normal amount of time. 

We have been receiving a lot of new books recently, so keep checking the blog to find out what’s come in.

For MACA students in particular, these new catalogues may be of particular interest:

Contemporary art: morning auction, Sotheby’s, London, 2 July 2008 (10am).
Contemporary art: afternoon auction, Sotheby’s London, 2 July 2008 (2pm).

They can be found on the ‘Sales Catalogues and New Books’ shelves.