The acclaimed facsimile of Fortunato Depero’s 1927 masterwork, the Bolted Book (Depero Futurista), published by Designers & Books, is now in its second printing and available on Kickstarter. Please note there is a special offer for ARLIS/UK and Ireland members during the Kickstarter campaign: Bolted Book Facsimile + Reader’s Guide + Custom-designed display stand (3-piece set) for $127. Your name will be included […]
Art and design librarians of the world, read on, you have nothing to lose but your innocence Facet Publishing have announced the release of the second edition of The Handbook of Art and Design Librarianship edited by Paul Glassman and Judy Dyki. Since the publication of the first edition of this handbook, the world of […]
FRANCIS TOWNE’S LAKE DISTRICT SKETCHBOOK A FACSIMILE RECONSTRUCTION With an Introduction and Notes by Timothy Wilcox The watercolours of Francis Towne are among the most admired in eighteenth-century British art. After his trip to Italy and the Alps, it was his subsequent tour, to the Lake District in 1786, which marked the true climax of […]
A Crash Course in Publishing for Librarians in three books Two books about publishing that all librarians must read are Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century and Books in the Digital Age: The Transformation of Academic and Higher Education Publishing in Britain and the United States. Both are by sociologist, […]
Facet Publishing announce the release of the second edition of The Special Collections Handbook. The Special Collections Handbook, 2nd edition | Jan 2017 | 336pp | paperback: 9781783301263 | £59.95 | hardback: 9781783301270 | £119.95 | ebook: 9781783301287 | £59.95 This new edition from Alison Cullingford, Special Collections Librarian at the University of Bradford, is […]
These two titles published by Park Books of Switzerland provide very different approaches to modern art and architecture. (The second piece is my attempt to emulate the book’s style and format.) Pisarik, Sonja and Gudrun Hausegger (Eds.) – Architecture in Austria in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Zürich: Park Books, 2016. £55.00.. 978-3-03860-011-4 Fantastically illustrated, […]
Does your institution run courses on FILM, ANIMATION and/or MEDIA? If so, why not purchase a copy of a short history of an English cinema which was amongst the first to show animated films made by the famous animator Arthur Melbourne-Cooper? Alpha to Odyssey: a short history of a St Albans’ cinema, by Penny Dade. […]