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Architecture
18th Havana International Book Fair - February 14-21, 2009
In February, I was privileged to be part of a group of North American librarians who visited Cuba on the occasion of the 18th Havana International Book Fair, known in Spanish as the Feria Internacional del Libro de La Habana. This trip was generously supported by Cowles Library and the Drake University Center for the Humanities.
The Book Fair attracts a huge number of visitors every year from all segments of Cuban society and all parts of the island.
Crowd at the 2009 Havana International Book Fair - Havana, Cuba from M Djenno on Vimeo.
Cubans seem to seek and acquire reading material at any and every opportunity!
Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
"The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879 as both a museum and school, first stood on the southwest corner of State and Monroe Streets. It opened on its present site at Michigan Avenue and Adams Street in 1893. Built on rubble from the 1871 Chicago fire, the museum housed a collection of plaster casts and had a visionary purpose: to acquire and exhibit art of all kinds and to conduct programs of education. The collection now encompasses more than 5,000 years of human expression from cultures around the world, and the school's graduate program is continually ranked as one of the best in the country. Within the next decade, a new complex will continue this process of growth."
Artcyclopedia
Browse or search to find information on over 8,000 renowned artists.
ARTstor
A collection of digital images of art, architecture and design from a number of books (notably art history survey texts), museums, archives, and slide collections.
The ARTstor Collection currently contains approximately 500,000 images. The Collection documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and includes architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture. (from pub blurb)
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Des Moines Art Center
"Recognized by international art critics as a world-class museum in the heart of the Midwest, the Des Moines Art Center has amassed an important collection with a major emphasis on contemporary art. The collection’s overriding principle is a representation of artists of the 19th and 20th century, each through a seminal work. This accounts for an impressive collection that ranges from Edward Hopper’s Automat to Jasper Johns’ Tennyson, Henri Matisse’s Woman in White, Georgia O’Keeffe’s From the Lake No. 1, and Francis Bacon’s Study after Velásquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X.
The Art Center’s physical complex marries with the collection for a totally integrated experience. The collection is housed in three major buildings; each designed by a world-renowned architect – Eliel Saarinen, I. M. Pei, and Richard Meier.
The Art Center extends its scope with Des Moines Art Center Downtown, an urban exhibition space and Museum Shop in the heart of downtown Des Moines."
Drake University Campus Architecture
Link to the Cowles Library archive of Drake Architecture images. This archive debuted in conjunction with the Building a Modern Campus: Eliel and Eero Saarinen at Drake University exhibition held in fall, 2008.
New art books - June 2009
Cowles Library has recently acquired the following titles:
Architecture and art of the Deccan sultanates [electronic resource] / Michell, George.
Hans Burkhardt: the California State University, Northridge Collection/ Burkhardt, Hans Gustav.
The painter's chair: George Washington and the making of American art/ Howard, Hugh.
Punctuation: art, politics, and play /Brody,Jennifer DeVere.
Beauty/Scruton, Roger.
The Guardian (UK) Art & Design Section
This online version of the art & design section of The Guardian contains "the latest news on art, architecture, design & photography."
The Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, WI)
"Four floors of over forty galleries of art are rotated regularly with works from antiquity to the present in the Museum's far-reaching Collection. Included in the Collection are 15th- to 20th-century European and 17th- to 20th-century American paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, decorative arts, photographs, and folk and self-taught art. Among the best in the nation are the Museum’s holding of American decorative arts, German Expressionism, folk and Haitian art, and American art after 1960. The Museum also holds one of the largest collections of works by Wisconsin native Georgia O’Keeffe."
Timeline of Art History
Created by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this is an excellent Web site covering the history of art (and politics) from 20000 BCE to 2000 CE. The site administrators continuously add to and update the content.
Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN)
"Formally established in 1927, the Walker Art Center began as the first public art gallery in the Upper Midwest. The museum's focus on modern art began in the 1940s, when a gift from Mrs. Gilbert Walker made possible the acquisition of works by important artists of the day, including sculptures by Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Alberto Giacometti, and others. During the 1960s, the Walker organized increasingly ambitious exhibitions that circulated to museums in the United States and abroad. The permanent collection expanded to reflect crucial examples of contemporary artistic developments; concurrently, performing arts, film, and education programs grew proportionately and gained their own national prominence throughout the next three decades. Today, the Walker is recognized internationally as a singular model of a multidisciplinary arts organization and as a national leader for its innovative approaches to audience engagement."
