"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."

"An online repository of facsimiles, metadata, and criticism."

Berkeley book artist Julie Chen is featured on the PBS television series Craft in America produced by the organization of the same name. Chen's book 'The Veil' is part of Cowles Library's special collection of artists' books.

Cowles Library's special collection of handmade and artists' books will be part of 'The Book in Time and Place: A Selection of Artist Books from The University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections and Drake Universities Cowles Library' exhibition that runs from September 11, 2009 to October 9, 2009 in the Anderson Gallery on the Drake University campus.

The Veil, by Julie Chen. Cowles Library Special Collections.

For more information: http://www.drake.edu/news/db/official/archive.php?article=4677

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.

Grove encyclopedia of Islamic art and architecture.

"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."

Ediciones Vigía is a publishing house located in the city of in Matanzas, Cuba. Vigía was founded in
the mid-1980s by artists and musicians and continues to produce limited edition, handmade books on a variety of topics and in a variety of formats.

Cowles Library has recently acquired six recent handmade books from Ediciones Vigía for its special collection of artists books.

Milían, Juan Luís Hernandez et al., Yo quería escribir como Vallejo, Havana: Ediciones Vigía, 2008.

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