Article Archive for June 2010
Clear as Mud: Early 20th Century Kentucky Art Pottery: First book on Kentucky art pottery
Clear as Mud: Early 20th Century Kentucky Art Pottery, a modest but ground-breaking look at art pottery produced in Kentucky in the first half of the 20th century, has just been published. It deals with such potteries as Cornelison Bybee, Waco, the Bybee Pottery Co. of Lexington (Selden-Bybee, Genuine Bybee), Louisville Pottery Co. (Cherokee), Kenton Hills Porcelains and Hadley. Such other ceramics as art tile, drain-tile premiums and Western Kentucky’s “pinch pots” are ... Read More
Ray Harryhausen – A Life in Pictures Book Published
A very special, limited edition, volume, called Ray Harryhausen – A Life in Pictures with nearly 300 images, will be published on the 26th June to coincide with the evening at the National Film Theatre on that date, and to celebrate Ray’s 90th birthday. The book will be published by the Foundation and the cost will be £30, all of which will go towards the preservation, restoration of a number of Ray’s models. So if you buy this unique book you will be taking part in helping to ... Read More
ProQuest and Getty Research Institute Announce Second Chapter for International Bibliography of Art
ProQuest and Getty Research Institute work together to continue pivotal art history database ProQuest, an information technology firm supporting global research, and the Getty Research Institute (GRI), dedicated to advancing understanding of the world’s artistic heritage, announce an agreement that will allow ProQuest to take over the indexing of the International Bibliography of Art (IBA), providing a secure future for a resource considered central to the study of art history. The ... Read More
British Museum Presents New Book: Jewellery in the Age of Queen Victoria
This book new rewrites the history of jewellery in the age of Victoria. The ‘age of Victoria’ is taken in its widest sense to encompass jewellery made throughout Europe and America, displayed at the great international exhibitions and distributed through foreign trade, illustrated publications and a burgeoning tourist industry. Throughout, links with other disciplines will provide both the specialist and the non-specialist with the information to understand how jewellery permeated all ... Read More
Photographer Lee Friedlander New Book – America by Car
Enduring icons of American culture, the car and the highway remain vital as auguries of adventure and discovery, and a means by which to take in the country’s vast scale. Lee Friedlander is the first photographer to make the car an actual “form” for making photographs. Driving across most of the country’s 50 states in an ordinary rental car, Friedlander applied the brilliantly simple conceit of deploying the sideview mirror, rearview mirror, the windshield and the side ... Read More
American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts – New Publication
With this publication, produced in conjunction with the largest expansion in the history of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the full scope of the museum’s outstanding American art collection is represented for the very first time. Following an introduction tracing the history of American art at this encyclopedic museum−a state-supported, privately endowed institution−readers will discover lively and generously illustrated essays about selected paintings, sculptures, and works on paper ... Read More
