Tuesday, November 24, 2009

SMFA related books

Did you know that the Library collects publications containing work by SMFA Faculty, students, and alumni? Here are some recent acquisitions:




David Lynch: the air is on fire
David Lynch, Kristine McKenna, Fondation Cartier
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, 2007









David Lynch: Beautiful Dark
By Greg Olson
Edition: illustrated
Published by Scarecrow Press, 2008







Yes, it's true, heralded film director David Lynch was once a student at the SMFA. He didn't graduate from here, but, hey, it still counts, right?





Blaze: Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism
Karen Frostig, Kathy A Halamka
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007









Blaze: Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism features essays by Performance Faculty member Mari Novotony-Jones, and Sculpture Faculty Mags Harries.






Abstract America
Saatchi Gallery (CON)
Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated, 2009







Alum Kristin Baker (BFA '98) is showcased in this book, which accompanied an exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, London.




Current : contemporary art from Australia and New Zealand / editor: Art & Australia
Paddington, N.S.W. : Dott Publishing, 2008
350 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm







Among the artists represented is the SMFA's own Performance Faculty member Tony Schwensen, highlighted with 4 pages of what some have called the best photographs of his work to date.



Marking the Land: Jim Dow in North Dakota
Jim Dow, Laurel Reuter
North Dakota Museum of Art, 2007








Jim Dow is an instructor in Photography at the SMFA.




Quiet ripples : the creative journey of Yoshiko Yamamoto
Yoshiko Yamamoto
Independent Publisher, 2009







Yoshiko is a Faculty member for the Metals department of the Museum School and Tufts.


Diaspora memory place : David Hammons, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Pamela Z
edited by Salah M. Hassan, Cheryl Finley
Munich ; New York : Prestel : Prince Claus Fund Library, c2008








Features work by SMFA Instructor Maria Magdalena Campos-pons



Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies
Shannon Rose Riley, Lynette Hunter
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009







Publishes an essay by Performance Faculty, and former Dean of Faculty, Marilyn Arsem