A Book We Like: Painting Today

From Library Assistant Jenna:

David Schnell Flyover (Auffahrt)

page 258

Painting Today is loaded with over 400 pages of real high quality images from start to finish, no major color distortion or overload of boring text. There is something in here for everyone, categorized into 16 themed chapters such as "Ambiguous Abstraction," "Painting Space," "Post-Feminism," and "Painting Tomorrow." This book is nice and big and fat, making it exciting to open. Check it out before it loses its new book smell.

Lucian Freud Painter and Model (detail)
page 172

Cecily Brown Skulldiver IV (detail)
page 289

Matthias Weischer Overhead Light (Oberlicht)

page 385

Fall 2010 Lecture Series

The SMFA Library Presents:

Navigating the Labyrinth:
A Series of Talks on How, Why, and What We Read

Join us in the SMFA Library as each of our speakers shares a unique perspective on reading, writing, and contemporary art discourse. These open-ended, wide-ranging talks will address the issues vital to art scholarship of today.

Bring coffee, bring tea, bring lunch, bring a friend - be there!

Jim Dow
Wednesday, October 20
12:30 - 1:45 pm

Gerry Bergstein
Wednesday, November 10
12:30 - 1:45 pm

Erika Adams
Wednesday, November 17
12:30 - 1:45 pm

NEW ADDITION!
Ron Rizzi
Wednesday, December 1
12:30 - 1:45 pm

Watch this space for details!

Navigating the Labyrinth returns!

Are you thirsty for knowledge?
Parched for inspiration?
Searching for answers in a labyrinth of distractions?

Come quench your thirst at the return of the SMFA Library's popular lecture series:

Navigating the Labyrinth:
A Series of Talks on How, Why, and What We Read

Join us for our first lecture of the semester:



















Jim Dow
Wednesday, October 20
12:30-1:45 pm
SMFA Library

Jim Dow is a teacher of Photography and Visual and Critical Studies at SMFA, as well as a published author and photographer. He is a prolific storehouse of knowledge and an immense asset to the SMFA community. Jim will be speaking with his usual finesse, clarity, and humor, addressing the vital questions of how, why, and what we read.
Unfamiliar with Jim and his work? Check out the links below:

The Getty

Clark Gallery

See you there!

New Book Highlights: Drawing

Daniel Johnston
Jad Fair, Philippe Vergne & Harvey Pekar
Rizzoli, 2009























On Paper: From Raphael to Beuys, from Rembrandt to Trockel
Sonja Brink, Silvia Carmellini & Beat Wismer
Kerber, 2009























The Primacy of Drawing: Histories and Theories of Practice
Deanna Petherbridge
Yale University Press, 2010


















Norman Pettingill: Backwoods Humorist
Johnny Ryan & Gary Groth
Fantagraphics Books, 2010























Master Drawings Close-Up
Julian Brooks
Getty Publications, 2010























Julie Mehretu: Grey Area
Brian Dillon & Joan Young
Deutsche Guggenheim, 2010























Gustav Klimt: Erotic Sketches
Norbert Wolf
Prestel, 2005

Other new acquisitions from this series, thanks to a generous gift:

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn: Erotic Sketches
Pablo Picasso: Erotic Sketches
Auguste Rodin: Erotic Sketches
Egon Schiele: Erotic Sketches
Henri Matisse: Erotic Sketches
Oskar Kokoschka: Erotic Sketches

New Book Highlights: Photography

Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography Since the Sixties
Brett Abbott
Getty Publications, 2010






















The art of the American snapshot, 1888-1978
Sarah Greenough & Diane Waggoner
National Gallery of Art, 2007






















Impressed by light: British photographs from paper negatives, 1840-1860
Roger Taylor
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007






















Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980
Kevin Moore
Hatje Cantz, 2010






















The photographed animal : useful, cute and collected
Ute Eskildsen
Steidl, 2005






















Proud flesh
Sally Mann
Aperture Foundation Books, 2009























Apocalipsis
Álvaro Ybarra Zavala
Turner, 2010



















Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870
Sandra S. Phillips
Yale University Press, 2010





















America by car
Lee Friedlander
Distributed Art Publishers, 2010





















Photowisdom: Master Photographers and Their Art
Lewis Blackwell
Chronicle Books, 2009

New Book Highlights: Painting

Exactitude: hyperrealist art today

John Russell Taylor & Maggie Bollaert

Thames & Hudson, 2009












The magic of things: still-life painting, 1500-1800

Jochen Sander

Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008













Tracing the Past, Drawing the Future:Master Ink Painters in Twentieth-Century China

Xiaoneng Yang

5 Continents Editions, 2010












Painting abstraction: new elements in abstract painting

Robert Nickas

Phaidon, 2009














Caravaggio: The complete works

Sebastian Schutze

Taschen America LLC, 2009