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Selected Books on Contemporary Painting
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Painting Now
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In Painting Now, renowned critic and art historian Suzanne Hudson offers an intelligent and original survey of contemporary painting—a critical snapshot that brings together more than 200 artists from around the world whose work is defining the ideas and aesthetics that characterize the painting of our time.
Call Number: ND196.2 .H84 2015 -
Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting
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Newest installment in the Vitamin series.
Call Number: ND195 .V571 2016 -
Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World
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"temporality, or timelessness, manifests itself in painting as an ahistorical free-for-all, where contemporaneity as an indicator of new form is nowhere to be found, and all eras co-exist. This profligate mixing of past styles and genres is a hallmark for our moment in painting, which artists achieve by reanimating historical styles or creating a contemporary version of them.
Call Number: ND196.2 .H67 2014 -
Painting (Documents of Contemporary Art)
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Anthology of critical writings. Painting has often been pronounced dead since the end of the 19th century, yet its resurgence in the 1980s initiated a dramatic expansion of its field.
Call Number: ND196.2 .P33 2011 -
Painting Today by Painting Today is a comprehensive overview of the last 30 years of painting, presenting work by celebrated figures like Gerhard Richter and Neo Rauch alongside emerging artists like Jumaldi Alfi and Ingrid Calame.
Call Number: ND195 .G64 2009 -
Vitamin P
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This highly illustrated overview of the state of painting documents concerns and ideas among contemporary painters. Often moving beyond the traditional image associated with this medium, this survey illustrates the richness, eclecticism, dynamism and contemporaneity of painting.
Call Number: ND195 .V57 2002 -
Vitamin P2
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This edition includes 115 artists from over thirty countries who represent the best of the new international painting.
Call Number: ND195 .V571 2011 -
Painting People: Figure Painting Today
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Sixty-nine artists are profiled. Included in the group are Chuck Close, Lucian Freud, and Eric Fischl.
Call Number: ND1290 .M85 2006 -
How to Read Contemporary Art: Experiencing the Art of the 21st Century
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Today’s artists create work that’s challenging, complicated, and often perplexing, and this book offers a guide to understanding—and enjoying—the wide range of works on display in museums and galleries worldwide.
Call Number: N6497 .W55 2013 -
Art Now! Vol: 4
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The ongoing catalog of contemporary art, now in its fourth volume Think of this tome as a global go-round of the world's most influential galleries: if it's hot in the art world today, it's in this book.
Call Number: N6490.4 .A37 2013 -
Painting Abstraction: new elements in abstract painting
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Bob Nickas introduces the reader to the key issues in contemporary abstraction while profiling eighty artists who, in the last five years, have made it one of the most exciting areas in contemporary art
Call Number: ND196.A2 N53 2014
Selected Books on Painting Techniques and Materials
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Artist's Manual
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A veritable bible for beginners as well as an invaluable reference for accomplished artists, The Artist's Manual is a hands-on guide to hundreds of techniques for painting and drawing. For anyone who has ever had the urge to create art, this easy-to-use manual clearly explains the artist's essential tools and materials -- how to choose them, how to use them, and how to care for them.
Call Number: N7430 .A739 1996 -
Beneath the Surface by Have you ever looked at a painting by Holbein, or Titian, or Matisse, and wondered 'How was that done?' Taking a practical rather than a theoretical approach to appreciating art, this book tells the story that lies beneath the surface of the paintings and takes the reader on a journey that reveals how the end results were achieved. Along the way we find out about the complexities, dangers, successes and failures of the artist's search for brilliant colours, useful tools and effective techniques. Guided by artist and conservator Philippa Abrahams, we follow the history of art from the drawings of Michelangelo to the works of Jackson Pollock and David Hockney. The story is punctuated by changes in materials and techniques that enabled artists to work in different ways.
Call Number: ND1471 .A27 2008 -
Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters
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David Hockney, often described as the 'world's most popular artist,' has made headlines not with his own work but with his sensational and controversial theories about how some of Western art's famous masterpieces - paintings by artists such as da Vinci, Caravaggio, Velázquez, and Van Eyck - were actually created.
Call Number: ND1471 .H63 2006b -
Inside the Painter's Studio
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Inside the Painter's Studio collects twenty-four remarkable artist interviews, as well as exclusive visual documentation of their studios. Featured artists were asked a wide range of questions about their day-to-day creative life, covering everything from how they organize their studios to what painting tools they prefer.
Call Number: ND212.7 .F54 2009 -
The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques
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Since 1940, when it was originally published, The Artist's Handbook has become indispensable for thousands of practicing artists and art students. The book has remained continually in print through many editions and has sold more than a quarter of a million copies. A detailed index makes a wealth of information readily available. Charts and line drawings throughout.
Call Number: ND1500 .M3 1991
Selected Books on Color
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Color: A Course in the Art of Mixing Colors
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This guide distills the enormous existing knowledge about color theory into a practical method of working with color to produce harmonious combinations. Using techniques tested and honed in her five-day intensive color workshops, Edwards provides a basic understanding of how to see color, how to use it, and - for those involved in art, painting, or design - how to mix and combine hues.
Call Number: ND1488 .E35 2004 -
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
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Discover the tantalizing true stories behind your favorite colors. For example: Cleopatra used saffron—a source of the color yellow—for seduction. Extracted from an Afghan mine, the blue “ultramarine” paint used by Michelangelo was so expensive he couldn’t afford to buy it himself. Since ancient times, carmine red—still found in lipsticks and Cherry Coke today—has come from the blood of insects.
Call Number: ND1488 .F56 2004 -
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter
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Call Number: ND1500 .G86 2010 -
Color and Meaning
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Is color just a physiological reaction, a sensation resulting from different wave lengths of light on receptors in our eyes? Does color have an effect on our feelings? The phenomenon of color is examined in extraordinary new ways in John Gage's latest book.
Call Number: ND1488 .G344 1999 -
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today
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"Color Chart" addresses the impact of standardized, mass-produced color on the art of the past 60 years. Taking the commercial color chart as its central metaphor, this volume chronicles an important artistic shift that took place during the middle of the twentieth century: a frank acknowledgment of color as a matter-of-fact element rather than a vehicle of spiritual or emotional content.
Call Number: N7432.7 .T46 2008 -
Interaction of Color, 2 vols.
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One of the most influential books on color ever published, Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color is a masterwork. Originally issued in 1963 as a limited-edition set of commentary and 150 silkscreened color plates, the book introduced generations of students, artists, designers, and collectors to Albers’s unique approach to complex principles.
Call Number: REF ND1489 .A4 2009
Some DVDs on Painting
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Painters Painting
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Emile de Antonio was a close friend to many New York painters who later went on to become famous. He filmed and interviewed them informally in their studios. Artists included are Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jules Olitski, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, Larry Poons, Phillip Pavia, and Hans Hoffman.
Call Number: VT 3060 cat. 16 DVD -
Gerhard Richter Painting
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Gerhard Richter and art historian Benjamin HD Buchloh in conversation (23 min.); Fragments of a conversation : curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist meets Gerhard Richter (10 min.); Gerhard Richter prepares for the Munich exhibition "Abstract paintings" (9 min.)
Call Number: VT 4348 cat. 16 DVD -
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture
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Filmed over three years, this documentary is an unprecedented record of a major artist at work. It captures David Hockney's return from California to paint his native Yorkshire, outside, through the seasons, and in all weathers. It tells the story of a homecoming and gives a revealing portrait of what inspires and motivates today's greatest living British-born artist.
Call Number: VT 4305 cat. 16 DVD -
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
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A breathtaking new documentary from the incomparable Werner Herzog, follows an exclusive expedition into the nearly inaccessible Chauvet Cave in France, home to the most ancient visual art known to have been created by man. An unforgettable cinematic experience that provides an unique glimpse of pristine artwork dating back to human hands over 30,000 years ago, almost twice as old as any previous discovery.
Call Number: VT 4213 cat. 3 DVD
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Painting Call Numbers
Subclass ND
ND25-3416 Painting
ND25-(48) General
ND49-813 History
ND1115-1120 Study and teaching
ND1130-1156 General works
ND1288-1460 Special subjects
ND1290-1293 Human figure
ND1300-1337 Portraits
ND1340-1367 Landscape painting
ND1370-1375 Marine painting
ND1380-1383 Animals. Birds
ND1385-1388 Sports. Hunting, fishing, etc.
ND1390-1393 Still life
ND1400-1403 Flowers. Fruit. Trees
ND1410-1460 Other subjects
ND1470-1625 Technique and materials
ND1630-1662 Examination and conservation of paintings
ND1700-2495 Watercolor painting
ND2550-2733 Mural painting
ND2889-3416 Illuminating of manuscripts and books
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Selected Art Websites
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Art 21Documentary series produced by PBS on contemporary artists.
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Art NewspaperOnline and paper publication based in London and New York
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ArtsyFeatures the world’s leading galleries, museum collections all in one place. Check out the Art Genome Project which allows you to search artists by category.
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Google Art ProjectThe Art Project is a unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art institutions to enable people to discover and view artworks online in extraordinary detail.
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HyperallergicPerspectives on contemporary art and culture.
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JuxtapozOnline version of magazine with coverage of contemporary visual culture.
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RhizomeResource for people who are interested in new media art, the intersection of new technologies and contemporary art.
Citation Help
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MLA Handbook, 9th Edition
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Call Number: REF LB2369 .G53 2021 -
The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th Edition
Call Number: REF Z253 .C453 U558 2024
