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TOUCHINGSpecial edition art and essay edition bookTouching is what makes us humanTouching is the heart of our beingm it is at its corehttps://lnkd.in/eNfQWNeX

"Archival photographs can let users see parts of history that may not be captured in textual documents. Along with the many positive attributes of photographs come many challenges to acquisition—but working through those issues is often worth it."#archives #archivist #archivists #archival #SpecialCollections

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Four of my self-published collage books are now available for online purchase. Simply go to Blurb Books and type in my name. Selected pages from each book can also be previewed.An ongoing series, these collage books were created on the weekly art reproduction pages of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Engagement Book, my calendar of choice for many years. Elements used to make every collage were either created, acquired, photographed or found on the corresponding week, making these books, in essence, visual diaries. With the chance interplay between day-to-day reality and the iconic art from The Met, the result is an enigmatic blend of everyday life, art history, fiction, and memory.

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My first paying job was at a public library in the Chicago suburbs in the early 1980s. I was in the eighth grade and I would check books in and out at the circulation desk, and retrieve and shelve them, as well as magazines and other periodicals and media from the stacks and in the archives in the building's basem*nt. To this day, when I find myself a guest in someone's home, I am irrepressibly drawn to the available bookshelves where I try and suss out the owner's taxonomy and interests in search of something I either recognize, want to read (but haven't gotten to, yet) or find intriguing (with bonus points for foreign language material).If the stories we tell ourselves and others (be they true, allegorical, misleading or downright and demonstrably false) are fundamental to the way we organize and understand (or not) our lives - and I happen to believe they are - then THE LIBRARY, as concept, category, and as a centralized repository of stories and other information, must surely represent something akin to the collective and shared personality, memory and experience of, by and for a people. In due recognition of these repositories, keep an eye out on some posts from my colleagues at 221B Partners in the coming days to celebrate and support National Library Week (and the former and current professionals who staff our libraries). We'll be extolling the virtues of the library and the vast array of information researchers can find for free (with a library card). To kick off this series of modest tributes, it seems appropriate to start with our nation's de facto library, the Library of Congress. As investigative research professionals in the consulting marketplace, we pay lots of attention at work to our catalog of database resources and the latest technologies to support our work and supply our clients with information and insight. We remain, however, quick to exploit the available resources from libraries. The Library of Congress' collection spans audio, digital and print media and includes everything from music, manuscripts, books and films, to legislation, web archives, Tweets, photography, early 20th Century Chicago phone books, and old annual reports (DuPont 1910, anyone?), to name but a few for starters.So, do let your fingers wander across the keyboard and check out the Library of Congress. You can find it online at https://www.loc.gov/. And, thank you, librarians!

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From a resent series of Photographic Essays.

More good news, following on from digitising the Conway. (@ Martin Hopkinson and many others!)

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New Article!https://lnkd.in/dMBzsJ3pAccording to the results of the research, the attitudes of the participants towards the visual arts course; while there were no significant differences according to the variables of visiting the exhibition, the type of painting they like to paint, the type of paint they like to use, the presence of a workshop at school, the branch of the teacher attending the course, the type of school and the place where they teach the course, it has been concluded that the attitudes of the students show significant differences according to their gender and whether they like to paint or not.

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Art History: A Very Short IntroductionSecond EditionDana ArnoldVery Short IntroductionsIntroduces the study of art history considering the artefacts and debates which it coversDiscusses how we write, present, read, and look at artPart of theVery Short Introductionsseries - over ten million copies sold worldwideNew to this Edition:This new edition includes a new chapter on global art histories, expanding the discussion of art from non-western culturesIncludes new material on the relationship between art and history, and the ways in which art can tell a different history from the one narrated by texts

The last month of the year requires compulsory reminiscing of the best books of 2023, and The History of Art Without Men still stands strong on my list. I very much enjoyed writing this article for Varsity earlier this year, so please do give it a read if you still haven't decided on all of your Christmas presents :)https://lnkd.in/eVGpw7un#historyofartwithoutmen#katyhessel#varsity#arts#artswriting

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