New Titles in Visual Arts

Feast your eyes on several new books on photography, painting, drawing, graffit, and graphic design:

Graphic Design: Now In Production Andrew Blauvelt & Ellen Lupton. Walker Art Center. 2011.

In conjunction with an exhibition at Walker Art Center and other institutions, Oct. 22, 2011, and Jan. 2014

Graphic Design: A New History Stephen Eskilson. Yale U. Press. 2012.

Covers Bauhaus, American modern, Postmodernism and more

Graffiti and Street Art Anna Waclawek. Thames & Hudson. 2011.

Graffiti's genealogy; urban visual culture; tags, throwies

Extra/ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art Maria Elena Buszek, ed. 2011.

Explores craftivist history; queer theory; letterpress printing

The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art In a Global Context Grant H. Kester Duke U. Press. 2011.

Explores the work of artists and groups such as Superflux, Francis Alys, Santiago Sierra; looks at the parallels of the work of these artists with that of NGOs, urban planners, activists.

Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett: Recasting Pygmalion: a Collaborative Art Project Essay by Lynn Zelevansky. Rizzoli. 2002. From an exhibition at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2002.

Featured Online Resource, Oct. 17

This week's Featured Online Resource is Toondoo.com, a great tool for educators and more. Take your announcements, instructions, explanations and more and represent them visually in the form of cartoons.

Toondoo provides you with cartoon panels, a selection of characters, settings, props, etc., and you do the rest. You can put your resulting work out there with facebook or twitter, and can of course save your cartoons as image files and go from there. You are also given an account to store or display your toons--you can either keep them private and distribute them only as you wish, or make them available openly--there is a small community on other cartoonists who may comment on your creations.

Here's one discussing the uses of subject headings in research databases

Every week, the Ort Library brings you a new and outstanding resource from the Web or from one of the library's databases. To get an archive of all FOR entries, click here. Also, you can suggest a website that provides well-organized access to useful info.