The Library has been very busy
over the summer installing a New Library Management System. This has allowed
the Library to re-look at some of its policies in the hope to improve its
services to users.
NEW LOAN ENTITLEMENTS:
All students are now entitled to
borrow up to 10 items at any one time. In addition Headphones, Laptops and
Visual Rulers are available to borrow (For use in the Library only).
HELP TO AVOID OVERDUE FINES:
2 days prior to the item being
due back to the library you will receive an email. This is to remind you about
your items on loan and that you need to return the items or renew them. If you
would like to keep using them, please click on the blue web-link in the e-mail.
This will take you straight to your Library account where you can click on a
renew button to extend the date on your library loans. You can do this up to
five times before you have to physically bring to item into the Library to
renew.
From your Library Account page you can also search the Library catalogue. Hopefully the new e-mail alert system will help you avoid overdue Library Fines
If you need help logging into
your Library account, searching the Library Catalogue or reserving books please
ask at the Library counter; and we will be happy to help. Equally if you need
help in accessing the Library’s databases please just ask.
NEW LIBRARY STUDY AREAS:
The Library’s space has been
slightly re-organised, in addition to the main Library there are now two quiet
study rooms; one is for complete silent study and the other is for quiet study,
where quiet conversation will be allowed.
NEW LIBRARY BOOKS ON DRAWING
An increased public and
academic interest in drawing and sketching, both traditional and digital, has
allowed drawing research to emerge recently as a discipline in its own right.
In light of this development, "Writing on Drawing" presents a collection
of essays by leading artists and drawing researchers that reveal a provocative
agenda for the field, analyzing the latest work on creativity, education, and
thinking from a variety of perspectives. "Writing on Drawing" offers
consolidation, discussion, guidance and an agenda to a fragmented community in
the form of essays by international drawing makers and drawing researchers.
Discussion extends to creativity, education and thinking, all with
multi-disciplinary viewpoints. An essential resource for artists, scientists,
designers, and engineers, this volume offers consolidation, discussion, and
guidance for a previously fragmented discipline. Drawing research is emerging
as a discipline in its own right. Very few resources exist to support the
international community which consists of artists, scientists, designers,
engineers - both within academia and in practice. It includes essays by leading
drawing makers and drawing researchers with international reputations. Steve
Garner is Director of the international Drawing Research Network. This
currently has 300 members internationally and a well visited web site.
This work presents a
selection of over one hundred important works from the Tate Collection, from
William Blake to Andy Warhol, selected by the British artist Avis Newman. The
presentation of rarely-seen drawings by so many major artists will make fresh
and startling connections between their work and give new insights into their
creative processes.
In an era which has seen many forms of artistic creation becoming digitized, the practice of drawing, in the traditional sense, has remained constant. However, many publications about the relationship between drawing and thinking rely on discipline-dependent distinctions to discuss the activity's function. "Drawing: The Enactive Evolution of the Practitioner" redefines drawing more holistically as an enactive phenomenon, and makes connections between a variety of disciplines in order to find out how drawing helps us understand the world. Instead of the finite event of producing an artifact, drawing is a process and an end in itself, through which the practitioner might gain self-awareness. By synthesizing enactive thinking and the practice of drawing, this volume provides valuable insights into the creative mind, and will appeal to scholars and practitioners alike.
Features work by 50
artists including Susan Hauptman, Paul Noble, Jeff Gabel, Tracey Emin, Jane
Harris, Erwin Wurm, Cornelia Parker, David Shirgley and Sarah Woodfine.
Drawing Ambiguity: Beside The Lines Of Contemporary Art/ Edited By Russell Marshall And Phil Sawdon.
This is the third book in
the innovative TRACEY series on contemporary drawing. Drawing Ambiguity builds
upon its predecessors, Drawing Now and Hyperdrawing, by proposing that a
position of ambiguity, a lack of definition, is not only desirable within fine
art drawing but also necessary - having the capacity to enable and sustain
drawing practices. What happens if we are ambivalent to what is a drawing, or
what drawing is? Russell Marshall and Phil Sawdon bring together multiple perspectives
from within and without the fine art drawing field to respond to these
questions. Contributors include artist Ilana Halperin, artist-researcher
Deborah Harty, artist and founder member of the group Underworld Karl Hyde, the
creative collaboration Kreider + O'Leary, artist, writer Michael Phillipson,
artist, academic Rob Ward, editors Marshall and Sawdon together with an
Introduction by the artist, writer and curator Derek Horton.
In hyperdrawing: beyond
the lines of contemporary art, authors and artists come together to explore the
potential of what drawing in contemporary art theory and practice might become.
In this follow-up to 2007's drawing now: between the lines of contemporary art,
Phil Sawdon and Russell Marshall, two of the current directors of TRACEY,
curate contemporary drawing within fine art practice from 2006 through to 2010.
Four essays and images from 33 international artists collectively explore the
boundaries of the hyperdrawing space, investigating in essence what lies beyond
drawing - images that use traditional materials or subjects whilst also pushing
beyond the traditional, employing sound, light, time, space and technology.
Over and above traditional views and practices, the authors and artists in this
book recognise and embrace the opportunities inherent in the essential
ambiguity of drawing. Practitioners of hyperreal works, 2D3D4D pieces and
installations that push beyond photorealism all find their place within this
new conception of hyperdrawing as techne, a productive space no longer limited
by spatial boundaries. Artists including Catherine Bertola, Layla Curtis,
Garrett Phelan, Suzanne Treister and Ulrich Vogl alongside the essays of Emma
Cocker, Siun Hanrahan and Marsha Meskimmon provide a contemporary view in both
visual and written form of how ambiguity can be used as a strategic approach in
drawing research and practice. A gallery in book form, hyperdrawing takes drawing
beyond the interaction of pencil and paper and traces contemporary adventures
in multiple dimensions and alternate realities.
From John Currin's
old-master-style Playboy bunnies to Elizabeth Peyton's fin-de-siecle portraits;
from Julie Mehretu's dizzying, multilayered architectural landscapes to Shahzia
Sikander's multipatterned miniature ones; from Yoshitomo Nara's angry and enigmatic
little girls to Kara Walker's stereotypical negresses; and from Barry McGee's
caricatures of urban graffiti to Matthew Ritchie's cosmological diagrams -
drawing is back, if it ever went away. In contrast to the digitized, multimedia
direction that much of contemporary art has taken in the past decade, drawing
has become a major and arguably parallel mode of expression for many of today's
most important young artists. Drawing Now, published to accompany the first
major survey of contemporary drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in
15 years, contains more than 100 colour reproductions of work by 26
international artists, both well-known and emerging, that demonstrate the
fascinating variety of methods and approaches, mediums and scales, apparent in
this old-again, new-again art. Accompanying essays by the exhibition's curator,
Lara Hoptman, explore eight themes that she perceives in the field - Drafting
and Architecture; Mental Maps and Metaphysics; Popular Culture and National
Culture; Fashion; Likeness and Allegory; Envisioning a City; Science and Art;
Comics and other Subcultures; and Ornament and Crime - and provide key impulses
behind drawing's recent resurgence.
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