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Summer Dissertation Support Sessions

Want to get a head start on your dissertation? Come along to our Summer Dissertation Support Sessions!

The Library and Study Zone are joining forces to put on sessions to teach you how to find resources, read and take take notes, reference and use theory!

New books from the 'Documents of Contemporary Art' series.

Destruction  /  edited by Sven Spieker.  (2017) 700.108 SPI

Essays explore contemporary artists' engagement with destruction, and how it has disrupted the perceived integrity of built structures and institutions.

Practice  /  edited by Marcus Boon and Gabriel Levine.  ([2018]) 

700.1 BOO

Summer support sessions for Dissertation!

Are you second year student? Have you been given your dissertation assignment brief? Not sure where to start?

Don't worry!

The Study Zone and Library are running dissertation support sessions this summer, in July and August, to help you feel prepared to do your dissertation research project.

How to renew Library items!

We've all been there... find loads of really interesting books, take them home, and then forget to read them.

If you need to renew a library item you can do this by:

1 - logging into your library account, here (you might need to set a password if you have never done this before - click on the 'forgot password link')

2 - by replying to the overdue items email that the library sends (these may be in your spam folder)

3 - by emailing the library at library@pca.ac.uk

4 - by calling us on 01752 203413

5 - by popping in to the library and either using the self service machine, or coming to the library desk.

A History of Screen Printing.

We have received a lovely donation of 'A History of Screen Printing' by Guido Lengwiler .

This is a comprehensive guide to the history of screen printing, and has some wonderful examples of screen printed work, from advertising and mass production, to recreation of art works.

You can find it at 764 LEN

Wabi Sabi.

Wabi - Sabi
'this Japanese term means “a way of living that focuses on finding beauty within the imperfections of life and accepting peacefully the natural cycle of growth and decay.”' Collins, 2018.

Wabi-sabi for artists, designers, poets & philosophers  /  by Leonard Koren.  (1994)

701.170952 KOR












Wabi-Sabi - Further Thoughts.  /  Leonard Koren.  (2015)

701.170952 KOR




Wabi-Sabi Wisdom: Inspiration for an Authentic Life.  /  Andrea Jacques  (2016)

158.1 JAC

Kintsugi : heal your life, repair the cracks and embrace imperfection - the Japanese way  /  Tomás Navarro.  (2018)

158.1 NAV

Illustration books for April!

A river  /  by Marc Martin.  (2016)

741.642092 MAR

There is a river outside my window. Where will it take me? So begins an imaginary journey from the city to the sea. From factories to farmlands, freeways to forest, each new landscape is explored through stunning illustrations and poetic text from this award-winning picture-book creator.






Reportage illustration : visual journalism  /  Gary Embury and Mario Minichiello.  (2018)

741.6 EMB The power of reportage drawing is in the immediacy of the images that are created and the feeling of the illustrator's presence on location. Comparable in some ways to photojournalism, reportage illustrators are acting as visual journalists, proactively creating narrative work about issues and subjects, translating what they witness into handmade imagery.

Beautiful Book Covers!

The illustrated dust jacket 1920-1970  

Martin Salisbury.  (2017)

741.640904 SAL

The middle decades of the twentieth century saw an extraordinary flourishing of the illustrated, pictorial dust jacket. From the 1920s, as the potential for the book’s protective wrapping to be used for promotion and enticement became clear, artists and illustrators on both sides of the Atlantic applied their talents to this particular art form. Rising to the wide-ranging challenges posed by format and subject matter, leading artists and illustrators, including John Piper, Edward Bawden and John Minton in the UK and Ben Shahn, Edward Gorey and George Salter in the USA, brought their unique personal vision to bear on the world of books. Many of their designs reflect the changing visual styles and motifs of the period, including Bloomsbury, Art Deco, Modernism, postwar neo-romanticism and the Kitchen Sink School. 

Martin Salisbury has selected over fifty of the artists and illustrators who were active in the period 1920–1970 in the UK and USA, as well as others such as Tove Jansson and Celestino Piatti, and discusses their life and work. A selection of dust jackets – both known and too long forgotten – for each artist reveals how far the book as an artefact had travelled from the days of the plain wrapper in the nineteenth century.

The Body.

New books about the body, and body image.

The disabled body in contemporary art  /  Ann Millett-Gallant.  (2012)

704.942 MIL

The honest body project : raw stories and untouched portraits of women and motherhood   /  Natalie McCain.  ([2017]) 779.2 McC This is who I am  /  Rosanne Olson ; foreword by Rita Charon.  (c2008) 779.22 OLS The body at risk : photography of disorder, illness, and healing

Brand new self service machine!

The Library has recently installed a shiny new self service machine - this means that the process of borrowing and returning books should be much quicker and easier.

All you need to do is touch your card to the reader on the front of the machine - and then place ALL the items you are taking out, onto the shelf.

It will then give you return dates, which you can either have as a printed slip, or and email notification - helping to use less paper and protect our environment.

Library staff will still be on hand to help out!

Let us know what you think!

library@pca.ac.uk

Harvard Referencing Sessions!

Harvard Referencing Help!

Dear 3rd year students,

As the dissertation deadline looms, the library are offering help with Harvard referencing.

From Monday the 15th of January and all of next week, Donna and Emily will be offering sessions to check over your referencing.

We welcome drop-ins, however to ensure that we can see as manystudents as possible it is advisable to book a session by emailing library@pca.ac.uk