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Guerrilla Girls records, 1985–2000
2008.M.14
The archive chronicles this feminist protest group that was formed to fight discrimination against women artists and artists of color. Files illuminate the development of the Guerrilla Girls' polemics and tactics, documenting public and private responses to their protest actions.
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Sculpture, silkscreens, and videotape related to Philip Johnson's (American, 1906–2005) Habitable Sculpture, 2000
2008.M.59
Two models, one video tape, and ten silkscreen prints of drawings document designs for the last building in which the architect Johnson was actively involved. His idea was to create a high-rise that looked like a gigantic sculpture, each side appearing different from the others. Gift of Antonio "Nino" Vendome and Family.
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Kirk Varnedoe (American, 1946–2003) papers, 1946–2003
2008.M.60
The papers of this prominent scholar, teacher, and curator provide insight into the central role he played in advancing the knowledge of modern art among art historians and the general public alike. Gift of Elyn Zimmerman.
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Collection of 15 video works by Japanese artists from Scan Archive, 1972–1988
2008.M.17–2008.M.31
This collection features the best selection of early video works from the archive of Video Gallery Scan, which was founded in 1980 in Tokyo by artist Nakaya Fujiko (Japanese, b. 1933) and became a center of video art, hosting biannual video competitions and introducing works by American artists such as Bill Viola and Gary Hill.
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Album de La Revue blanche, Paris, 1895
2008.PR.13
A rare portfolio of twelve post-impressionist prints issued by L'Estampe originale for the literary and art journal La Revue blanche in Paris in 1895 contains works by Pierre Bonnard, Charles Cottet, Maurice Denis, Henri-Gabriel Ibels, Paul Ranson, Odilon Redon, József Rippl-Rónai, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Paul Sérusier, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Félix Vallotton, and Edouard Vuillard.
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Julius Meier-Graefe (German, 1867–1935), ed.
Erste Ganymed-Mappe, Munich, 1921
2008.PR.4
Published as a supplement to Ganymed: Jahrbuch für die Kunst, this portfolio contains original graphics by notable early-twentieth-century German artists, including Max Beckmann, Lovis Corinth, Alfred Kubin, Richard Seewald, and Max Slevogt.
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Ker-Xavier Roussel (French, 1867–1944)
Album de paysage, ca. 1898
2008.PR.12
Originally commissioned by Ambroise Vollard for an album of landscape prints that was never published, this rare suite of six color lithographs was printed by August Clot and issued in an edition of one hundred.
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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, 1727–1804)
The stoning of Saint Stephen, ca. 1754
2008.PR.16
An etching after a lost painting by Tiepolo depicts the death of the first early Christian martyr. Tiepolo's graphic vocabulary, characterized by extremely fine parallel lines, evokes the rich tonal variations and sense of atmosphere fundamental to Venetian painting. Gift of Dr. Richard A. Simms
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Guillaume Apollinaire (French, 1880–1918), et al.
Album-catalogue de l'exposition André Derain ouverte du 15 au 21 octobre 1916 à la Galerie Paul Guillaume, Paris, 1916
2791-856
A catalogue of Derain's first personal exhibition, which took place during the peak of World War I, traces the trajectory of the French avant-garde and its transformation during the war.
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Art & Project Bulletin, Amsterdam, 1968–1998
86-S1343
The 156 issues of the Art & Project Bulletin constitute the longest running, and perhaps the most important, serial publication on conceptual art, including a veritable who's who of significant artists.
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Gerard Blancken (Dutch, b. 1669)
Catalogus antiquarium et novarum rerum..., Leiden, 1695
2792-121
Listing the enumerated exhibits of the anatomical theater at Leiden in the late-seventeenth century, this catalogue includes specimens of animal and human body parts, together with items both ethnographic and fantastical. It offers testimony to the way such large-scale exhibits invited spectators to construct individual meaning out of the collective experience and to contemplate their own mortality.
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Michael S. Cherney (American, b. 1969)
Twilight Cranes, Beijing, 2007
2789-113
A photographic handscroll produced by Cherney, a contemporary photographer and book artist, combines a traditional Asian format and content with a contemporary medium. A variation on the twentieth-century Western genre of artists' books, this new version publishes its readings of landscape and natural forms with digital photography and pixilated printing. Acquired with the support of the Research Library Council.
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Godefroy Engelmann (French, 1788–1839)
Manuel du dessinateur lithographe, Paris, 1822
2784-613
Among a group of several artists' manuals on lithography acquired recently, this extremely rare French treatise is an important example of the technological literature that helped to fuel the rapid expansion of lithography in France and throughout Europe. This work includes a discussion of Engelmann's discovery of aquatint lithography, a process that reproduced the appearance of a wash drawing.
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Julien Claude Galland (French, n.d.)
Recueil des rits et cérémonies du pelerinage de la Mecque, auquel on a joint, divers écrits relatifs à la religion, aux sciences & aux moeurs des Turcs, Amsterdam and Paris, 1754
2783-806
This anthology of the Turkish rites and ceremonies of the pilgrimage to Mecca includes details on the customs, religious beliefs and practices, mores, and science of the Turkish people. It provides descriptions of important architectural and archaeological sites within Mecca, as well as the history and physical appearance of the Ka'abah (the Black Stone), a Muslim object of reverence, and Mount Agri (Ararat), the biblical summit on which Noah's Ark rested after the great flood.
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Louis Gonse (French, 1846–1921)
L'art japonais, Paris, 1883
2792-904
As one of the first major European reference books on Japanese art, this work is equally important to promulgating the art history of Japan as it is to understanding the phenomenon of Japonisme and its development in nineteenth-century European art.
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Belsazar Hacquet (German, 1739–1815)
L'Illyrie et la Dalmatie, ou Moeurs, usages, et costumes de leurs habitans et de ceux des contrées voisines, Paris, 1815
2783-803
This French translation by Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton from the original German includes thirty-two hand-colored lithographs to illustrate Hacquet's ethnographic observations of inhabitants of the Balkan Peninsula.
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Hosoe Eikō (Japanese, b. 1933)
Ōno Kazuo, Tokyo, 1997
2793-834
This photobook resulted from the meeting of three Japanese legends: photographer Hosoe Eikō, Butoh dance cofounder Ōno Kazuo, and designer and artist Tadanoori Yokoo .
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Kinoshita Shūichirō (Japanese, 1896–1991) and David Burliuk (Russian, 1882–1967)
Miraiha to wa? Kotaeru, Was ist der Futurismus? Antwort, Tokyo, 1923
2787-031
This little-known chapter in the history of the international avant-garde developed as a collaboration between Kinoshita, a prominent artist in the Japanese Futurist movement, and Burliuk, a gifted Russian Futurist poet and painter who worked in Japan until 1922, when he left for the United States. Acquired with the support of the Research Library Council.
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Jacques Philippe Laugier de Tassy (French? n.d.)
Histoire du royaume d'Alger, Amsterdam, 1725
2784-620
Accompanied by an engraved city view and a map of Algeria, this comprehensive account of Algeria was written by a French naval officer who served at the French consulate at Algiers.
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Hans Leip (German, 1893–1983), ed.
Der Almanach der Götzenpauke, Hamburg, 1921
2789-467
With strong Expressionist graphics, this publication marked the Hamburg Artists' Festival, celebrated annually from 1914 through 1926. Acquired with the support of the Research Library Council.
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Nicolas de Nicolay (French, 1517–1583)
Le navigationi et viaggi, fatti nella Turchia, Venice, 1580
2789-858
The most complete edition of one of the earliest accurately illustrated works on the customs and dress of the inhabitants of the Ottoman Empire was compiled by Nicolay, geographer to the French embassy to Istanbul in 1551. Acquired with the support of the Research Library Council.
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Edward Pococke (British, 1604–1691)
Specimen historiae Arabum, sive Gregorii Abul Farajii Malatiensis, De origine & moribus Arabum succinta narratio, in linguam Latinum conversa..., Oxford, 1650
2783-804
This work for Arabic and Islamic studies in Europe laid the foundation for all subsequent studies of Arabic and Islam in the West.
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Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874–)
La Tradición del hombre abstracto (Doctrina constructiva), Montevideo, 1938
2789-451
This first edition of Torres-García's major treatise is accompanied by an original ink drawing by the artist that embodies the theoretical principles presented.
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Gianfranco Gorgoni (Italian, b. 1941)
Photographs of earthworks, 1970s
2008.R.6
Produced by Italian photographer Gorgoni, the eleven vintage prints demonstrate the dynamic creativity of early earthwork artists Michael Heizer, Robert Smithson, and Walter de Maria. Gorgoni's prints are a unique blend of photodocumentation and artistry, both capturing and creatively framing the relationship of artist to his large-scale works as they develop in the landscape.
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Orientalist Photography Collection, 1843–1960, bulk 1843–1920
2008.R.3
In the late 19th century, when the Orient held a special allure for Western viewers, the region was increasingly open to travelers and traders. This collection includes more than 4,500 early photographic images of the Middle East and North Africa created by 164 different photographers and studios. Documentary, artistic, journalistic, and amateur views of Egypt, the Maghreb, and the Levant present the diverse cultures of Islam and the Holy Land, from Morocco in the west to Arabia and Syria in the east.
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