Weekly Perusables: Joy in People

New to the library is Jeremy Deller’s exhibition catalog Joy in People, which covers his artistic debut in 1993 (a secret exhibition in his parents’ house while they were away on vacation), up to 2012. Deller is a contemporary British artist, who makes unconventional work that doesn’t fit in with the mainstream gallery scene. He didn’t go to art school, yet won the Turner Prize in 2004. You can read reviews of the Joy in People exhibit here: Telegraph, Domus, Abitare, and find the book on our New Books shelf for the next month. Cheerio!

NX 180 .A77 D45 2012 stacks

image source: D.A.P.

(blog entry by Jessica Sowls)

Weekly Perusables: elles@centrepompidou

In 2009 France's national museum of modern art, the Centre Pompidou, devoted the entire permanent collection to the work of women artists. Like the exhibition, the elles@centrepompidou catalog is arranged thematically with key female artists like Frida Kahlo, Sonia Delaunay, and Dorothea Tanning alongside major contemporary creators. More than 500 works by 200 artists are brought together under the themes Pioneer, Free Fire, Body Slogan, The Activist Body, A Room of One's Own, Wordworks, and Immaterials.

In addition to more than 300 pages of color images, elles@centrepompidou includes quotes from the artists and essays reflecting on gender and art. This book is an excellent collection of the multifaceted and diverse work by women that have, and continue to, create art history.


elles@centrepompidou: women artists in the collection of the Musée national d'art moderne, Centre de création industrielle
Centre Pompidou, 2009
N8354 .M8713 2009

(blog entry by Sara O'Sha)

Beautiful Losers

Following the recent screening of Beautiful Losers, Herron's Active Student Artists hosted a lecture by husband and wife artists, Chris Johanson and Jo Jackson. Here are some of the resources available at Herron Art Library to learn more about these artists, or others featured in the film.


Chris Johanson
by Chris Johnson with an essay by Aaron Rose
Deitch Projects, 2004
N6537.J56 A4 2004








Young, Sleek and Full of Hell: Ten Years of New York's Alleged Gallery
compiled by Aaron Rose
N6512 .A422 2005








Barry McGee T.H.R.
Damiani, 2010
N6537.M3339 A4 2010








Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing
Phaidon, 2005
NC95 .V58 2005

Mike Mills: Graphics Films
Alleged Press/Damiani, 2009
N6537.M558 A4 2009

Beautiful Losers (video recording)
Oscilloscope Pictures, 2009
N6536 .B43885 2009

Exit Through the Gift Shop (video recording)
Paranoid Pictures; a Banksy Film, 2010
N6797.B363 E958 2010

Images from Librarything.com

Weekly Perusables: Suprasensorial

Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color was published in conjunction with the MOCA exhibition showcasing the work of Latin American Artists Carlos Cruz-Diez, Lucio Fontana, Julio Le Parc, Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida, and Jesús Rafael Soto. Like the exhibition, the catalog is participatory in nature and includes translucent red and green acetate sheets which are required to read the essays. Using the overlays, the book's text is revealed in Spanish or English.

Watch a video of how it works on MOCA's blog or stop by the Herron Library to experience this unique read.

Suprasensorial : Experiments in Light, Color, and Space
Organized by Alma Ruiz
Special Collections N6494.L54 R85 2011

image from graphis.com

(blog entry by Sara O'Sha)