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Art of the Baltics
The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, 1956-1986, which comprises nearly twenty thousand works, is part of the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
International Directory of Art Libraries
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The series IFLA Publications deals with many of the means through which libraries, information centres, and information professionals worldwide can formulate their goals, exert their influence as a group, protect their interests, and find solutions to global problems.
Acta Historiae Artium Balticae: 2
The second issue of the AHAB comes out under the title of Art and the Sacred. Ritual and religious objects, today classified as art, were once not claimed as such. Clearly, artworks that were intended for religious services were not created on purely aesthetic grounds; they were not intended to be art works per se. Nevertheless, academic practice and discourse has treated them primarily as art even though the word ‘sacred’ is placed before the word ‘art’ in these discourses. In today’s scholarship, the proliferation of anthropological research vividly indicates the tensions that exist between art and what is considered sacred.
Archiprix International
Accompanying DVD-ROM includes 60 minute documentary on the 2005 Archiprix International; project presentations from 2001, 2003 and 2005; exhibition panels and an off-line version of the web site.
Unfolding the Cards
These essays attempt to confront the effect of years of postmodernity and its promotion of individuality at the cost of solidarity and communal spirit. In the wake of this it suggests possible frameworks for an art study that restores a certain focus on communal spirit. It proposes, too, that art study’s fragile position in contemporary society is a consequence of over-commercialisation and its resultant surface values. Consumerist and corporate ideology encourage the consumer/individual’s self-realisation, seemingly divorced from communal interests. Within this isolation lies the potential breakdown of ethics. Therefore, I dream of a kinder society, i.e. one where we are engaged in real...
Romilda the Frog
This children's book was written and drawn by Munari in 1958. It tells the story of a frog named Romilda whose love of jumping from one thing to another leads her into a series of unlikely and entertaining adventures ...
