LIBRARY
The following books and videos are shelved in the TIC TOC storage room, according to topic and chronology. Books which travel with specific rotating collections are not listed here.
I. General (in alphabetical order by title)
Art Gallery of Ontario, Selected Works
Art Treasures of the Louvre, René Huyghe
Art Treasures of the Metropolitan, Abram
“Don’t Eat the Pictures, Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art”, video
History of Art, H. W. Jensen
The History of Printmaking, Scholastic Voyages of Discovery
Katie’s Picture Show, James Mayhew
“Le Louvre: The Palace and Its Paintings”, CD Rom
The Louvre, paperback guide
The Metropolitan Museum Seminars in Art, John Candy, 12 vows., 2 sets
What Is a Painting?
Realism
Expressionism
Abstraction
Composition as Pattern
Composition as Structure
Composition as Expression
Fresco
Tempera & Oil
Water Color, Pastel, and Prints
The Artist as a Social Critic
The Artist as a Visionary
The Story of Art, Ernst Gombrich
The Tate Gallery: An Illustrated Companion
A Treasury of Art Masterpieces, Thomas Craven
“Wax Blood/Bronze Skin”, Modern Art Foundry, video describing the lost wax method
World’s Greatest Paintings, Standard Reference Works
II. European (in chronological order)
Cycladic Art, J. Wesley Litton
“Cathedral, The Story of Its Construction”, video by David Macaulay (on Architecture shelf)
The Lindisfarne Gospels, Janet Backhouse
Illuminated Manuscripts: The Book before Gutenberg, Giulia Bologna
Manuscript Painting at the Court of France: The Fourteenth Century, François Avril
The Très Riches Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry, Millard Meiss
Italian Renaissance Art, Frederick Hartt
Ghiberti, Ludwig Goldscheider
Leonardo da Vinci, Ludwig Goldscheider
Leonardo da Vinci, A. & M. Provensen
The Sculptures of Michelangelo, Ludwig Goldscheider
Northern Renaissance Art, James Snyder
Bosch, R. H. Marijnissen & P. Ruyffelaere
Rembrandt and His Art, Christopher Wright
Bernini’s Rome, Italian Baroque Terracottas from the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Turner, The History and Techniques of the Great Masters, William Hardy
Renoir, Sculptor, Paul Haesaerts
Auguste Rodin, Somerville Story
Vincent Van Gogh, Ludwig Goldscheider
Seeking the Floating World: The Japanese Spirit in Turn-of-the-Century French Art, Phyllis Floyd
Looking at Modern Painting, UCLA Department of Art
Picasso’s Picassos, David Douglas Duncan
The Graphic Work of M. C. Escher
III. American (in chronological order)
Edward Hicks, The Peaceable Kingdom (Let’s Get Lost in a Painting Series), Ernest Goldstein
The Birds of America, J. J. Audubon
The Hudson River and Its Painters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art video
Currier and Ives’ America, ed. by Colin Simkin
Beautiful Ambrotypes, Paul Cox
An Introduction to Civil War Civilians, Juanita Leisch
An Introduction to Civil War Photography, Ross J. Kelbaugh
Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey, Lillian Schlissel
The Art of the Old West, Gilcrease Institute Collection, Paul Rossi & David Hunt
Winslow Homer, The Gulf Stream (Let’s Get Lost in a Painting Series), Ernest Goldstein
A Treasury of American Prints, Thomas Craven
Grant Wood, An American Gothic (Let’s Get Lost in a Painting Series), Ernest Goldstein
Tar Beach, Faith Ringgold
IV. Canadian
Living Artic, Hunters of the Canadian North, Hugh Brody
Masks and Mask Makers, Hunt & Carlson (shelved with VI. African)
Nahecho Keh, Our Elders, Slavey Research Project
Our Arctic Project, Ruth Thomson & Neil Thomson
V. Latin American
Heirs of the Ancient Maya, A Portrait of the Lacandón Indians, Christine Price & Gertrude Duby Blom
Lost Kingdoms of the Maya, National Geographic video
The Maya World, Elizabeth P. Benson
Mysteries of the Ancient Americas, Readers Digest
The Mysterious Maya, George E. Stuart & Gene S. Stuart, National Geographic Society
Various National Geographic Magazines with articles on native Latin American peoples
VI. African
Africa Adorned, Angela Fisher (Moved to Group 3 of the African Art Collection)
African Sculpture, Ladislas Segy
Antique Works of Art from Benin, Augustus Pitt-Rivers
Ethnic Sculpture, British Museum, Malcomb McLeon & John Mack
Masks and Mask Makers, Kari Hunt & Bernice Wells Carlson
Masks of Black Africa, Ladislas Segy
Speaking with Beads, Zulu Arts from South Africa, Jean Morris & Eleanor Preston-White (Moved to Group 3 of the African Art Collection)
VII. Oriental
Arts of Asia, Special Chinese Issue, May-June 1989
Chanoyu: Japanese Tea Ceremony, Hayashiya Seizo, Japan Society
Living Buddhism, Andrew Powell & Graham Harrison
VIII. File Boxes
Files with additional information sheets, articles, pamplets, and brochures are kept on the following:
General Artists & Topics
African Art
Civil War, Northern/Southern Life, & Westward Expansion
Our Southern Neighbors
Native Americans & Canadians