Visual Arts Library Picture & Periodicals Collections

SVA Writing Program Contest Award Ceremony

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In Today’s Mail — April 11, 2013

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Periodicals/Reference Librarian

Focused on architecture and design, we have Volume starting with n. 28 (2011). In today’s mail is no. 35. This is one of those titles that I wish we would have started from the beginning (2005). It’s academically heady, but also attractive and fun. Actually, I hope to go after all of the back issues at some point.

Each iteration has a theme. This one is (from the table of contents page):

Volume 35 (Spring 2013) Front Cover

Simon Park’s Blog: Exploring the Invisible

Text made solely from living bacteria!!!

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Anatomy – Nervous System

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Periodicals/Reference Librarian

The Anatomy folders contain approximately seven hundred images and have the following arrangement: Anatomy, Anatomy – Animals, Anatomy – Eyes, Anatomy -Hands, and Anatomy – Nervous System. Like the other Anatomy categories, Anatomy – Nervous System consists of photographs of both the interior and exterior, microscopic views, medical illustrations, and creative (non-technical) illustrations.

© 1947, 1981, 1986 Anatomical Chart Company. Chicago, Illinois. Anatomical Illustration by Peter Bachin.

Dissected Neurons. Life Oct. 22, 1971. “Subtle beauties, baffling complexities.”

At the Synapse, a sudden chemical invasion. Life Oct. 22, 1971. "This painting, which is based on the actual specimen..." depicts how a signal gets from one neuron to another. "Here an axon (the big horizontal shape) forms two synapses, the first with a dendrite offshoot (vertical trunk on the left) and the other with the dendrite itself (right)."

[At the Synapse, a sudden chemical invasion] ”This painting, which is based on the actual specimen…depicts how a signal gets from one neuron to another. Here an axon (the big horizontal shape) forms two synapses, the first with a dendrite offshoot (vertical trunk on the left) and the other with the dendrite itself (right).” Life. October 22, 1971.

[Succor and support from the gluey glia] Glia Cells. "Greek word for glue, the sticky glia's chief function seems to be to service neurons." Life. Oct. 22, 1971.

[Succor and support from the gluey glia] Glia Cells. “Aptly named for the Greek word for glue, the sticky glia’s chief function seems to be to service neurons.” Life. Oct. 22, 1971.

Man Holding Brain

“The interior view of the base of the skull (seen though a wide-angel lens) shows the openings in the bone for the spinal cord and the two jugular veins (bottom), and the two optic nerves (center). Life. Oct. 1, 1971.

© 1983, 1986 Anatomical Chart Co., Chicago, IL.. Illustrated by Ernest W. Beck, medical illustrator, in consultation with Harry Monsen, Ph.D., Professor of Anatomy, College of Medicine, University of Illinois.

Thigh Nerves (left) Spinal Cord (right). Life Oct. 1, 1971.

© 1991 Anatomical Chart Co., Skokie, IL. Art Direction by Christine D. Young and Medical Illustrations by Carl Clingman, in consultation with Kevin E. McKenna, Ph.D., Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois.

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Animals – Assorted

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Periodicals/Reference Librarian

Spread throughout three folders are the subcategories Animals – Assorted (A-G), (H-N), and (O-Z). These folders are home to about 70 images of animals that do not fall into any of the Picture Collection’s current animal subcategories (there are over 60 subcategories of Animals with thousand of pictures, from Apes and Monkeys to Zebras). Maybe if some of these adorable little creatures find a few more like themselves, they too will have the distinction of having their own folder. I would love to see a folder full of proud platypuses.

Platypus

Sloth

Mountain Tapir

Galagos, commonly known as ‘Bush Babies’ and also called ‘Nagapies’–meaning “Little night monkeys” in Afrikaans

Making a rare appearance above ground, a common European mole prepares to burrow its way back into the security of a subsurface tunnel, using paddle-like appendages to scrape soil and push it rearward or up.

Llama

National Geographic, Volume 219, Issue Number 05, May 2011.
A Kinkajou’s pollen-dusted cheek tells of a late-night nectar binge in an Ochroma, or balsa, tree.

Aardvark

Badger

Anteater

Anteater

National Geographic, September 2005.
Russian Desman

Albino Animals

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Faculty Library Orientation (Food – Desserts & Sweets)

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Periodicals/Reference Librarian

Faculty Library Orientation
Tuesday, April 2, 11am
Visual Arts Library, 380 Second Avenue, 2nd floor

All SVA faculty members are invited to a brief tutorial on some of the Visual Arts Library’s most powerful digital tools, and a short tour showcasing its prized print and multimedia collections. The orientation should last no more than an hour. Refreshments will be served. We look forward to meeting you.

For more information, contact the library at reference@sva.edu.
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As invocation of, but not a promise as to the quantity, quality or types of refreshments that will be served at the Faculty Library Orientation, please enjoy the following pictures from the Picture Collection’s Food – Desserts & Sweets folder:

Individual Strawberry Jam Cakes. Martha Stewart Living, November 2003

Sealtest Candied Apple Ice Cream. 1956

December 1960. Tutti-Frutti Date Pudding!

McCall’s, September 1973

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In Today’s Mail — March 26, 2013

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Periodicals/Reference Librarian

The Visual Arts Library is missing Afterall no. 2. Could anybody out there fill such a void? Otherwise, we have every issue published starting with no. 1 in 1999, and ending, as of this post, with no. 32 (Spring 2013) which arrived in today’s mail.

Afterall, Spring 2013 (Cover)

That is some exceedingly dreamy cotton and polyester.

From the inside cover:

These large editorial meetings create the context (as mentioned in the subtitle: “A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry”) and help define the lanes of enquiry that end up shaping the content of each issue. The writing is highly informed and critically potent while still maintaining a relatively high level of accessibly.

It is text heavy, but also includes nice reproductions of the work it references:

Poem by Saloua Raouda. 1963-5, wood, 33x17x7.5 cm.

May your work and curiosities bring you into further contact with this publication.

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Colors

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Periodicals/Reference Librarian

You may be inclined to disregard The Picture Collection’s Colors folder (pictures of colors?) but if you take the time to delve, you will find a resource that could be of great help to artists seeking inspiration and reference, as well as aid in color theory and color composition. Inside this 79-image folder you will not only find paint swabs and color charts, but also images that show the relation of color through photography, advertisements, and commercial sales. This folder can help an artist choose their pallet for a project. Users can scan hues that they are interested in utilizing and drop them in Photoshop for replication, or color copy selections and concoct a collage physically. A great help for advertising and graphic design students–or really anyone interested in…color…the Colors folder is worth checking out.