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New library acquisitions: Winter 2023

30 January 2024

Covers of the books 'Doris Salcedo' and 'Parviz Tanavoli : poets, locks, cages' side by side.

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Cover of the book 'James Maskrey : histories 7-31 October 2015', showing four bwonish glass jars and bottles. From left to right, their labels read:

Cover of the book 'Ruth Asawa : through line', with a black background, flowing lines made from small blue triangles, and yellow text on top.

Cover of the book 'Changing Places', with white text on a black background, which has the faint white outline of a building.

Cover of the book 'Doris Salcedo', showing many partially carved pieces of wood, stacked to appear like a forest.

Cover of the book 'Parviz Tanavoli : poets, locks, cages', showing a black and white portrait of the artist.

Cover of the book 'Gary Simmons : public enemy', showing a pari of white boxing gloves hung on a white wall.

Cover of the book 'Dean Kenning : vitalist kinetics', showing two small, colourful, robot-like constructions on a gallery floor.

Cover of the book 'Disability, public space performance and spectatorship : unconscious performers', showing two people in conversation using sign language.

Cover of the book 'Ezra Pound and the visual culture of modernism', with a red background and the silhouette of a bearded face.

Cover of the book 'Ghost-haunted land : contemporary art and post-Troubles Northern Ireland', showing a burn out car, still slowly burning, at night.

Cover of the book 'Morphic resonance : Hany Armanious', showing a wooden floor covered in detritus.

Cover of the book 'Jarman now', showing two side-by-side black and white photos, one of a person sculpting and the other of a flower.

Cover of the book 'Lauren Halsey : the roof garden commission', showing an outdoor space with a sculpture of a Sphinx and column in an ancient Egyptian style.

Cover of the book 'Leonor Antunes : the apparent length of a floor area', with a dark orange background and black text.

Cover of the book 'Monumental cares : sites of history and contemporary art', showing a person wearing red curled up in the lap of a large bronze statue of an older man.

Cover of the book 'On collecting artists' books : the Liliana Dematteis collection at the Thomas J. Watson Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art = La collezione Liliana Dematteis presso la Thomas J. Watson Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art'.

Cover of the book 'Charting space : the cartographies of conceptual art'.

Cover of the book 'Reve d'Egypte', showing two ancient, stone-carved torsos.

Plain printed cover of the publication 'Exhibition of paintings and sculpture by Charles Edward Sansbury at the Theatre Royal, Lincoln, February to March 1962'.

Cover of 'Sarah Sze : timelapse', featuring an abstract, collaged image.

Cover of 'Johann Gottfried Schadow : embracing forms', showing a marble statue of two women with an arm around each other.

Cover of the book 'Simone Leigh', shwing a carving of a head with afro hairstyle and no eyes.

Cover of the book 'Thinking is Making : objects in a space : the Mark Tanner sculpture award', showing a close-in photo of a green sculpture.

Cover of the book 'Virgins' by Jesse Darling, with blue text on a light purple background.

Cover of the book 'Yesterday’s papers : art and artists in Irish newspapers', with grey text on a dark green background.

Cover of the book 'Monika Sosnowska : models', showing a a bent and twisted piece of metal fencing.

With a focus on artists featured in our recent exhibition The Weight of Words: Sculpture and Poetry, new library acquisition over winter include catalogues on contemporary sculptors Doris Salcedo and Parviz Tanavoli.

We are delighted to see many new publications about female sculptors. As well as books and catalogues we also add dissertations which discuss works in the Leeds Museums and Galleries’ sculpture and archive collections of British sculpture to the library, including prize-winning essays.

Also included in the list of acquisitions below is a slim catalogue and hand-written invitation to an exhibition in 1962 of the work of Charles Sansbury (1916-1989). Ephemeral items such as this are hugely important for research around less well documented artists and this example is a most welcome gift.