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New library acquisitions: Winter 2024

28 January 2025

Cover of the books Great Women Sculptors and Emii Alrai: The Courtship of Giants.

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Cover of the book Im Anfang war der Blick.

Cover of the book Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes.

Cover of the book Phyllida Barlow: Sculpture 1963-2023.

Cover of the book Alison Wilding: On Paper.

Cover of the book Katrina Palmer: The Touch Report

Cover of the book Henry Moore and Czechoslovak Art after 1945.

Cover of the book Henry Moore: Shadows on the Wall.

Cover of the book Great Women Sculptors.

Cover of the book Emii Alrai: The Courtship of Giants.

Cover of the book Hew Locke: what have we here?

Cover of the book Michael Sandle: Works on Paper.

Cover of the book Glenn Ligon: Distinguishing Piss from Rain - Writings and Interviews.

Cover of the book Moholy Nagy in Britain: 1935-1937.

Cover of the book Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and technology (E.A.T.).

Cover of the book Artists' Magazines and Publications after Marcel Duchamp.

Cover of the book Battleground: African American Art 1985-2015.

Cover of the book Casting a New Light: Plaster Casts & Cast Collections in Europe and Beyond.

Cover of the book Chana Orloff: Sculpter l'époque.

Cover of the book Eduardo Paolozzi: Z.E.E.P. - Zero Energy Experiment Pile.

Cover of the book Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body.

Cover of the book Iconoclasm: Rejecting the Past.

Cover of the book Islands and Contemporary Art.

Cover of the book Leela Mukherjee: A Guileless Modernist.

Cover of the book Lines of Abstraction: Beyond Form.

Cover of the book Nationalism, Medievalism and the study of Sculpture: Prior and Gardner's Account Reassessed.

Cover of the book Now We Have Seen: Women and Art in 1970s Italy.

Cover of the book Sigmund Freud's Desk: An Anecdoted Guide.

Cover of the book Surrealism : Eileen Agar, Anthony Barnshaw, Paul Hammond, Peter Wood, Patrick Hughes, Conroy Maddox, John W. Welson.

Cover of the book Mark Polizzotti: Why Surrealism Matters.

Cover of the book Women & Freud: Patients, Pioneers, Artists.

Cover of the book Penelope Slinger: 50% The Visible Woman.

Cover of the book Dominique White: Dead Weight.

Cover of the book The Surreal Body: Fetish and Fashion.

Over recent months we have added new books and catalogues on British artists, many of them written by curators, academics, artists and fellows who have developed and used our library and archives over the years.

Visit the library to find new publications on Alison Wilding, Henry Moore, Eduardo Paolozzi, Michael Sandle, Jacqueline Poncelet, Hew Locke, Ryan Gander, Simon Starling, Magdalene Odundo, Katrina Palmer, Tony Cragg, Alfred Gruber and Jacqueline Stieger. We are particularly pleased to add catalogues from exhibitions by Dominique White and Emii Alrai whose work will feature in the forthcoming exhibition at the Institute, Fragment and Form.

We are delighted to add to the library a new survey of women sculptors published by Phaidon. Great ~~Women~~ Sculptors brings together some of the many female artists who have shaped the field of sculpture. The book is a wonderful resource to explore sculptors of the past, present and future, including many artists we have worked with at the Institute.

If you are interested in exploring our collections, spending time using the library and archive to develop your research project or artistic practice, you might be interested in applying for a fellowship. The call for applications is now live, the deadline is 10 March. The library and archive are exceptional resources for exploring sculpture and our partnership with Leeds Art Gallery provides access to one of the strongest collections of British sculpture in the country.