The Architecture, Design, and Art Library has added the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art’s Digital Rare Books Archive to its recommended databases lists for art and architecture. Browse or search this compendium of carefully curated digitized rare books about classical architecture and the allied arts, hosted by institutions around the world and assembled by the ICAA.
Books and Bytes is a series of talks by local authors who discuss the research, writing, and publication of their art, architecture, or design book. Our community of scholars is invited to participate in discussions afterward, so they may learn from one another’s experiences. Books and Bytes is co-sponsored by the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design and the University of Houston Libraries.
This conversation will take place on Wednesday, April 17th, at 6 pm in the Architecture, Art, and Design Library on the first floor of the College of Architecture Building.
Making a Scene! is the story of how visionary individuals created an international art world around photography. A classic Texas tale of seemingly quixotic ideas, audacious goals, oil booms and busts, generous philanthropists, southern sensibilities, grandiosity, and resolve, this book documents the social history of ‘who did what and when’ to create an international photography scene in such an unlikely place as Houston.
Tracy Xavia Karner is a visual sociologist who writes about photography in fine art venues and everyday life. She is the chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Houston where she teaches courses in Visual Sociology, Sociology of Art, and Visual Culture.
Four books on the works of Diego Rivera from the Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room are now on display in the William R. Jenkins Architecture, Design, and Art Library. The bound books and portfolios are liberally illustrated with reproductions of frescoes, watercolors, portraiture, as well as other genre and media. All were published in Mexico between 1934 and 1967. Rivera was arguably the most important figure in the Mexican mural movement. His style featured “a new iconography based on socialist ideas and exalted the indigenous and popular heritage in Mexican culture.” (O’Connor, F. (2003). Rivera (y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez), Diego. Grove Art Online.)
The works on view are:
12 reproductions in color of Mexican frescoes by Diego Rivera
Acuarelas, 1935-1945: Colección Frida Kahlo
El genial muralista mundialmente discutido maestro: Diego Rivera
Pop-Up Art Library + First Friday Art Tours
Come find us during First Friday Art Tours at Blaffer Art Museum. We’ll have a selection of books thematically related to the museum’s current exhibition available for check out. Lunch will be provided after the tour.
Date : Friday, April 5, 2024
Time: 12– 2 pm
Location: Blaffer Art Museum
About
Pop-Up’s
Since 2018, the William R. Jenkins Architecture, Design, and Art Library has been partnering with Blaffer Art Museum to host Pop-Up Libraries each semester. It’s a fun and engaging way to promote services that provide instant connection to the UH community. Each pop-up consists of curated art books thematically related to the museum’s current exhibitions.