Recommended Books/DVDs at (or coming soon to) Rasmuson Library



Anatomy for the artist; drawings and text.  Jeno Barscay.  NC760.B33 1967 OVRSZ  Level 6
Anatomy lessons from the great masters.  Robert Beverly Hale.  NC760.H27 2000
Art:21 Art in the 21st century.  DVDs  There are also books that go with the DVDs on reserve.
Art and laughter.  Sheri Klein.  N8212.K54  2007
Arteffects (practical art books).  Jean Green.  N7430.G677  1993
Art law conversations: a surprisingly readable guide for visual artists.  Elizabeth T. Russell  KF 390 A7 R877 2005
Art of the digital age.  Bruce Wands  N7433.8 W36 2007
The artist's body.  Themes and movements.  Tracey Warr.  2006
The artist's joke.  Documents in contemporary art.  Jennifer Higgie, ed. NX650.W58 A78 2007

Bill Viola:  the passing.  DVD.
Bill Viola:  the passions.  N6537.V56 A4 2003
A book of surrealist games.  Mel Gooding, ed. Compiled by Alastiar Brotchie.  NX456.5.S8 S88 1995

Conceptual art.  Themes and Movements.  Peter Osborne  N6494.C63 C587 2002 OVRSZ
Connecting the dots:  Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg project.  Heidelberg Project.  NX180.A77 C66 2007

Drawing lessons from the great masters.  Robert Beverly Hale.  NC765.H15 1989
Drawing from life:  the journal as art.  Jennifer New.  NC53.N49  2005
The drawings of Paul Cadmus.  Introduction by Guy Davenport.  NC139.C32 A2 1989

Electronic civil disobedience and other unpopular ideas.  Critical Art Ensemble. 1996
The electronic disturbance.  Critical Art Ensemble.  1994

Fred Wilson:  objects and installations. 1979-2000.  Maurice Berger.
From technological to virtual art.  Frank Popper  N7433.92.P67  2007
The future of the image.  Jacques Ranciere.  B 105.I47 R3613 2007

The gothic.  Documents in contemporary art.  Gilda Williams, ed. NX650.H67 G68 2007
Graffiti women:  street art from five continents.  Nicholas Ganz.  ND2590.G348  2006

The illustrator's bible.  The complete sourcebook of tips, tricks and time-saving techniques in oil, alkyd, acrylic, gouache, casein,  watercolor, dyes, inks, airbrush, scratchboard, pastel, colored pencil, and mixed media ..Rob Howard.  N7430.H78 1992

The lectures of Robert Beverly Hale.  DVDs.
Leonardo's machines: da Vinci's inventions revealed.  Domenico Laurenza.

Master class in figure drawing.  Robert Beverly Hale.  NC765.H24  1991  Level 6
Masterful color:  vibrant colored pencil paintings layer by layer.  Arlene Steinberg.
Mark Lombardi global networks.  Independent Curators International. NC139.L576 A4 2003
Mining the museum: an installation by Fred Wilson.  Lisa G. Corrin
The museum as muse:  artists reflect.  N 72 A77 M37 1999

The pastel book.  Bill Creevy.
Processing: a programming handbook for virtual designers and artists.   Casey Reas, Ben Fry.  QA76.6.R4138  2007

Rendering in pen and ink:  the classic book on pen and ink techniques...Arthur Guptill  NC 905 G8 1976 OVSZ

Saul Steinberg:  illuminations.  Joel Smith; introduction by charles Simic.  N6537.7 A4 2006 OVRSZ
Sensorium:  embodied experience, technology and contemporary art.  Caroline A. Jones, ed.

Visual shock:  a history of art controversies in American culture.  Michael Kammen  N72.S6 K225 2006
Vitamin D:  new perspectives in drawing.  Emma Dexter.  NC95.V58 2005