SJSU Library has just received in acquisitions this exhibition catalog:
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989.
I am taken with this title, not only for its expanse and extravagance--it is truly a lush monograph, but also with wondering how in the world all of the ideas packed into it will be expressed in a future bibliographic record. This is a stunning book. Just in leafing through it, I am experiencing the flow of ideas and images that knit this massive work together. I try to "librarianize" my skimming, try to pay attention to chapter headings, but instead lapse into rich browsing, the images placed so perfectly that sense making of this information is like breathing clean air. I would buy this book for the chronology alone, a twenty page illustrated timeline of American encounters with Asia from 1800-1989. Further skimming reveals notes on the artists in the exhibition and bibliographies of further reading on each one. Bibliographic crush!!
Images are online at:
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/on-view-now/third-mind
and any dear readers on the east coast, get thee to the Guggenheim by April 19th. You might even send me a postcard.
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A bit OT but SJSU got a shout out over on Millard Fillmore's Bathtub. Ed linked to World Images Database. I posted a link over to your page(s), but not to you blog(s). We haven't met, but I was a fixture in the Art History program for the past years.
When / If I'm settled in NYC, I'll start posting - blogging again.
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