ART BOOK NEWS ANNUAL
VOLUME 4: 2008
Book News Inc. 5739 NE Sumner Street Portland, OR 97218
Selections from Reference & Research Book News and SciTech Book News
Art Book News Annual is for artists, architects, designers, photographers, art historians, educators, museum professionals—and librarians in these fields. Like its parent publications, Art Book News Annual presents books from several hundred publishers, arranged by subject, with thoughtfully prepared annotations.
Please note that entries appear as they were originally published in the previous year's two Book News quarterlies; readers need to verify current price & availability by contacting publishers or book vendors. This outline of the Library of Congress subject classification system is a guide to contents. A B C D-F G H J K L M N
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General Works (includes museum studies) Philosophy. Religion. Psychology. (includes aesthetics) Archaeology History (by country; includes arts & culture) Geography. Anthropology Social Sciences (includes media & gender studies) Political Science Law Education Music Visual Arts Exhibitions History of art Technique, composition, style Art criticism Portraits Conservation Economics of art Art & the state. Public art Architecture
NB NC ND NE NK NX
Sculpture Drawing. Design. Illustration. Painting Print Media Decorative & applied arts Arts in general (works dealing with two or more fine arts media) P Language & Literature (includes film) Q Science R Medicine S Agriculture T Technology (includes digital design) TH Architectural engineering TR Photography TT Crafts TS Manufactures (metalworking, jewelry, textiles) U-V Military & naval science Z Bibliography
Entries include the following data: Library of Congress classification, LCCN, ISBN, title, author (often "Title main entry" to indicate collective authorship), series, publisher, copyright date, pagination, price, and (pa) for paperback binding (otherwise assume hardbound). Reviews note lack of subject index or bibliography (assume present if not noted). Size is indicated if over 11 inches tall.
Published since 1976 and 1986, SciTech Book News and Reference & Research Book News annotate high-level books for librarians, academics, and professionals in the sciences, social sciences, & humanities. The two quarterlies appear in print, and their contents are licensed to Bowker's Books in Print with Reviews, Baker & Taylor's Title Source, ProQuest, EBSCO, Syndetics Solutions, Powells.com, Thomson/Gale, and BookNews Online. Art Book News Annual is published each year in February. Publisher: Fred Gullette Editors: Jean Brodahl, Jane Erskine, and Shannon Hendrickson
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MUSEUM STUDIES See also pages 30 & 41 for more on museums, galleries, & exhibitions
Welcome to the fourth issue of Art Book News Annual, a bibliography of scholarly books for artists, architects, designers, photographers, art historians, archaeologists, educators, museum professionals, librarians, and booksellers.
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978-1-84217-235-3
Beyond pilgrim souvenirs and secular badges; essays in honour of Brian Spencer. Title main entry. Ed. by Sarah Blick. Oxbow Books, ©2007 200 p. $80.00 A former Keeper of the Museum of London, Spencer