Carleton Library: Art History, English, Comp Lit, & Philosophy Blog

At CU Library

Oxford Art Online (found in the Reference & E-books section of the Art History Subject Guide) has been updated to include:

• 50 beautiful new images from across the globe depicting the materials and techniques that artists and craftspeople use to create objects.

• Collaboration with New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology to include Fashion; see biographies of designers & 75 stunning accompanying images

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The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), can now be accessed from the British Library online, via the library or the web.

The link can be found in the Databases by Title: E, or by searching ESTC in the library catalgoue.

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In Arts News:

Use Their Work Free? Some Artists Say No to Google (NYT)

You can read more about art and copyright at CU Library

Remix : making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy / Lawrence Lessig KF 3020 .L47 2008, 4th floor

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Elgin Marble Argument in a New Light [or, arguments in the museum world] (NYT)

You can read more about the Elgin Marbles at CU Library –

The Elgin marbles / B.F. Cook. NB 92.C6, 3rd floor

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Changing the Art on the White House Walls (Wall Street Journal)

Read more about American Art at CU Library

The Oxford dictionary of American art and artists / Ann Lee Morgan. N 6505 .M59 2007 2nd floor reference

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On Lit:

1984: The masterpiece that killed George Orwell (The Guardian)

Read 1984 from the CU Library

Nineteen eighty-four / George Orwell. PR 6029.R8 N5 2000 3rd floor

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Reading Dickens Four Ways: How ‘Little Dorrit’ fares in multiple text formats (The Chronicle Review)

You can read Little Dorrit 2 different ways at CU Library -

In Print Little Dorrit/Charles Dickens PR 4562.A1 1969, 3rd floor

Or Online Little Dorrit (electronic resource)

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