Published by Oxford University Press in 2010 Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion is a comprehensive ten volume set that explores dress and fashion globally and historically. The volumes are specific to geographic regions of the world,  Africa (1), Latin America and the Caribbean (2), The United States and Canada (3), South Asia and Southeast Asia (4), Central and Southwest Asia (5), East Asia (6), Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands (7), West Europe (8), East Europe, Russia, and the Caucasus (9).The final volume, GlobalPerspectives (10), explores other topics like “Iconic Figures in Western Fashion” (p.171) and “Museum Collections of Dress and Fashion” (p.295).

The encyclopedia is an excellent resource for those interested in the art and anthropology of costume, dress, and fashion spanning the globe.

Fashion: Critical and Primary Sources
DAAP Reference GT580.F37 2009 v.1-4

Published in 2009, Fashion: Critical and Primary Sources is a four volume set that contains over 100 essays and articles ordered chronologically. Volume one focuses on the time period Late Medieval to Renaissance, followed by volume two, the Eighteenth Century, volume three the Nineteenth Century, and finally volume four, the Twentieth Century to Today.

Both The Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion and Fashion: Critical and Primary Sources are for library use only and currently displayed with the DAAP new books. They will be placed in the reference collection on Friday, April 5th.

Construction worker installing a temporary ceiling above the DAAP Library reading room.

The DAAP Library is getting new clear story windows above the main reading room area (on the 5th-level) so we’re under construction…again. Next week – all new windows upstairs!

Recently added to the DAAP Library is the three volume set, Robert Motherwell, A Catalogue Raisonne, 1941-1991. Motherwell, an American Abstract Expressionists, produced a large body of work spanning a half century. This beautifully produced catalogue raisonne thoroughly documents 1,209 paintings on canvas and panel, 722 paintings on paper, and 829 collages. The first volume is made up of in-depth essays, references, and a detailed time line of Motherwell’s life.  Volume two covers paintings on canvas and panel, and volume three, collages and paintings on paper and paperboard.  All volumes contain richly detailed color plates which make this set valuable for research or pleasure.

Robert Motherwell, A Catalogue Raisonne, 1941-1991 is located in
DAAP oversize, N 6537.M67 A4 2012

On the main (500) level, there are two:

The Seminar Room at the DAAP Library

The Seminar Room: This instructional room seats 25-30 and is equipped with HD projection & a sound system, a new DVD/VHS player, and PC that you can use or disconnect to connect your own Mac or PC. The Seminar Room should be booked in advance by visiting or calling the main desk in the DAAP Library (556-1335).

The Eames Room at the DAAP Library

The Eames Room: As an homage to famed designers, Charles & Ray Eames, this room is fully appointed with Eames furniture manufactured by Herman Miller and Vitra. This room seats 12 and is also equipped with projection & sound, a DVD/VHS player, and a PC that you can use or disconnect to connect your own Mac or PC. You may reserve this room by signing up on the weekly sign-up sheet hanging outside the room itself, otherwise, it’s first come, first serve.

On the upper (600) level, there are two more rooms for your use:

The DAAPThinks Tank at the DAAP Library

The DAAPThinks Tank: This room is appointed with George Nelson chairs, an Eames table, and seats 12. You may reserve this room by signing up on the weekly sign-up sheet hanging outside the room itself, otherwise, it’s first come, first serve.

The Special Collection Reading Room at the DAAP Library

The Special Collections Reading Room: Like the DAAPThinks Tank, this room is appointed with George Nelson chairs, an Eames table, and seats 12. You may reserve this room by signing up on the weekly sign-up sheet hanging outside the room itself, otherwise, it’s first come, first serve.

Come visit DAAP Student, Betty Hensellek’s, exhibition on the postwar work of East German artist Hermann Glöckner at the library of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) at the University of Cincinnati.     It is a modest show of an original print (1963), two original printed posters (1971 and 1987), two hand printed catalogues (1969 and 1976), and an out of print book (1983) that will be on display until June of 2011.

Living in Dresden and its suburbs for 98 years, Hermann Glöckner witnessed the construction, struggle, demise, and reconstruction of a single nation. The work displayed in this exhibition highlights his artist      endeavors as a mature artist after previously experiencing two world wars, the chaotic Weimar Republic, the crimes of the Third Reich, and the division of Germany, which refashioned Dresden and Eastern Germany into the German Democratic Republic (Deutsche Demokratische Republik, DDR) as a communist Soviet Satellite State. Despite living through this turbulence and the shifting rigidity of censorship on culture in the DDR, Glöckner was able to find contentment and even optimism within the seemingly disconsolate political, economic, and social conditions.

Further reading:

1. Hermann Glöckner – Ein Patriarch der Moderne. Ed. by John Erpenbeck. Der Morgen. Berlin 1983
2. Die großen Dresdner. 26 Annäherungen. Ed. by Karin Nitzschke. Insel Verlag. Frankfurt am Main und Leipzig 1999
3. Günter Meissner: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon: die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker. K.G. Saur Verlag 1992. pp 198-201

Links:

1.  Hermann Glöckner in the German National Library catalogue

2. Exhibition at the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa)

3. Bibliography at the Smithsonian Institution