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Terri,

 

Looks good, but you should know, as should everyone, that Janson is not the author of the 7^th edition of “Janson.”   It misrepresents itself, and would be a HUGE mistake, in my opinion, to include it.  In my original posting I referenced my review article of it.  I strongly suggest you read that article before you decide to include the Janson.

 

I see that my reference has been removed from your summary email, so I’m reinstating it:    

 

Jeffrey Weidman,  “Many Are Culled But Few Are Chosen: Janson’s History of Art, Its Reception, Emulators, Legacy, and Current Demise, Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Volume 38, Number 2, January 2007, pp. 85-107.

 

If MSU lacks this journal, you can easily get the article via ILL.

 

Jeffrey

 

 

Jeffrey Weidman, Ph.D.

Senior Librarian, Public Services & Collection Development

Spencer Art Reference Library

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

4525 Oak Street

Kansas City, KS  64111

Tel: 816-751-1215

FAX: 816-751-0498

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Some of you asked that I compile a list of all responses for my original query (see below) and publish the complete list.  Thankfully, my institution has the online version of the Grove Dictionary of Art, a resource many of you mentioned.  With all these wonderful suggestions, I have to think a bit more about the 5 that would best meet the needs of both MSU students going abroad and native Dubai and regional students attending the MSU program.

 

Thanks again for all of your recommendations!

 

-Author: Janson, H. W. (Horst Woldemar), 1913-1982

Title: Janson's history of art : the western tradition / Penelope J.E.

Davies ... [et al.].

Published: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2007.

Edition: 7th ed.

 

Author: Stokstad, Marilyn, 1929-

Title: Art history / Marilyn Stokstad in collaboration with David Cateforis.

Published: Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2005.

Edition: Rev. 2nd ed.

 

Title: Architecture, from prehistory to postmodernity / Marvin Trachtenberg, Isabelle Hyman.

Published: New York : H.N. Abrams, c2002.

Edition: 2nd ed.

 

Title: The Phaidon atlas of contemporary world architecture.

Published: London ; New York : Phaidon, 2004.

Edition: Comprehensive ed.

 

Title: Meggs' history of graphic design / Philip B. Meggs, Alston W.

Purvis.

Published: Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley & Sons, c2006.

Edition: 4th ed.

 

Author: Byars, Mel.

Title: The design encyclopedia / Mel Byars ; foreword by Terence Riley.

Published: London : L.King ; New York : Museum of Modern Art, 2004.

Edition: [New ed.]

 

 

-a selection from the "second tier"

of survey textbooks, as well as Gardner's-- maybe including Hartt's Italian Renaissance Trachtenberg's architecture survey Sherman Lee's History of Far Eastern Art ?? the modern/contemporary art survey

 

 

 

-Title:             30,000 years of art : the story of human creativity across

                      time and space.

Publisher:         London ; New York : Phaidon, 2007.

 

-1)Gombrich’s Story of Art.  Also, 2) Julian Bell’s Mirror of the World: A New History of Art (Thames & Hudson, 2007) is a superb World history of art, and has received excellent reviews, most recently in TLS, I believe.

 

Then, 3) Benedetti, Joan M. (Editor), et al.  Art Museum Libraries and Librarianship (Scarecrow and ARLIS/NA, 2007).

Then, 4) Marmor, Max, Alex Ross, et al.  Guide to the Literature of Art History 2 (Chicago: American Library Association, 2005).

 

As for the fifth title, I’m suggesting a just-published survey that I have not read or used extensively yet, but which I know has been eagerly anticipated and which is already being used as a textbook.  I am offering it as a fifth possibility, as MSU is an American university:

 

Miller, Angela L., Janet C. Berlo, Bryan J. Wolf, and Jennifer L. Roberts, with Contributions by Margaretta M. Lovell and David Lubin.  American

                Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity (Upper Saddle River: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008.

 

-Title: Art in theory, 1648-1815 : an anthology of changing ideas / edited by Charles Harrison, Paul Wood, and Jason Gaiger.
Imprint: Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2000.
Physical Description: xxii, 1220 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [1180]-1193) and index.
 
Title: Art in theory, 1815-1900 : an anthology of changing ideas / edited by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood with Jason Gaiger.
Imprint: Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 1998.
Physical Description: xx, 1097 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
 
Title: Art in theory, 1900-2000 : an anthology of changing ideas / edited by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Imprint: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003.
Physical Description: xxvii, 1258 p. ; 26 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [1188]-1211) and index.

For the last two, any of the Phaidon Art & Ideas or Oxford History of Art series.

 

-Fleming's Arts & Ideas

 

-one general survey, then four other books on regional art and architecture, to help the students appreciate local culture

 

-the Time Saver Standards series

 

-I'd suggest Phaidon Design Classics. London and NY: Phaidon, 2006.

 

-the latest ed. of Sir Banister Fletcher’s a history of architecture as well as the Phaidon atlas of contemporary world architecture.  And with the packaging design degree in mind, maybe some kind of design yearbook such as the Red Dot Design Yearbook?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My institution is establishing a campus in Dubai.  There will be a

> library presence, including a small print collection.  Bibliographers

> have been asked to supply titles of 5 books that would best represent

> their disciplines.  Here are the criteria:

> 

> 

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> 1)Current imprints only

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> 2)English language

> 

> 3)Appeals to "a very general population of university students who

> have general studies needs"

> 

> 

> 

> These can be reference books, but they must fit the criteria and we

> must not have them online.  My first thought was something along the

> lines of the current Gardner's Art Through the Ages or another survey

> book, but beyond that my mind goes blank.  I would welcome your

> suggestions.  The only programs in Dubai that might possibly have a

> connection to art/art history are packaging design and construction

> management.  There are no art/art history courses planned at present, just general "humanities"

> type classes.

 

Terrie L. Wilson

Art Librarian

Michigan State University

Fine Arts Library

100 Library        

East Lansing, MI  48824

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