(i) General Topics (unmarked unless noted)
Contents:
64. *10e Biennale de Paris, 1977 (exh.cat.: Kiefer etc.) [inscribed: E Gower 77]
Inscribed on flyleaf: “E.Gower 77”; extensive catalogue - includes Kiefer, Mike Parr etc.; intact, except for page noted below;
- p.223/24 torn out
65. 20th-century American Art: Highlights of the Permanent Collection. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1981
66. *AIGA Graphic Design USA: 1 (The Annual of the American Institute of Graphic Arts) [n.d.]
[Prahran CAE lib.copy]; intact apart from pages noted below
- pp.287-90: clipped/removed
67. *The Airbrush Book: art, history & technique, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1980 (text by Seng-Gye Tombs Curtis & Christopher Hunt).
[ex Brunswick public library copy (withdrawn)];
pages removed/clipped as noted below
- pp.47-64 removed (from “Gallery” section of colour plates)
- pp.95-100 removed (from ch.5: “Simple Techniques”)
- pp.103-4 missing (from ch.6: “Advanced Techniques”)
- p.135/36: part of page clipped
68. American Mastery: Eight Artists in the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art [n.d.] (1987?) (Calder, Stuart Davis etc.)
- small booklet; Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis etc.; back cover missing, otherwise intact
69. Art et Publicité. Paris: Pompidou Centre, 1990
Colour booklet to accompany exh. at Pompidou 1 Nov.1990-25 Feb.1991
70. Blickfelder 81: Malerei in Frankreich heute / Champs visuel 81: Peinture en France aujourd’hui. Bielefeld & Mannheim, 1981 (exh.cat.).
[ex Prahran CAE lib.copy (withdrawn)]
71. *Deken, Joseph. Computer Images: State of the Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 1983.
Signed on flyleaf: HARKLEY;
- p.53: image includes additional cut-out sections taped in
- p.57/58: part of image clipped
- pp/70/71: marker inserted
- p.75/76: part of page clipped, and p.76 tagged (city image)
- pp.80/81: marker inserted
- pp.90/91: marker inserted (domino/microchip images)
- pp.92/93: marker inserted (further computer imagery)
- pp.102/103: marker inserted (renderings of city buildings by Michael Collery)
- p.161 tagged (images of streets with traffic)
72. *Dokumenta 6 Kassel: Malerei Plastik Perfomance. Kassel, 1977 (Band 1).
323 pp.; inscribed on p.1: “E.Gower 77”; cat.includes Bacon, Johns, Close, Morley etc.
- p.123/24 removed
73. *Ex Libris 6 – Constructivism and Futurism: Russian & other. New York: Ex Libris, 1977.
inscribed on flyleaf: “HA 77”; detailed, illustrated rare book catalogue (art/architecture)
- cat.nos.44ff.: marked
- cat.nos.237ff.: marked
74. Forman, Bedrich. Indonesian Batik & Ikat. London: Hamlyn, 1988.
75. * Franke, Herbert. Computer Graphics – Computer Art. [1971] rev.edn., Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1985.
[ex VCA lib. copy]; various pages tagged or marked as noted below:
- p.35 tagged (linear pattern made up of curves)
- p.58: NB computer image of elephant altered by Arkley with added black fibre-tipped pen and circular blue “eyes” (and p.59, opposite, tagged)
- p.73: digitally altered colour photo tagged
- p.77: computer patterns: page tagged
- pp.102/103 marked: line-drawings of figures in aeroplanes (also tagged p.103)
- p.104 tagged: digitally altered line-drawing of human head
76. German Expressionism. Sydney: Art Gallery of NSW Education Services, [n.d.] (c.1990?)
Brochure with loose sheets in folder
77. * Greenberg, David (& others). Big Art: Megamurals and Supergraphics. Philadelphia: Running Press, 1977.
Inscribed on title page: “Elizabeth Gower”; unmarked but of obvious interest to Arkley
78. Icons of the Russian Church. Melbourne: University Gallery, 1988. (exh.cat., cur.M.Riddle et al.)
Exhibition catalogue by Margaret Riddle & others; includes, loose at back, page with medieval manuscript illustrations
79. * Kozloff, Max (intro.). Real Faces: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1988
Pamphlet: photos by Bill Burke etc.; the text is underlined extensively in black pen (not by Arkley?)
80. * Legeza, Laszlo. Tao Magic: The Chinese Art of the Occult. New York: Pantheon Books, 1975.
Intact but with pencil markings in text as noted:
- p.27: comments on Chinese colour symbolism underlined in pencil
- p.29: works “vortex” and “spiral” circled in pencil
81. MA: Space-Time in Japan. Cooper-Hewitt Museum, n.d. [c.1978?] (texts by Shuzio Takiguchi et al.)
Exhibition catalogue;
82. Molnar, George, Statues, Plymouth: The Bowering Press, 1954.
Second-hand copy; cartoons of sculptures
83. * Moore, David. Melanesian Art in the Australian Museum. Sydney: Aust.Museum, 1968.
Several pages clipped or torn out, and doodles added on p.31 (see below);
- p.3/4 removed
- pp.9-14 removed
- p.15/16 clipped
- p.17/18 removed
- p.19/20 clipped
- p.23/24 clipped
- p.31: NB doodles added by Arkley in black fibre-tipped pen (2 separate images)
- p.33/34 removed
- p.35/36: two images clipped
- p.37/38: image clipped (and traces of black texta doodle p.38)
- pp.39-42 removed
- p.43/44: clipped
- p.51/52: clipped
- p.59/60: two images clipped
84. * New Art at the Tate Gallery 1983, London: Tate, 1983 (text by Michael Compton).
Exhibition catalogue; inscribed on flyleaf: “H.ARKLEY”; - p.10/11: most of page removed
85. * Open University. The Emerging of Modern Art in the Early Twentieth Century (Open University Arts booklet, unit 6; prepared by Aaron Scharf) 1976
Booklet; price of 2.60 on flyleaf (£?); no markings but page removed:
- p.21/22 torn out (Magritte image p.21) #
86. * Paris New York. Paris: Pompidou Centre, 1977.
Large-format brochure to accompany exh.; notes by Daniel Abadie et al; seen by Arkley in Paris in 1977?
- image clipped from sec.26/27 (Fluxus/Pop = ?)
87. * Parola, Rene. Optical Art: Theory and Practice. New York: Reinhold Book Co., 1969.
[ex Camberwell-Waverley library copy (cancelled)]; inscribed on flyleaf: “Howard Arkley. 1992. Please Return”; examples by Riley, Vasarely etc.; NB esp.ch.5: “Color in Op” (pp.113ff.); also some loose photocopied optical patterns inserted passim; various pages here clipped or altered, as noted below - p.44: black and white image altered by pasted-in woven pattern from another source #
- p.54: pattern from another source pasted below colour plate
- p.55: text asterisked in pencil (reference to 1953 Scientific American article on moiré patterning) – above Fig.3-28: black and white moiré pattern
- p.81/82: image clipped
- p.125: reproduction of 1963 painting by William Fangor with caption noting “blurred edges heighten the contrast”
88. * Photorealism: Paintings, Sculpture and Prints from the Ludwig Collection and others. London: Serpentine Gallery, 1973.
- Exhibition catalogue (intro.Lawrence Alloway). Inscribed on flyleaf: “Gower”. Richard McLean’s Rustler Charger (1971) on cover
89.* Prints. Art Gallery of Ontario, 1975.
Exhibition catalogue, 18 Dec.1975-18 Jan.1976.; inscribed on flyleaf: “H.Arkley.77”
90. * Proulx, Michel. Electric Art. Toronto: Oxford UP, 1977.
Short pictorial survey of neon art; well-used book, several pages tagged (see details below)
- Melbourne Skipping Girl neon sign photo (clipping) inserted loose at front
- no.28 tagged (St Louis dry cleaner’s sign)
- nos.47-48 tagged (roses from flower shops in Calgary and Chicago)
- no.52 tagged (cowboy from Las Vegas casino)
91. * Sculpture of Black Africa: the Paul Tishman Collection. [Los Angeles, 1968/International Exhibitions Foundation, 1970-71]
[ex Prahran CAE library copy; title page removed]; various ills. marked with purple post-it stickers:
- p.36 tagged (opposite Senufo figure p.37)
- p.40 tagged
- p.42 tagged
- p.47 tagged (mask image)
- p.80 tagged (opposite Yoruba mask p.81)
- p.85 tagged (Ibo Dance crest: details p.86)
- p.92 tagged (opposite Tikar/Bangwa figure p.93)
- p.102 tagged
- p.136 tagged (opposite Luba figure p.137)
92. * Sextant: Six artistes suédois contemporains. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1981.
[ex Prahran CAE library copy (withdrawn)];
- p.79: late 1970s diagrammatic drawings by Kjell Ohlin clipped {JG: tried to compare copy supposedly in Monash Uni.library – missing}
93. * Smithson, Alison & Peter. The Heroic Period of Modern Architecture. London: Thames & Hudson, 1981.
Bought at Cosmos $14.95 (unclear when purchased); the book is intact, but several pages are tagged: - pp.19 (Reitveld house 1923, B&W) and 71 (van Doesburg: colour) tagged
94. The Smorgon Family Collection of Contemporary American Art. Javan Corporation [USA?], 1985.
Catalogue (Basquiat etc) {NB not held in other Victorian libraries, apparently}
95. * Spring, Christopher. African Textiles. London: Bracken Books, 1989.
Large-format, mostly plates - p.7: clipped (part of blue/black Nigerian cloth pattern)
96. * Staccioli, Sara (ed.), The Borghese Museum, Rome: Guide Arno e Tevere, 1982.
97. * Systems. London: Arts Council, 1972
Exhibition catalogue; intro.text by Stephen Bann. Original cover missing.
p.17: a few pencil marks (presumably a response to Richard Allen images reproduced pp.16-17)
98. Tate Gallery Liverpool: Events Summer 1986 [Steven Campbell & others].
99. Taubes, Frederic. Pen and ink drawing [1962]. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978.
100. * Vorticism and its allies. London: Arts Council, 1974.
Exhibition catalogue (Hayward Gallery, London, 27 March-2 June 1974). Inscribed on flyleaf: “Arkley 77”; paint-spattered cover.
- Box: MS F BOX 4437-4441 (Mixed materials)
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