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Current Exhibits
Ornament and Color
2006 was the 150th anniversary of the publication of Owen Jones' The Grammar of Ornament. This bible of ornament of all known styles and ages became the chief reference work in the offices of architects, interior designers and industrial designers in Europe and America until ornament was banished by the Modern Movement in the twentieth century.
This exhibition looks at some of the influences on Jones, and some of the influences of Jones' Grammar on other works during a fifty year span from 1841 to about 1890. The exhibit is also a small history of chromolithographic printing which helped to revolutionize the nineteenth century's sense of object and interior, architecture and place, and atmosphere and nature.
On display in the library lobby through July.
Kresten Jespersen, Ph.D.
In Remembrance of Rauschenberg
American artist Robert Rauschenberg died May 12, 2008 at age 82. The first American to win the Grand Prize for Painting at the 1964 Venice Biennale, he also won a Grammy Award in 1983 for the cover of the Talking Heads album "Speaking in Tongues", and the National Medal of Arts Award in 1993. A selection of books from the library's collection celebrating the work of this prolific and eclectic artist is on display in the library lobby
Debra Thomson
Biography, National Gallery of Art
Obituary, New York Times
Interview (1965), Archives of American Art
Interview (1997), The Art Newspaper
Interview (1997), Vanity Fair
Interview about the "Erased De Kooning"
Interview (2005), Ionarts
Slideshow of Rauschenberg works