Kappe Library December Reading List Highlights Imago Mundi, Indigenous Cultures
This December, SCI-Arc’s Kappe Library recommended reading list includes a small selection of titles from the Fondazione Imago Mundi contemporary artists collection, which features small artworks by contemporary artists from 173 regions around the globe. Commissioned and collected by Luciano Benetton, each book features an individual collection of commissioned artworks from one country, group of countries, or culture. Of the 146 monographs donated to the Kappe Library, developing nations, indigenous cultures, and places and peoples mostly outside the global art market are heavily represented.
SCI-Arc Kappe Library selections from Library Manager Kevin McMahon:
Alison Saar: Of Aether and Earthe / coedited by Rebecca McGrew and Irene Tsatsos, Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, 2020
Beyond Aesthetics: Use, Abuse, and Dissonance in African Art Traditions / Wole Soyinka, Yale University Press, 2019
Graphic Design: A New History / Stephen Eskilson, Yale University Press, 2019
Inside Out & Upside Down: Posters from CalArts, 1980-2019 / edited by Michael Worthington, MW Books, 2019
Modern Construction Handbook / Andrew Watts, Birkhäuser, 2019
Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress / Elizabeth M. Bucar, Harvard University Press, 2017
Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin / Peter L’Official, Harvard University Press, 2020
The Wunderkammer of Odile Decq / texts by Lionel Lemire and Robin Thomas, Images Publishing, 2019
Alison Saar: Of Aether and Earthe / coedited by Rebecca McGrew and Irene Tsatsos, Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, 2020
Beyond Aesthetics: Use, Abuse, and Dissonance in African Art Traditions / Wole Soyinka, Yale University Press, 2019
Inside Out & Upside Down: Posters from CalArts, 1980-2019 / edited by Michael Worthington, MW Books, 2019
Graphic Design: A New History / Stephen Eskilson, Yale University Press, 2019
Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin / Peter L’Official, Harvard University Press, 2020
Iran: Iranomutomorphosis.net: Contemporary Artists from Iran / texts by Luciano Benetton, Bita fayyazi, and Vali Mahlouji, Fabrica, 2014
Modern Construction Handbook / Andrew Watts, Birkhäuser, 2019
Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress / Elizabeth M. Bucar, Harvard University Press, 2017
North Korea: A Unique Country: Contemporary Artists from North Korea / texts by Luciano Benetton, et al, Fabrica, 2014
Selections from the Imago Mundi Contemporary Artists Collection:
Barbarians and Poets: Contemporary Artists from Belgium / edited by Enrico Bossan; texts by Luciano Benetton, et al, Fabrica, 2017
Brazil: Land of the Future: Contemporary Artists from Brazil / edited by Enrico Bossan; texts by Luciano Benetton, et al, Fabrica, 2015
Creative Density: Contemporary Art of the Golden Bengal / edited by Enrico Bossan; texts by Luciano Benetton, et al, Fabrica, 2016
Iran: Iranomutomorphosis.net: Contemporary Artists from Iran / texts by Luciano Benetton, Bita fayyazi, and Vali Mahlouji, Fabrica, 2014
Looking Down Under: Contemporary Artists from Australia / edited by Enrico Bossan; texts by Luciano Benetton, et al, Fabrica, 2015
Mexico: The Future is Unwritten: Contemporary Artists from Mexico / texts by Luciano Benetton, et al, Fabrica, 2015
North Korea: A Unique Country: Contemporary Artists from North Korea / texts by Luciano Benetton, et al, Fabrica, 2014