The Libraries would like to highlight some new titles that have been added recently to the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum Library.
Month: April 2011
In February the Libraries deposited the 10,000th publication in the Smithsonian Digital Repository, part of the Smithsonian Research Online program. This milestone was achieved with a collaborative paper by Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute researcher Ben Hirsch and the Smithsonian’s National Zoo geneticist Jesus Maldonado.
For those who have visited both the Smithsonian Institution Natural History’s Orchids: A View from the East and Freer | Sackler’s The Orchid in Chinese Painting, they’d be amazed by the contrast between the vibrate colors of the live orchids and the monochrome ink representation done in the Chinese paintings.
Fans and critics worldwide agree that David A. Carter is paper engineering extraordinaire. In his latest creation, One Red Dot, Carter has adopted a design scheme reminiscent of Alexander Calder’s mobiles —innovative in its approach and infused with motion, abstract patterns, and fluidity. With contemporary pop-up spreads and a feisty red dot to find on each page, this modern work of art is both a count-to-ten activity book and an artistic adventure rolled into one!
There’s still time to see some wonderful images relating to the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Italy’s unification.
The items are displayed in an exhibition in the Dibner Library reading room, open 2-4 pm through this Friday. If you are in the washington D.C. area, be sure to stop by and take a look!
I am currently a conservation graduate student at the Institut National du Patrimoine in Paris and I have been accepted in the Book Conservation Lab in the Preservation Department at the Libraries (SIL) to complete part of my 4th year internship requirement.