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A Picasso Masterwork Special Collections recently received a wonderful donation of the 1949 Bibliotheque Francaise publication of Carmen by Prosper Mérimée, illustrated with 38 drypoint etchings by Picasso. The 163-page folio is copy 200 of 320 and includes a title and justifications page signed by Picasso. Dr. Norman Mann, who donated the folio, commented that this work of art and letters reveals "what Picasso could show with a single line." |
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Changing Japan | ||
In 1961, photojournalist W. Eugene Smith was commissioned by Hitachi Ltd. to photograph the company's operations
throughout Japan. The stark, yet superb, pictures he took documenting the company's operations and changes in
Japanese society were later collected in the book Japan: A Chapter of Image. This first edition, hardcover
book was published in 1963 in gravure, and it contains many of Smith's photographs that were not published elsewhere.
The book was the first purchase made with income from the Hartung Japanese Studies Endowment and is in honor of
former Friends of the Library President Barbara Hartung.
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| Aztec Parents Gift The Aztec Parents Association provided funding for the purchase of one Wide Dispersion Localizer sound dome and two 42" plasma screen televisions, creating a high-tech news center in the Current Periodicals and Microforms Center. The sound dome delivers high-quality stereo sound to 1-4 individuals within the dome's range without disturbing other library patrons. Students can view and listen to programs aired by SDSU's Instructional Technology Services in the news center. |
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Pages from New Deal History Special Collections has acquired the Stanton Macdonald-Wright scrapbook of sketches for the Santa Monica Public Library mural. This one-of-a-kind piece contains 30 pages with 40 pencil drawings, plus 14 pages of photographs of paintings by Macdonald-Wright and clipped news articles. Macdonald-Wright was hired by the Public Works of Art Project (the predecessor to the WPA Federal Art Project) in 1934 to paint a series of murals. The materials in this scrapbook reference "Invention and Imagination," the mural painted on the interior walls of the Santa Monica Library.
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Historical Astronomy Addition In 1729, M. Pierre Bouguer published Essai d'optique sur la gradation de la lumiere, his landmark work that sought to define the quantity of light lost by passing through a given extent of the atmosphere. Bouguer was the leading French authority on navigational science and published widely on geodesy and hydrography. The library purchased a rare copy of Essai in honor of David DeVorkin, Ph.D., an SDSU alumnus and a recipient of the Monty Award in 2007.
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Vince Meades Sheet Music Collection Vince Meades has made another sizeable donation of sheet music. Included were a number of E.T. Paull pieces, known and valued for their colorful, illustrated covers.
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Young Women's Christian Association Special Collections has been given the Historic Records of the YWCA of San Diego County. The collection includes scrapbooks, photographs, records and other ephemera dating to the organization's formal incorporation in 1908. The YWCA also provided a cash gift to support the cost of making the collection accessible.
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