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The Arts Library is located on the northeast side of campus on the first floor of the Luskin School of Public Affairs building. Structure 3 is the closest parking lot.
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Arts Library Collections
The Arts Library has over 350,000 volumes in the fields of architecture, architectural history, art, art history, design, fashion and costume, film, television, photography, theater and urban design.
More Information
On Display: Binding the Rules: Artists' Approaches to Book Binding
Exhibit on display at the Arts Library from August 21, 2023 - February 23, 2024.
About the Exhibit
The binding, arguably, makes the book. Indeed, the Oxford English Dictionary states that a book is “a series of written, printed, or illustrated pages bound together” (emphasis added). Many of the artists’ books displayed in this exhibit reinforce the centrality of binding to the book as a form. Regardless of the exact style of binding, or lack thereof entirely, each of the works invites the viewer to reassess their own definition of a “book,” and all the baggage attached to the concept.
About
The Arts Library has more than 300,000 volumes in the fields of architecture, architectural history, art, art history, design, fashion and costume, film, television, photography, theater, urban design and allied disciplines. More than one-third of these holdings are stored in the Southern Regional Library Facility.
Detailed research guides are available online for architecture and urban design; art and art history; design media arts; film, television, and theater; fashion and costume; and image resources.
For more about our history, read our detailed timeline(opens in a new tab).