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Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

Archive-It Partner Since: May, 2013

Organization Type: Museums & Art Libraries

Organization URL: http://www.clarkart.edu/   

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Established in 1962, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library is one of the major art history reference libraries in the country. Focusing on post-medieval art, the Clark Library’s collection is outstanding in Italian and Northern Renaissance, Baroque, and French nineteenth-century, history of photography, and contemporary art fields and is well balanced in other areas as well. The Library’s resources include approximately 280,000 books, bound periodicals, auction sales catalogues, as well as a growing collection of digital assets. The Library holds a collection of over 5,000 contemporary artists’ books, the Julius S. Held Collection of Rare Books, the Mary Ann Beinecke Collection of Decorative Arts, the David A. Hanson Collection on the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, and the Allan Sekula Library. Of note is the Library’s Institutional Archives and the Sterling and Francine Clark Papers which include diaries, correspondence, inventories of artwork, and personal papers of the Institute’s founders.

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Title: 001 INVERSO MUNDUS - AES+F - Teaser 2'23" on Vimeo. Collateral Event Venice Biennale 2015

URL: https://vimeo.com/user14969588/001inversomundusbyaesf/

Collection: Venice Biennale 2015 on the Web

Description: 001 INVERSO MUNDUS - AES+F - Teaser 2'23". Collateral Event Venice Biennale 2015. Vimeo. Video Description: "Inverso Mundus. The series of historical engravings «Inverso Mundus» (The World Upside Down), known since the 16th century, depicts a pig gutting the butcher, a child punishing his teacher, a man carrying a donkey on his back, men and women exchanging roles and costumes, and a beggar in rags majestically giving alms to a rich man. In these engravings there are demons, chimeras, fish flying through the sky, and death itself, depicted variously with a scythe, or behind the mask of Doctor Plague. In our interpretation of «Inverso Mundus», a multichannel video installation, absurd scenes from the historical carnival appear as episodes of contemporary life. Characters are acting out scenes of absurd social utopias, changing their masks, morphing from beggars to rich men, from policemen to thieves. Metrosexual cleaners shower the city with debris. Female inquisitors torture men on IKEA-style devices. Children and seniors are locked in a kick-boxing match. «Inverso Mundus» is a world where chimeras are pets and the Apocalypse is entertainment – AES+F." Collateral Event Venue: Magazzino del Sale n. 5, Dorsoduro, 265 (Fondamenta delle Zattere ai Saloni); Palazzo Nani Mocenigo, Dorsoduro, 960 May 9th – October 31st. Organization: VITRARIA Glass + A Museum

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Subject:   Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Exhibitions Biennale di Venezia (56th : 2015 : Venice, Italy)

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