My activities this week were devoted to cataloging periodicals. I added approximately 35 new titles to the library catalog, ranging from American and French fashion magazines of the early 20th-century (Signe: Les Modes à Paris, French Elle, Vogue) to art-related titles. As Jessica mentioned in her blog entry last week, fashion and art are closely related. Many early fashion magazines include articles about artists and artworks of the times, in addition to stylized fashion photography and graphic design advertisements. One art-related title of particular note is an issue of View magazine, a surrealist art and poetry publication. The Jean Outland Chrysler Library collection already contained a book about the history of View magazine (View: Parade of the Avant-Garde), which, over the years of its publication (1940-47) featured work by artists, including: Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp. Now, library users can see an original example of the magazine itself.-Rachel Juris, 2009 Jean Outland Chrysler Library Cataloging Fellow
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