Current Hours: Summer (May 19 - September 3, 2012)

Monday-Friday 9:00am to 4:45pm
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May 28, July 4, September 3

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  • The library's current exhibit is Crafted Design & Agents of Change: Modern European Publications from the Collection of Barbara Mackey Kaerwer. The library proudly presents a selection of early twentieth-century German and Austrian publications by some of the era’s most notable artists and designers, including Koloman Moser, Wassily Kandinsky, Erich Heckel, Walter Gropius, Josef Hoffman and Dagobert Peche.  This exhibit was curated by graduate students in Art History 856, Nationalism in the Era of the International, and runs from March 20 through May 31, 2012.
  • Furnishings for the Earl of Derby are included in volume 2 of "The Works of Architecture of Robert and James Adam, Esquires" (1901-3). See this recently digitized facsimile in the Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture.
  • AP Images is a licensed database available for UW-Madison academic use. It includes almost 8 million Associated Press primary source photographs and images dating from the 1820s to date.
  • If you are searching for images of visual and material culture, make use of the library subscription to ARTstor. This searchable database contains over one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities and social sciences.
  • The library subscribes to both Designinform (including Design Abstracts Retrospective) and Design and Applied Arts Index. These article citation databases provide coverage of design-related journals important to the development of design from the early 20th century through the present. Designinform (Design Abstracts Retrospective) covers journals dating from 1903-1985. For recent articles, consult Design and Applied Arts Index which covers articles from 1973-current.
  • Approximately 6000 of our books were digitized in the Google Book Project as a way to expand access to these important art-related historical materials.
  • Interested in the book arts?  See the library's Artists’ Book Collection database, an illustrated, descriptive index to over 760 artists’ books located in the Kohler Art Library.  Users can search by artist, title, press, book structure, binding, subject, or contributor roles.