Art speaks with many tongues, the immediacy of the image requiring no translation. One does not need fluent Italian to appreciate Titian, nor French to enjoy the Impressionists. The art of China means a great deal to many who think of Chinese as the world’s least learnable language, and by whom a taste for Chinese music has yet to be acquired. The visual arts of different countries and culture-groups have had, and still have, enough in common for contact between them to be mutually stimulating; an interest in Man as maker of images and co-creator of the visible world, implies concern for art the world over.

Some reflections on the photographic research undertaken by the Arts Faculty Liaison Librarian, as part of the preparation for publication of the texts for the Open University course, ‘Architecture and Design 1890-1939’.

An account of the scope, aims, and organisation of the Central Lettering Record, a photographic collection of lettering housed in the library of the Central School of Art & Design, London.

While Printer to the University of Oxford, John Johnson began to collect printed ephemera as evidence of the history of social life in general and of printing in particular. The present-day collection, the scope and organisation of which is described, is held in the Bodleian Library.

The production and distribution of a contemporary livre d’artiste