The Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative Library at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage houses a growing collection of 2,000 volumes on contemporary art, theory, criticism, and curatorial studies. This continually expanding collection also includes publications produced for PEI-funded exhibitions, such as monographs and catalogues of thematic shows. The PEI Library is a professional development resource for the program’s constituents, and offers a unique opportunity to browse and study many of the field’s most significant international publications.
PEI also commissions and publishes critical writing on curatorial practice, including proceedings from the 2001 symposium Curating Now: Imaginative Practice/Public Responsibility and an anthology entitled Questions of Practice: What Makes a Great Exhibition?
The library is available to constituents of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, by appointment only, 9am – 5pm, Monday – Friday. To make an appointment call 267.350.4930 or e-mail pei@pcah.us.
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Featured PublicationArt and TextArt and Text covers the development of the textual medium in art from the early combinations of text, lettering and image in the work of seminal artists such as El Lissitzky and Kurt Schwitters right Read More..
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Featured PublicationUrs Fischer: Shovel in a HoleShovel in a Hole includes over two-hundred images of the Swiss artist Urs Fischer’s work, and features essays by Massimiliano Gioni, Jessica Morgan, and Bice Curiger. This catalogue is published in conjunction with Fischer’s solo Read More..
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