June is #PrideMonth so we here at Central Saint Martins Library have put together a display to celebrate! You can find it opposite the information desk, and it will be up throughout the month 🎉 Please feel free to borrow anything that interests you. #Pride

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Are you ageing? We are! Long may it continue. Today's CSM Sunday Spotlight is on "The Long History of Old Age", edited by Pat Thane. In this book, historians explain how old age has been perceived & portrayed in the West, from Ancient - & ancient - Greeks, to old-age pensions.

🔊Term time opening hours have now finished until September. Please check our opening hours pages for precise dates and times bit.ly/3N8ZyvP ⚠️ All libraries will be closed tomorrow, Tuesday 20 June.

Today's CSM Sunday Spotlight is on the book "Watch Out! A Giant!" by Eric Carle, most well known for his incredibly popular book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" (which we also stock, along with hundreds of children's illustrated books from the past century or so - come and see!)

🔊Term time opening hours have now finished until September. Please check our opening hours pages for precise dates and times bit.ly/3N8ZyvP

📢 Our Subject Guides are having a redesign. Launching tomorrow! ✨ arts.ac.libguides.com

Now on Lethaby Gallery Design Transforms '23: Product, ceramic and industrial design work by our staff, students + alumni and recent collabs. Find us on the #LDF23 Festival Programme londondesignfestival.com/activities/des… 📸 Work: Alise Kennedy, Phoebe Simmons and Nhan-Nhi Lillian Nguyen

Library Bookings is getting a shiny new upgrade so will be unavailable for a short time 3pm-5pm today Tuesday 12th September. Please contact ASK or your local library help desk for assistance.arts.ac.libanswers.com

The new HE term begins tomorrow, along with our longer term-time opening hours (link in bio)! To celebrate, here are some images from our brand new book "The world's most beautiful libraries" by Massimo Listri. (It leaves out CSM but we assume we'll be in the sequel...🤩)

American artist Ben Shahn was born in 1898, in what's now Lithuania. A social realist painter and commercial artist, he had a passion for social justice and a fascination with calligraphy. This week's CSM Sunday Spotlight is on Shahn's book "Love and joy about letters".

For their long-term collaboration, designer Issey Miyake would refuse to be present when photographer Irving Penn shot his work, to limit his own influence. Today's CSM Sunday Spotlight is on "Irving Penn regards the work of Issey Miyake : photographs 1975-1998".

Today's CSM Sunday Spotlight is on "Picasso and the theater", edited by Olivier Berggruen and Max Hollein. The influence of theatrical motifs on Picasso's art is clear. Picasso also designed sets, costumes and curtains for the stage, including for the Ballets Russes.

The CSM Sunday Spotlight wants YOU to pop in & read this book by Susan E Meyer about James Montgomery Flagg, a 20th century American illustrator, known for his World War I propaganda posters, illustrations for Life magazine , & his masterful portrayal of light using ink hatching.

Barbara Johnson lived from 1738-1825. Whenever she bought a new dress, she would record the details, with fabric and trimming samples. Today's CSM Sunday Spotlight is on "Barbara Johnson's album of fashions and fabrics", edited by Natalie Rothstein.

Today's CSM Sunday Spotlight is on "The Imperial collection of Audubon animals : the quadrupeds of North America" by John James Audubon, John Bachman & Victor H Cahalane. Although Audubon is remembered for his bird illustrations, this book is all about 4-legged furry fellows.

Today's CSM Sunday Spotlight is on "Erté : fascino e seduzione déco (Art deco fashion and seduction)" edited by Franco Maria Messina, written in both Italian and English.

Today's CSM Sunday Spotlight is on Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli, a beautiful book about an abrasive professor of architecture going through a mid-life crisis. Mazzucchelli plays with comic conventions and art theory to tell a touching and funny story.

Juan Gris (born José Victoriano González-Pérez in 1887) was a Spanish Cubist painter and theatre designer who worked in France. Today's CSM Sunday Spotlight is on "Juan Gris" by Christopher Green.