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Available Now: The Library of Coosje van Bruggen & Claes Oldenburg Ars Libri is pleased to offer for sale the unique library of Coosje van Bruggen & Claes Oldenburg on Contemporary Art. Consisting of 2,060 titles in over 2,325 physical volumes, this Library presents a unique opportunity to acquire the books of two of the most distinguished artists of the postwar period. Complete list of titles can be found here https://lnkd.in/e_ccgSTP A towering figure in postwar American art, whose influence, from the start of Pop Art to the present day, has been profound, and whose unmistakable style is instantly recognizable around the world, Claes Oldenburg (1929-2022) needs no introduction. His wife and collaborator, the Dutch-American scholar and artist Coosje van Bruggen (1942-2009) had a distinguished career as both a critic and curator of contemporary art, and as a widely admired sculptor. Working together over the course of three decades, Oldenburg and van Bruggen's library is a perfect reflection of their work and interests, including extensive resources on the movements of modern and contemporary art. From Pop and Happenings, Fluxus, Arte Povera, Minimal Art, Conceptual Art, and Land Art, all the way to the developments of the new millennium. In addition to its depth in reference books, the library includes rare historic exhibition catalogues and books of early Minimal and Conceptual art - the publications of Seth Siegelaub, exceedingly scarce publications from Vancouver and Oberlin, as well as the landmark shows of the 1960s and 1970s - rare periodicals ("Interfunktionen"), and classic source works inscribed by the authors, together with a rich selection of valuable original artists' books, such as by Carl Andre, John Baldessari, Stanley Brouwn, Hanne Darboven, Peter Downsbrough, Jenny Holzer, Rebecca Horn, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Gerhard Richter, Carolee Schneemann, Emmett Williams, and numerous others. The collection includes such highlights as a fine copy of "The Xerox Book," the sensationally rare catalogue of Gerhard Richter's first exhibition, and a livre d'artiste inscribed to Oldenburg by Jean Dubuffet. Also in the library is a component of antiquarian books collected by Coosje van Bruggen, including a fine copy of the Diderot & d'Alembert "Encyclopédie" of 1777-1779, consisting of 39 volumes. Many of the recent publications on Claes Oldenburg have been boldly signed by the artist. To find out more details and request the price for this authoritative library, please contact us at orders@arslibri.com or send a DM #ContemporaryArt #Fluxus #ArtePovera #CollectionDevelopment

Available Now: The Library of Professor David Gordon Mitten Ars Libri is pleased to offer for sale the authoritative library of Professor David Gordon Mitten on The Ancient World. The library consists of 2,744 titles in over 2,900 physical volumes. The Mitten Library presents an excellent opportunity to acquire a core library of books on ancient art and archaeology. Complete list of titles can be found here https://lnkd.in/db6GykJd David Gordon Mitten (1935-2022) was a renowned teacher, scholar, and museum curator, who had a transformative effect on countless students and colleagues over the course of a Harvard career that began in 1957. His course on “Images of Alexander the Great” was legendary. Mitten was: - Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, Harvard University - George M. A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art, Harvard Art Museums - Associate Director, Harvard-Cornell Sardis Expedition - Whitehead Visiting Professor of Archaeology, American School of Classical Studies at Athens From 1959 onward, professor Mitten spent 17 summers in the field at Sardis, Turkey, with the Harvard-Cornell Archaeological Exploration of Sardis under the legendary archaeologist George Hanfmann. Mitten was put in charge of excavations in the Byzantine Shops, the Marble Court, and then in the southeast area of the Bath-Gymnasium complex, where in 1963 he discovered the ancient world’s largest synagogue. One of his many discoveries at Sardis was the Cybele Monument, perhaps the most famous known work of Lydian sculpture. His truly extraordinary range of interests and expertise in all aspects of classical antiquity ranged from ancient bronzes to Roman coins to the Bronze Age of Anatolia. For a number of years Professor Mitten taught a survey course at Harvard on Greek art, architecture, and archaeology, along with seminars on Greek sculpture, vase painting, bronzes, and Greek coinage utilizing the excellent collection in the Arthur M Sackler Foundation Museum. He also taught courses and seminars on Aegean, Anatolian, and Achaemenian Persian art and archaeology. For fifteen years he taught with Helmut Koester of the Harvard Divinity School the seminar, "Archaeology and the World of the New Testament," in which participants presented their final finished reports on-site in Greece and Turkey. Professor Mitten has taught regularly in the Harvard Extension School on both the survey and seminar levels and has supervised many theses for the Master of Liberal Arts program there. He lectured widely on study trips to the Mediterranean area for the Harvard Alumni Association and the Harvard Art Museums. To find out more details and request the price for this authoritative library, please contact us at orders@arslibri.com or send a DM Istanbul University, Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism #AncientWorld #Sardis #Excavation #Harvard #CollectionDevelopment

Available Now: The Library of Professor Daniel T. Potts Ars Libri is pleased to offer for sale the important library of Professor Daniel Potts on the archaeology of the Arabian Peninsula, Central & Western Asia, as well as the Indus Valley. The library consists of 2,625 titles in over 3,250 physical volumes. Complete list of titles can be found here https://lnkd.in/dPa6yzFz Daniel T. Potts is Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and History, NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, and held positions at Freie Universität Berlin (1981-86); University of Copenhagen (Københavns Universitet) (1980-81 and 1986-1991); held the Edwin Cuthbert Hall Chair of Middle Eastern Archaeology at University of Sydney (1991-2012); and is the founding editor of the journal Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, published by Wiley. Professor Potts received his Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University specializing on Near Eastern archaeology, and has conducted important excavations in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Arabian Archaeology & Epigraphy and a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute and the Associazione Internazionale di Studi sul Mediterraneo e l'Oriente in Rome, Italy. His many important publications include: - Nomadism in Iran, Oxford University Press (2014) - Mesopotamia, Iran and Arabia from the Seleucids to the Sasanians, Routledge (2010) - Excavations at Tepe Yahya, 1967-1975, Harvard University Press (2001) - The Archaeology of Elam, Cambridge University Press & Assessment (1999, 2016) - Mesopotamian Civilization, Cornell University Press (1997) Professor Potts is the editor of the two volume “Blackwell Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East”, Wiley (2012) and the “Oxford Handbook of Iranian Archaeology”, Oxford University Press (2013). Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, New York University Abu Dhabi #MENA #Islamic #Art #Architecture #Library #CollectionDevelopment

[SOLD NOVEMBER 2024] The Library of Professor Dr. Baber Johansen   Ars Libri is pleased to offer for sale the Islamic Law Library of Professor Dr. Baber Johansen, consisting of 1526 titles in over 1,820 physical volumes. Professor Johansen built this important, highly focused library on all aspects of Islamic law from the beginning in the 7th century to our own times, during his highly distinguished career, spanning more than 60 years in Germany, France and the United States. Interested parties can find a complete listing of the library and additional information here: https://lnkd.in/drqCE9TF Baber Johansen was appointed Professor of Islamic Religious Studies at Harvard Divinity School in 2005. In 2006 he was appointed an affiliated professor at Harvard Law School and acting director of its Islamic Legal Studies Program from 2006 to 2010. In 2007, he was affiliated with the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and from 2010 to 2013, he was the director of the The Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Professor Johansen is also a faculty associate at Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and a member of its Executive Committee. Prior to his appointment at Harvard University, Baber Johansen was Professor for Islamic Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin (1972-1995) and served as Directeur d'études at the EHESS - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre d'étude des normes juridiques, Paris (1995-2005). Professor Johansen's research and teaching focus on the relationship between religion and law in the classical and the modern Muslim world. His book "Muhammad Husain Haikal. Europa und der Orient im Weltbild eines ägyptischen Liberalen" Orient-Institut Beirut (1967), translated into Arabic in Abu Dhabi in 2010 by Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre and Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi), examines twentieth-century liberal interpretations of Islam. "Contingency in a Sacred Law: Legal and Ethical Norms in the Muslim Fiqh" De Gruyter Brill (1999) focuses on law, social practice, and ethics in Islam. Professor Johansen was twice elected a member of the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, and has been a visiting professor at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Harvard University, and Università Ca' Foscari Venezia. He is one of the three executive editors of "Islamic Law and Society", and has served as area editor for Islamic Law in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Legal History (Oxford University Press, 2009) and as adviser for the Encyclopedia of Law and Society (Sage, 2009). To find out more details and request the price for this highly focused library, please contact us at orders@arslibri.com or send a DM Dr. Ali Bin Tamim, Abu Dhabi University, The American University in the Emirates (AUE), United Arab Emirates University, University of Dubai #MENA #Islamic #Art #Architecture #Library #CollectionDevelopment

[SOLD NOVEMBER 2024] The Library of Professor Sheila Blair and Professor Jonathan M. Bloom Ars Libri is pleased to offer for sale the Islamic Art and Architecture Library of Professor Sheila Blair and Professor Jonathan M. Bloom, joint holders of the Norma Jean Calderwood University Chair of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College (2000-2018), and joint holders of the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair of Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University (2006-2022). A complete list of titles can be found here: https://lnkd.in/dHdeDgN6 Internationally acclaimed art historians Sheila Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom received their doctorates in Islamic Art from Harvard University. Together, they are the authors of more than two dozen books, including “Islamic Arts” published by Phaidon (1997). Their book “Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power” published by Yale University Press (2001) was written as a companion to the 3-part PBS television series, “Islam: Empire of Faith” To quote Robert Hillenbrand, the editor of the Blair/Bloom Festschrift “The Making of Islamic Art: Studies in Honour of Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom” Edinburgh University Press (2021): “Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom…have an absolutely indisputable claim to be the most successful partnership of Islamic art historians on record, and they have publications galore, some of them prize-winning volumes, to prove it…with literally dozens of joint publications stretching back some thirty years.” Their library of over 4,700 physical volumes covers all aspects of Islamic art and architecture from the early Islamic empire to the 20th century, from Muslim Spain to Central Asia, China, and India. To find out more details and request the price for this comprehensive library, please contact us at orders@arslibri.com or send a DM Bodour Al Qasimi, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah Art Foundation #MENA #Islamic #Art #Architecture #Library #CollectionDevelopment

I proudly announce that Clavis Aurea is now the official representative of Ars Libri for the Middle East and North Africa region! We look forward to this collaboration, as Ars Libri is America's largest dealer of rare books on art, specializing in academic library collection development. It is especially the latter that is exciting to us. Placing unique print book collections, such as the Mottahedeh Library, Jungraithmayr Library and Thorndike Martin Library at institutions throughout the MENA feels like endeavoring for a higher cause. We look forward to take part in shaping the scholarly landscape by making curated, comprehensive collections available to libraries and their patrons in the Arabic speaking countries. Ars Libri - www.arslibri.com Clavis Aurea - www.clavisaurea.nl #LibraryDevelopment #MENA #CuratedCollections #ArsLibri

Now Available: The Library of Professor Geoffrey Thorndike Martin   Ars Libri is exceptionally pleased to offer for sale the Egyptological Library of the distinguished British scholar Geoffrey Thorndike Martin (1934-2022), one of the most outstanding archaeologists of his generation, and a devoted bibliophile. His library contains over 7,400 physical volumes in addition to more than 4,000 uncatalogued offprints. A complete list of titles can be found here: https://lnkd.in/dJQinvtP Thorndike Martin was Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology Emeritus at UCL, London; Fellow-Commoner of Christ's College Cambridge and Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at University of Cambridge. Professor Thorndike Martin has worked as the Field Director of the Cambridge Expedition to the Valley of the Kings: The Royal Theban Tomb of Horemheb. His fieldwork was carried out in various locations in Sudan and Egypt. He excavated with The Egypt Exploration Society’s mission at Buhen in Sudan in 1963. With The Egypt Exploration Society and the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden and Universiteit van Amsterdam he excavated at Saqqara from 1964-98 in various roles. Thorndike Martin was most famous for his discoveries of the tomb of Maya, Tutankhamun’s treasurer, and the private tomb of Horemheb, but also more generally for his work in the Valley of the Kings and Saqqara. The discoveries in Saqqara include Tia, Ramesses the Great's sister and other dignitaries.   In addition to hundreds of articles, Thorndike Martin was the author of numerous monographs including: - The Tomb of Hetepka, The Egypt Exploration Society (1979) - Corpus of Reliefs of the New Kingdom, Routledge (1987) - The Hidden Tombs of Memphis, Thames & Hudson (1991) - Stelae from Egypt and Nubia in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University Press & Assessment (2005) The Geoffrey Thorndike Martin Library presents one of the last opportunities to acquire a comprehensive library on the art and archaeology of ancient Egypt and Nubia. To find out more details and request the price for this outstanding library, please contact us at orders@arslibri.com or send a DM Bibliotheca Alexandrina - مكتبة الإسكندرية MOHAMMED BIN RASHID LIBRARY #MENA #Egytology #Library #CollectionDevelopment

Now Available: The Library of Professor Dr. Herrmann Jungraithmayr We are very pleased to announce that the extraordinary African linguistics library of Professor Dr. Herrmann Jungraithmayr is now available for purchase from Ars Libri. Professor Jungraithmayr is the founder of the Institute of African Studies, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. His library contains 1,794 titles in more than 2,300 physical volumes, and includes publications on well over 300 languages spoken on the African continent. A complete list of the titles can be found here https://lnkd.in/df8UF5kQ Professor Jungraithmayr - a giant among scholars of African languages - was born in 1931 in Austria. Jungraithmayr pursued his studies at Universität Wien and obtained his doctorate at Universität Hamburg. From 1956 to 1959 he taught at various institutes and universities in Cairo, including Al-Azhar University. After teaching at The Philipp University of Marburg from 1963 to 1985, he became chair of African Linguistics at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt where he founded the Institute of African Studies. At various times he was visiting professor at Howard University, the University of Maiduguri, and the Università di Napoli L'Orientale. He has been the Responsible de la Section Tchadique at the CNRS since the 1970s, as well as President of the ASSOCIATION MEGA-TCHAD in Paris from 1990 to 1999. Jungraithmayr is the author of over 200 monographs and articles, grammars and dictionaries on dozens of languages (in many instances the very first analysis of the language). His publications, to name but a few, include: - “Einführung in die Hausa-Sprache” (1976) - “Études sur le subjonctif en tchadique” (1980) - “Gedächtniskultur und Schriftlichkeit in Afrika” (1981) - “Fonctionnement du verbe dans trois langues tchadiques” (1982) - “Síndi: Tangale Folktales" [Kaltungo, Northeastern Nigeria] (2002) - “La langue Mubi / Kaan gi Monjul (République du Tchad)" (2013) - “Die Dreidimensionalität afrikanischer Sprachen” (2019) The Jungraithmayr Library represents a unique opportunity to acquire a major library on the subject of African Linguistics. The books were assembled over an academic career spanning some 70 years, an accomplishment impossible to duplicate today. To find out more details and request the price for this remarkable library, please contact us at orders@arslibri.com or send a DM The Africa Institute, Global Studies University, Sharjah #MENA #AfricanLinguistics #Library #CollectionDevelopment

Now Available: The Library of Professor Roy Parviz Mottahedeh, containing over 8,000 physical volumes. Subject Field: Islamic Civilization. Reach out to Ars Libri to find out more! #MENA #AncientNearEast #Library #CollectionDevelopment

Now Available: The Library of Professor Roy Parviz Mottahedeh   Ars Libri is proud to be able to offer for sale the Islamic Civilization Library of Professor Roy Parviz Mottahedeh, Harvard University: - Gurney Professor of History, Emeritus - Director of The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (1987-1990) - Director of Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program (2005-2011) Click here for his full bio - https://lnkd.in/dwb9ZaP5 This library consists of 6,568 titles in well over 8,000 physical volumes! Complete list of titles can be found here https://lnkd.in/dkee8et3 Professor Mottahedeh is internationally renowned for his seminal works “Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society” Princeton University Press (1980) and “The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran” Penguin Random House's Pantheon imprint (1985). His most recent publication which appeared shortly before his death is “In the Shadow of the Prophet: Essays in Islamic History” https://lnkd.in/dAqu9DcB (2023). In addition, Professor Mottahedeh is the author of numerous articles that demonstrate his wide range of interests from the Abbasid period in the eighth century to Islamic revival movements of the present day. One of his most widely distributed articles, which has been translated into many languages, was his critique of Huntington’s theory of the clash of civilizations. Professor Mottahedeh’s other publications consider such diverse topics as the transmission of learning in the Muslim world, the social bonds that connected people in the early Islamic Middle East, the theme of “wonders” in The Thousand and One Nights, the concept of jihad in the early Islamic period, and perceptions of Persepolis among later Muslims. Professor Mottahedeh was one of the first MacArthur Foundation fellows in 1981. He was elected a Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2006, he received an honorary degree from Lund University in Sweden. The wide range of his interests, the depth of his scholarship and his vast impact on generations of students at Princeton University and subsequently at Harvard University were the often repeated focus of the many speakers at his memorial service this week. His library is rich in holdings of primary and secondary texts from the beginnings of Islam to the present time.   To find out more details and request the price for this outstanding library, please contact us at orders@arslibri.com or send a DM