uca special collections guide

The University LibrarySpecial Collections Guide

ROCHESTERpageone Blue Folders Collection Karen Millen Collectionpagetwo Fashion Slidespagethree Medway College of Design Archivepagefour Microfiche Collection pagefive Student’s Sketchbook Collectionpagesix Stuart Aitken Research Filespageseven Urban Fox Press

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contentsCANTERBURYpageone The Canterbury College of Art Archivepagetwo The Canterbury College of Art Archivepagethree The Canterbury College of Art Archive pagefour Artists’ Books Collectionpagefive Herbert Read Collectionpagesix Rare Books Collectionpageseven Rare Books Collection

EPSOMpageone Archive & Rare Books Collection

pagetwo Information about & accessing the collection

pagethree The ‘Climax’ System for cutting gentleman’s clothes

pagefour Artists’ Books Collection

pagefive Artists’ Books Collection

FARNHAMpageone Audio Visual Animation Collection

pagetwo Rare Books Collection

pagethree Artists’ Books Collection

pagefour Bookroom Artists’ Book Collection

MAIDSTONEpageone Antiquarian books & small press collections

pagetwo Artists’ Film & Video Collection



pagefive Bande Dessinee Collection

pagesix Tessa Boffin Archive

PERIODICALSpageone Accessing the Collectionspagetwo Architectural Reviewpagethree Audio Arts Magazinepagefour British Design & Art Directionpagefive The Burlington Magazinepagesix Gazette des Beaux Arts at Farnhampageseven The Penrose Annualpageeight The Picture Postpagenine Typographica

pageten Vogue

The University LibrarySpecial Collections GuideCanterbury

contentspageone The Canterbury College of Art Archive

pagetwo The Canterbury College of Art Archive

pagethree The Canterbury College of Art Archive

pagefour The Artists’ Books Collection

pagefive Herbert Read Collection

pagesix Rare Books Collection

pageseven Rare Books Collection

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Canterbury College of Art Archive

Description and origin of the collection

There has been an art school in Canterbury since 1868, when Sidney Cooper founded the first school in his mother’s old home. This school was then given to the city of Canterbury in 1882 with the objective of giving the youth of Canterbury the opportunity to study. The school became known as Canterbury College of Art and offered courses on embroidery, sketching, woodwork and life drawing, expanding by the 1930s to offer a wider range of subjects including architecture. The college continued to grow and by 1970 was operating from 12 different sites around the city until moving to a new purpose built site on New Dover Road in 1971.

In 1987 Canterbury College of Art merged with art colleges in Maidstone and Rochester to become the Kent Institute of Art and Design (KIAD). In 2005 the partnership with Surrey Institute of Art and Design created the University College for the Creative Arts and became the University for the Creative Arts in 2008.

Information about the collection

The archive at Canterbury library holds material covering most of the art college’s life, and reflects the changes that have taken place over the years. The collection

includes:

• A wide range of prospectuses; many from the 1970s with one dated at 1949.

• College publications including in house productions from the College of Art Press.

• Student produced journals dating back to 1948.

• Exhibition catalogues from student shows and the Herbert Read gallery.

• Press cuttings and visitors books.

• Information referring to the college and the city of Canterbury, including post war planning and traffic control

Accessing the collection

There is a printed index to find specific material. Ask at the Information Desk to use the index and consult the material

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RYClear, Nic (2008) Adjacencies. Canterbury: University for the Creative Arts. Clear, Nic (2008) Adjacencies. Canterbury: University for the Creative Arts.

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The artists’ books are either fine art or illustrative in concept demonstrating different forms of narrative and graphic expression. Books by artists include Horizon to horizon by Hamish Fulton, a record of a walk from Galway to Derry, Concerning the poetry of lost things (Harrow) by John Bently, a collection of notes found in the street and Wind blown clouds by Alec Finlay a collection of images of cloud formations taken from the slide archive at the BALTIC.

There are also examples of work by teaching staff donated or purchased by the library. Examples include Facebook by Tony Mott, Postcard from Margate by Rob McDonald and Good quote: art school marginalia by Lucy Harrison. The collection also contains zines by artists and students, often personal and reflective in nature.


The Library actively collects artists’ books and ‘zines. A visual guide has been created where the objects are described to encourage use of the material. The written descriptions are also on the library catalogue.


They are filed in cabinets in alphabetical order by title. All items are for library use only.

McDonald, Rob (2007) Postcard from Margate Canterbury: self published.

Mott, Tony (2007) Facebook. Unknown:self published.

Harrison, Lucy (2003) Good quote: art school marginalia. Canterbury: University for the Creative Arts.

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Herbert Read Collection

Description and origin of collection

Sir Herbert Read (1893 – 1968) was a British poet and critic known as an advocate and interpreter of modern art. He became an important figure in the promotion of modernism in Britain, developing friendships with key figures such as the poet T. S. Eliot, the sculptors Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, and the painter Ben Nicholson. He became very influential as a champion of modernism in art and poetry, and as a pioneer of Jungian depth-psychology in criticism. He published collections of verse and art-historical studies and in 1933 he published Art Now. In 1936 he was one of the organisers of the Surrealist Exhibition in London and in 1947 he founded the Institute of Contemporary Arts with Ronald Penrose.

He was a prolific writer and became editor of the Burlington magazine in 1933. His most well known publications are Education through Art (1943), A concise

history of modern painting (1959) and A concise history of modern sculpture (1964). He was knighted in 1953.


The Herbert Read Collection is material by and about Herbert Read. It was purchased by the college in 1988 at a cost of £15,000. It is the only existing archive of Herbert Read material in a British academic institution.


This material is listed on the library catalogue. Ask at the Information Desk for access to specific items.

Herbert Read Quotation. At: http://www.flickr.com/photos/duncan/18054670/ (Accessed on 21.12.10).

Herbert Read Potrait.At: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbert_Read_1958_sitting_w_dog_cropped_(head_and_shoulders).JPG (Accessed on 21.12.10).

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Rare Books Collection


The Canterbury Rare Books collection holds an eclectic combination of books on art, design and architecture. One of the strengths of this collection, are the items on historical aspects of architecture, for example garden design, English / British houses, decoration, brickwork and plasterwork. The Library moves items from the main collection if they are considered to be important enough to keep but may become fragile in time. Example of this is The villas of Le Corbusier by Benton and Issue 5 of Archigram Magazine.

The Fine Art subject area includes Break Down by Michael Landy and Teignmouth Electron by Tacita Dean, they are relatively recent publications in this collection housed here because they are unusual editions. Of historical interest to audio visual artists is Colour-Music: the art of light by A. B. Klein.

John L. Berbiers was City Architect and Planning Officer for Canterbury City Council from 1956 to the 1970s. He was a well respected figure in the world of architecture;

gaining Civic Trust awards in 1960 and 1963, and being awarded the prestigious Ministry of Housing and Local Government and RIBA Housing Award in 1965 for his extension building to The Holt residential home in Canterbury. During his time at Canterbury Berbiers was responsible for several redevelopment projects and changed the face of the city. He designed the College of Art (now University for the Creative Arts), the Technical College, Barton Court School and the ambulance station.

John Berbiers bequeathed his own books and research material to the University Library and this material is now housed in the Rare Books Collection.


This material is listed on the library catalogue. Ask at the Information Desk for access to specific items.

Klein, Adrian (1926) Colour-music: the art of light. London: Crosby, Lockwood and Son.First Numbers (1914-1939) First Issues of various periodicals.

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The University LibrarySpecial Collections GuideEpsom

contentspageone Archive & Rare Books Collection

pagetwo Information about & accessing the collection

pagethree The ‘Climax’ System for cutting gentleman’s clothes


pagefive Artists’ Books Collection

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Archive and Rare Books Collection


The Epsom Technical Institute and School of Art was opened in 1896 through a combination of private money and the support of Epsom County Council. For a time during the 1920s and 1930s it acted as a secondary school for girls due to a lack of local education provision. The current site was opened in 1973 as the Epsom School of Art and Design. In 1995 it merged with the West Surrey College of Art and Design to form the Surrey Institute of Art and Design which in turn in 2005 merged with the Kent Institute of Art and Design to form the University College for the Creative Arts. In 2008 university status was gained to create the University for the Creative Arts.


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Information about and accessing the collection

The library holds a fledgling special collection that encompasses rare material, fragile pieces, explicit material as well as a large collection of Artists’ Books. The library also holds the archives of the school, stored in the Library office, which includes:

• Minutes of the Academic Board and Governors meetings from 1943 to the present day.

• A selection of prospectuses and course timetables from 1896-1990.

• Building information including blueprints and plans of the original and current sites.

• Exhibition catalogues and publications covering the entire history of the Epsom campus.

• A collection of marketing and publicity material including copies of newspapers and periodicals showing advertisements and press. There is also a large collection of press cuttings.

• A plethora of information concerning administration, personnel and finances.


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The ‘Climax’ system for cutting gentlemen’s clothes

This is a rare pattern-cutting guide for menswear signed by the authors Legatt and Hodgkinson was kindly donated by Mr & Mrs Noble. Featuring the ‘Climax’ system of pattern cutting, this 7th Edition includes a number of new diagrams. Divided into 16 parts, each section focuses on a different garment (e.g. trousers, vests, naval uniform, etc.) with practical guidelines on how to create patterns. This book will be of particular use to Fashion students with an interest in pattern cutting and those interested in the history of dress and patternmaking as a craft.

Climax system for cutting gentleman’s garments (7th Edition). London: Minister & Co, Ltd.


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This recently established and developing collection features books published by ‘Four Corners Books’, ‘Weproductions’, ‘Book works’, ‘Upper Playground’, ‘Analogue Books’ and includes self published books. So far the collection spans 1987 to the present day.


This collection includes the award winning ‘Illiers Combray’ by Helen Douglas and Zoe Irvine, and the wonderfully titled ‘Three Songs and a Camper Van’ by John Bently (Liver & Lights No.36).

Of particular note: ‘Four Corners Books’ edition of ‘Dracula’ with it’s yellow clothbound cover echoing the first UK edition - the designer, John Morgan utilized particular typefaces to denote diary entries, letters and newspaper cuttings to reinforce the different layers of story telling.

The collection is intended to demonstrate the diverse and creative nature of artists’ books from the colour photocopied ‘Zine’ to fine laser cut work , to the lavishly produced John Warwiker’s - ‘The Floating World’.

All have a unique view of the world and the information they represent.


The collection is available to all members of the University; it is held behind the scenes and is included in the library catalogue. All material is for reference use only. To access any items please ask at the Information Point.

Nicholson, Mike. (2008). Common Senses : 1 to 5. Ensixteen Editions.


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Nicholson, Mike. (2008). Common Senses : 1 to 5. Ensixteen Editions.

The University LibrarySpecial Collections GuideFarnham

contentspageone Audio Visual Animation Collection

pagetwo Rare Books Collection


pagefour Bookroom Artists’ Book Collection

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Audio Visual Animation Collection


The Library’s Off-Air recording service started in the mid 1970s. Animation was first offered as a specialism on the photography and film courses and became a degree in its own right in 1980. This richness of this collection also supports animation research. Library and Learning Services department is now digitally streaming off-air recordings, and they are available on demand via a computer interface to the UCA community.

Information about the collection:

There are over 800 animated feature films and shorts on VHS video tapes and DVD. Recordings are now captured on e-stream. Highlights include a nearly complete Four-Mations series (Channel 4); Animation Now (BBC 2), Dope Sheet (Channel 4),

and Animation on 4 (Channel 4). The Collection includes films by experimental filmmakers; Len Lye, Ladislas Starewicz, Jan Svankmajer, Hans Richter, Oskar Fischinger. Cartoons and commercial productions from Aardman to anime and manga are also featured. The collection complements the holdings of the Animation Research Centre Archive.


The collection is available to members of the University only. Pre-1989 material is held behind the Information Desk. Post-1989 is available to be loaned out on the second floor of the Library.


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A selection of books from the Farnham Rare Books collection.


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The collection has been formed from the original acquisitions of the founding organizations of Farnham College – the Farnham School of Art (founded 1866) and Guildford School of Art (founded 1857), and is supplemented through those of the succeeding organizations, the West Surrey College of Art and Design (formed through merger in 1969), The Surrey Institute of Art and Design (formed through merger in 1995), the University College for the Creative Arts (formed through merger in 2005) and the University for the Creative Arts. Further purchases of antiquarian interest were made by Martin Shuttleworth, the Librarian, during his tenure in the 1980s.


The Farnham Library holds an eclectic range of rare books including textiles, architecture, painting, sculpture, ceramics and glass. It also has items by and about the art and social critic John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), and some limited, but significant titles about the designer and artist William Morris (1834 – 96).

Areas covered in the textiles collection include nineteenth-century works on textile design, textile printing, carpets and rugs, dyeing and weaving techniques, costume and also some texts on lace and silk.

There are architectural works on British and European architecture, architectural history, interior design (including plasterwork and wallpaper design), architects and also some topographical volumes.

Art history and works on various artists, William Hogarth, Elisabeth Frink, Gustave Dore, Paul Outerbridge, Albrecht Durer, Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Lavery and Pablo Picasso are included in the collection.

Ceramics are covered regarding English pottery and Far Eastern ware, and there are various works on glass (general titles, Japanese glass and stained glass


The majority of the collection is divided between the Archive and Main Collection of the Farnham Library at Falkner Road. Those contained within the Archive Collection are accessible via prior arrangement with the Farnham Library Manager, and those in the Main Collection after visitor registration at the Information Desk. Items are not available for loan, but photocopies may be made for some material. Please ask staff for advice on the latter.

Some of the collection is housed in an off-site store, and sufficient notice is needed for material to be consulted.

Von Boehn, Max. (1927). Modes and manners of the Nineteenth century: volume 1. London: J.M Dent.


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Artists’ Books Collection


Farnham’s Artists’ Books Collection’s origins began in 2009 when it consisted primarily of titles arising from recommendations of teaching staff., particularly the Fine Art department. Over the intervening years, the Library has taken on both a developmental and curatorial role and the collection has evolved to try and reflect the profile of the courses taught at this campus. The collection supports teaching, learning and research in this area.


There are over 90 titles in Farnham’s Artists’ Books Collection and it includes many inventive and unusual books. As well as being of interest to students of fine art, illustration, photography, graphic and book design, the collection also includes inspirational examples of unusual narrative structure, expressing an idea in three-dimensional form and using text or typography.

Items in the collection include books produced by artists (Breakdown by Michael Landy, After the Freud Museum by Susan Hiller, Marriage of Reason and Squalor (signed copy) by Jake Chapman), examples of unusual book formats (The word and its inhabitants (box of playing cards) by Paul Lincoln ,London Primrose

Hill (flipbook) by Dettmer Otto), books published by the specialist press (ERR by David Shrigley and published by Bookworks), illustrated works of fiction (Jane Eyre by Paula Rego), exhibition catalogues with distinctive format(Blood on Paper, V & A (box of loose leaf reproductions of artists’ works) and privately printed artists’ books (Entrata by Lucy Harrison). UCA staff work in the collection includes the Observer’s Book of Dogs by Andy Malone, Hokey Cokey by Ruth Martin and An Ideal Home by Rob McDonald. The collection complements the holdings of the Bookroom Artists’ Books Collection.


The collection is accessible for group visits by arrangement between the course tutor and the Library Manager. In the case of individual access, users need to speak to a member of the library staff to arrange this. They will unlock the cabinet and issue books to the user’s library card. Books in the cabinet are arranged in A-Z suffix order (that is by the first 3 letters, usually of the author’s name, as indicated on the catalogue record).Books are reference only and cannot be borrowed.

Martin, Ruth. The Hokey Cokey (1st verse). London : Ruth Martin, [2005].


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The Bookroom research cluster, based in Farnham, and formed in 2004 by Professor Anna Fox and Emmanuelle Waeckerle from the Photography department focuses on critical and practice based research into the photographic book and the printed page. The cluster which includes members of staff from Design and Photography departments has taken as its theme the way in which the book, the magazine page and other printed or digital works have provided a vehicle for the dissemination of photographic, graphic and text based works, posing a number of key issues about design, structure and editorial control, and evolving in parallel with more conventional publishing such as monographs and illustrated books. The artists’ books collection is only one strand of activity from the research cluster which also includes a website (www.thebookroom.net), study days and book fairs, an internship with the library and its own printing press. Bookroom has also been involved in the development of the UCA MA in Book Art and Publishing.


The Bookroom has a growing collection of bookworks from graduating photography students and research cluster members. It has a strong identity, based on the cluster’s ethos and is a valuable teaching and learning resource for students, active UCA based

and external researchers. The books are exhibited at a number of international artists’ book fairs and work has been sold to important collections including the British Library and the Women’s Library. At March 2011, there are over 95 titles in the permanent collection housed in the library, including Photography and memory by David Rule (An investigation into the subject of photography and memory, collated as 76 distinct tasks or instructional experiments), Les deux vierges de Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, douze vues by Emmanuelle Waeckerle (a series of photographs taken over the course of a year of the same views of the virgin of Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche), 41 Hewitt Road by Anna Fox (this focuses on the interiors of the house in Haringey, North London, where Anna Fox lived with her family and a series of lodgers) and Go Away Closer by Dayanita Singh (a novel without words, concerning a series of opposites in India: presence and absence, reality and dreams, tradition and progress).


Access to the collection is supervised and it is reference only. Group visits can be arranged between the course tutor and the Bookroom library placement student/photography interns. Their contact details are available from the Library helpdesks. Individual access can be arranged in the same way and an appointment made with the intern. At present, access is restricted to one day a week. Books in the cabinet are arranged in A-Z suffix order (that is by the first 3 letters, usually of the author’s name, as indicated on the catalogue record). Images of the books, together with captioned description, have also been uploaded to the Bookroom website.

Waeckerle, Emmanuelle. (2009). Empire State building. Farnham : BookRoom.

The University LibrarySpecial Collections GuideMaidstone

contentspageone Antiquarian books & small press collections

pagetwo Artists’ Film & Video Collection



pagefive Bande Dessinee Collection

pagesix Tessa Boffin Archive

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Antiquarian books and small press collections at Maidstone


The collection of antiquarian books includes rare or valuable books (Polygraphice: or the arts of drawing, by William Salmon) and important first editions (Les mots en liberté Futuristes by F.T. Marinetti) and illustrates the development of bookbinding and the printing process.

The Maidstone Press collection includes work produced by Illustration and Printmaking students at Maidstone (35 illustrated proverbs and Eye-sore: disconnected verses), exhibition catalogues from the George Rodger Gallery exhibition catalogues including work by staff who have taught at the University. The Private Press Collection provides some excellent and unusual examples of traditional bookmaking and bookbinding techniques. The collection includes books produced by local and national private presses (Vision of Wat Tyler by Graham Clarke) as well as books designed and printed at Maidstone College of Art (The Mabinogion: Branwen, Daughter of Llyr – a new translation by Gwyn and Thomas Jones).


The collection consists of over 150 items from 1564 to the present day.


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Artists Film and Video collection at Maidstone


This is a collection of video art, experimental film and artists’ videos that has been acquired on recommendations from the teaching staff, many of which are practising artists themselves. One of the most important resources is Surveying the first decade, an excellent compilation of US video art from the late sixties to 1980. The collection also consists of work by Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, Stan Brakhage, Michael Snow, as well as work by teaching staff themselves (Professors Andrew Kotting and Nicky Hamlyn).


This collection consists of over 200 items ranging from work produced in the 1920’s to the present day.

Frank, Robert. (2008). The Complete Film Works, Vols, 1-3, Gottingen: Steidl.


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Artists’ Books collection at Maidstone


The artists’ books collection includes many inventive or unusual books. As well as being of interest to students of book design, the collection also includes inspirational examples of unusual narrative structure, expressing an idea in three-dimensional form and using text / typography. Items in the collection include books produced by artists (What have I done by Douglas Gordon), examples of unusual book formats

(Half a sandwich / the other half by Emily Martin) and privately printed artists’ books (Thirty people: observed and recreated by John Bently”). Student work in the collection includes books produced by Illustration and Graphic Design students (A Manchester sketchbook by Michael Sheehy) and examples of student magazines (Viz, Blackarrot).

Martin, Ruth. Chip Shop Choices. London: Ruth Martin, (2009). Martin, Ruth. The Hokey Cokey (1st verse). London: Ruth Martin, (2005).


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Bande Dessinee collection at Maidstone


The Bande Dessinée collection consists mainly of contemporary French illustration, as well as classic and cutting-edge comic strips. The collection includes interesting examples of visual narrative / stories without words (La digue by Vincent Fortemps), experimental combinations of text and image (Roma 44 by Pierre Janneau) and examples of artists’ sketchbooks / notebooks (My way by Silex). The latter have been very useful for students who are putting together learning journals.

The collection also has examples of contemporary children’s book illustration (Dizzy Moon by Eric Lasserre and Elodie Houyelle, Le Petit Chaperon Rouge by Susanne Janssen).


The collection consists of around 32 items ranging from 1996 to the present day.

Matthys, Michael. (2007). La Ville Rouge, Brussels: Fremok.


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Tessa Boffin was a lecturer in the photography department of the university up until her death in 1992. As a photographer and performance artist, her artistic practice developed around Gay and Lesbian culture, producing work in response to HIV/AIDS. She co-curated the exhibition Ecstatic Antibodies: Resisting the AIDS Mythology and produced a book of the same title. This archive contains her private collection of books, postcards, images, teaching, research and biographical material as well as original photographs.


The archive dates from 1980 to 1992 and consists of books, journals, photographs, ephemera and biographical material.

Boffin, Tessa. & Fraser, Jean. (1991). Stolen glances : lesbians take photographs. London : Pandora.

The University LibrarySpecial Collections GuideRochester

contentspageone Blue Folders Collection Karen Millen Collection

pagetwo Fashion Slides

pagethree Medway College of Design Archive

pagefour Microfiche Collection

pagefive Student’s Sketchbook Collection

pagesix Stuart Aitken Research Files

pageseven Urban Fox Press

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The collection can be accessed by asking at the Information Desk during Library opening hours.

Blue folders Karen Millen collection


Acquired from the Karen Millen fashion company, these catwalk images, mainly from Paris, London, Milan and New York fashion houses were used to develop womenswear and accessories trend directions.


The collection comprises of 66 volumes dating from Autumn/Winter 02-3 to Autumn/Winter 06-7.


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Fashion slides


They were acquired from Tony Glenville, formerly course leader for Fashion Promotion who also provides the information about their provenance. In his work as a fashion journalist reporting on international fashion collections, Tony had enjoyed a long collaboration with the fashion photographer Chris Moore, who is responsible for the majority of the slides. Kim Weston-Arnold’s work is also represented.


The slides are arranged alphabetically by the name of the designer/fashion house. An index, containing about 200 names, is available from the Library Counter.


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There has been an art school in Medway since 1886 when The Government School of Art was founded. It became Medway College of Art in 1952 and later Medway College of Design. In 1987 Medway College of Design merged with art colleges in Maidstone and Rochester and became part of the Kent Institute of Art and Design (KIAD). In 2005 the partnership with Surrey Institute of Art and Design created the University College for the Creative Arts and became the University for the Creative Arts in 2008.


The archive at Rochester library holds material covering most of the college’s life, and changes. The collection includes:

• A wide range of prospectuses from 1928 onwards and includes the occasional art work produced as a publication during the early years – e.g. The Gaffer’s Masterpiece February 1936

• College and course information, including annual reports, award ceremonies and desk diaries

• Student Fashion shows

• Exhibition catalogues from student shows and the KIAD Update Magazine 1991-1997.

• Press cuttings books dating from 1962, as well as many photographs from the early years from both College and from Library.

• 100 years of Medway College of design, 1986

Microfiche collection


The collection includes images from Heal’s Catalogues, Liberty’s Catalogues, Design Centre Selection, Henry Dreyfuss Archive, Paquin & Worth Fashion Drawings, Fashion Update, London College of Fashion Designer Files, Swinging Sixties, Jewellery Gallery (V&A), Theatre Costume Design in the V&A, Local & Traditional Costumes in the V&A, Visual Catalogue of Fashion & Costume in the V&A, and two smaller sets: Design Council – Plastics and Rubber, and From Manet to Toulouse-Lautrec – French lithographs in the British Museum.


The microfiche, mostly from the 1980’s are of art, design and costume images.


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Student’s sketchbook collection


This collection was donated to the Library in 2008 by tutor Nick Tidnam, RBA. It comprises 17 sketchbooks dating from 1951-1962, created by students studying at the then Medway College of Art. Students include Linda Harper, Susan Cooke, J. Clarke, J. Blundell, Margaret Batchelor, Susan Wallace, M. Wight, R. Hopkins and G. Carpenter. Several sketchbooks are undated and not attributable.


The sketchbooks are in varying sizes from A3 upwards, and contain sketches and watercolours, life drawing work, landscapes, portraits and still life. Many of the artworks feature studies of the Rochester, Chatham and surrounding Medway areas, with pictures of local buildings and views, reflecting the practice of working on-site which continues today. The sketchbooks are currently housed with the other archive materials relating to the history of Medway College of Art and its successor institutions.

Evidence of Study : Examinations in art, 1954 : Examination Number 460 (Examination : Intermediate, Craft : Wood Engraving); Rochester : Medway College of Art (1954).


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Collated notes and information, illustrated with sketches, compiled from research in fashion design undertaken over many years by Stuart Aitken, a member of teaching staff at Rochester since the early 1960s.


Contents are as follows: Architecture of Clothing: Draped and tailored concepts; Clothing 300AD to 1900AD. Body shape, movement, concept of functional clothing, the woven concept; the knitted concept; the non-woven concept. Architecture of Fashion: Modern period; Worth, Poiret, Chanel, Vionnet, Dior, Charles James, Cardin, Balenciaga, The Balenciaga School. Postmodern period; Claire McCardell, Bonnie Cashin, Jean Muir, Issey Miyake, The Japanese School.

Aitken, Stuart. Stuart Aitken research file : Architecture of fashion, the modern period, book two.


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Urban Fox Press


Founded by Dave Wise in Chatham in 2003, Urban Fox Press was a community arts organization that grew out of a growing frustration with the lack of outlets for the area’s painters, writers, poets, musicians and photographers. Urban Fox brought together artists and musicians from across Medway and gave them a platform to perform, exhibit and have their work published.

The Press produced high-quality low-print run books of work by local artists and writers, including Billy Childish, Wolf Howard, Sexton Ming, Bill Lewis, Zara Carpenter, Katherine May, Joe Machine, Michael Curtis, The Medway Mermaids and David Wise. Most of their books feature covers hand-made and hand-stamped with woodcuts by Billy Childish.

Creative and educational workshops in painting, writing, photography, music and the art of self-publishing were organized with local schools, as was the annual Medway Festival Fringe.

Urban Fox ceased their activities in 2008, but the artists (David Wise, Karl Farrer, Wolf Howard, Billy Childish and Zara Carpenter) continue their practice.


The collection provides students with inspiration about the creative and cultural background of the region in which they are studying and comprises of 15 titles published between 2003 and 2006.

Wise, David. (2004). The Arts in Medway : volume 1, the Medway scene. Chatham : Urban Fox Press. A selection of books from the Urban Fox Press.

A selection of books from the Urban Fox Press.

The University LibrarySpecial Collection Periodicals

contentspageone Accessing the Collections

pagetwo Architectural Review

pagethree Audio Arts Magazine

pagefour British Design & Art Direction

pagefive The Burlington Magazine

pagesix Gazette des Beaux Arts at Farnham

pageseven The Penrose Annual

pageeight The Picture Post

pagenine Typographica

pageten Vogue

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SAccessing the collections

Unless outlined specifically in this guide, material is shelved at the following locations.

Canterbury – Journal shelves, the Rare Books Collection and the Herbert Read Collection. Ask at the Information Desk to see this material.

Epsom – The general shelves, Back Wall journal collection

Farnham – Main collection, journal shelves, main library archive and off site store. Sufficient notice should be given to the Farnham Library Manager to enable consultation within the main library.

Maidstone – Journal shelves, the Annuals section and Silent Study area.

Rochester – library counter, Quiet Study Room and archive ask at the Information Desk to see this material.

To find specific holdings information

Due to the age and rarity of this material, some titles may be incomplete. To check the exact holdings and location for a specific title use the Library catalogue. http://librarycatalogue.ucreative.ac.uk


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SArchitectural Review at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham and Maidstone


The Architectural Review: a magazine for the artist, archaeologist, designer and craftsman was first published in November 1896. It covered art and architecture at home and globally gained a reputation for being an authoritative and well respected source of information which it still holds today. This provides an invaluable historical perspective on architecture.


Collections are held at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham and Maidstone, and between them hold an incomplete run of issues from 1879- present.

The Art Union and Art Journal at Canterbury, Farnham and Rochester


The Art Union was a society established in 1836 to give encouragement to artists. The annual subscription fee of one guinea gave the subscriber a chance to win a prize in the scheme and the society helped to foster a taste for art in Victorian Britain.

The Art Union magazine 1839-1848 was first published as a publication “exclusively devoted to the interests of Artists and the Arts” and “to supply to artists accurate and useful information upon all subjects in which they

are interested, and to the public the means of justly ascertaining and estimating the progress of Art, both at home and abroad”. The publication proved successful at a time when art was gaining in popularity and was renamed Art Journal in 1849 and continued until 1912.


The Art Union 1839-1848

Canterbury holds bound copies 1839 -1848 and three issues of the Art Union Prize Annual dated 1846, 1847 and [1848]. These publications contain engravings of pictures and sculpture purchased by the London Art Union during that year.

The Art Journal 1849-1912

Canterbury, Farnham and Rochester between hold a run from 1849-1907.

Audio Arts Magazine at Canterbury


The cassette-magazine: Audio Arts is a sound archive of artists’ voices and sound art. It was founded by William Furlong in 1973, and ran continuously and regularly for 35 years. Its publication was an integral part of Furlong’s art practice as he considers the magazine to be a monumental, collaborative social sculpture.


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Audio Arts features in-depth recordings of many of the most important artists in Britain, Europe and the United States; from the conceptual art and the new sculpture of the early 1970s, through to the object sculpture of the 1980s, the revival of painting in the 1980s and the Young British Artists phenomena of the late 1990s, and international art in the opening years of this century. The Archive also contains coverage of the Venice Biennales since the late 1970s, all the major Documentas, and other international exhibitions and events. It is also a significant holding of sound art projects, and contains all of the original recordings of Furlong’s own sound art projects.

Information and access to the collection

Vol 1(1) October 1973 – Vol. 21(2) 2003 (incomplete) are on cassette. They are stored in the Library Manager’s Office. For access, ask at the Information Desk. Audio Arts Magazine Vol. 21(3&4) 2003 – Vol. 25 2007 are on CD and can be found on the shelves in the Audio Visual collection. It is also possible to access many of the recordings at the Tate website. www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/audioarts

A selection of issues of Audio Arts Magazine.


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S British Design and Art Direction/ D&AD Annual and D&AD Student Annual at Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester


The Designers & Art Directors Association was founded in 1962 by a group of London-based designers and art directors including David Bailey, Terence Donovan, Alan Fletcher, and Colin Forbes. The group was dedicated to celebrating creative communication, and rewarding its practitioners and raising standards throughout the design and advertising industries. From the start it published annuals in support of its annual awards, thus producing a unique archive of outstanding work representative of industry trends and contemporary concerns. The unique ‘yellow pencil’ award was later augmented in 2000 with a ‘black pencil’ which indicated an even higher standard of achievement.

In 1977 Sir John Hegarty launched the Student Awards, and this bridged the gap between college and work, giving students real briefs to tackle.

Throughout the first twenty years the work reflects mainly the British perspective, but from the eighties and onwards a much more international feel emerged, and by 1999 the annual was renamed the D&AD Annual. The eighties also saw the addition of the first video showreel to accompany the annual, and in 1987 the work was produced in full colour.

Digital categories were first introduced in 1997, and with the turn of the millennium the awards became so internationally based that in 2007 the annual was designed for the first time outside the UK and the showreel moved online.

Information about this collection

Collections are held at Epsom, Farnham and Maidstone, and between them hold the annuals for the years 1965 – 76, 1978 – to the present. Collections of the D&AD Student Annual are held at Epsom, Farnham and Maidstone, and between them they hold the annuals for the years 2000 – 2007.

A selection of D&AD annuals.


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SThe Burlington Magazine at Canterbury, Epsom and Farnham


The Burlington Magazine is the world’s leading monthly publication devoted to the fine and decorative arts. It is both an enduring work of reference and a running commentary on the art world of today. In addition to editorials on current topics, it features authoritative reviews of important books and major exhibitions, and the monthly Calendar is the best available guide to art events throughout the world.

Founded in 1903 by a group of art historians and connoisseurs that included Roger Fry, Bernard Berenson and Herbert Horne, The Burlington Magazine has appeared monthly without interruption ever since. Their aim was to cover all aspects of the fine and decorative arts, to combine rigorous scholarship with critical insight, and to treat the art of the present with the same seriousness as

the art of the past. The Magazine’s editors have included two of the twentieth century’s most important art critics – Roger Fry and Herbert Read – two directors of the National Gallery – Charles Holmes and Neil MacGregor – and the pioneer scholar of the Caravaggesque movement – Benedict Nicolson.


Collections are held at Canterbury, Epsom and Farnham and between they have an incomplete run from 1903 – present.


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SGazette des Beaux Arts at Farnham


La Gazette des Beaux Arts was a French art review founded in 1859 by Edouard Houssaye and edited by Charles Blanc. It ceased in 2002 after the death of Daniel Wildenstein, whose family had bought the magazine in 1928. It provides an invaluable reference to nearly 150 years of art history.


The collection at Farnham covers an incomplete run of volumes 74 (1969) to 113 (1989).

Magazine of Art at Canterbury, Epsom, Maidstone and Rochester


The Magazine of Art was published in London and New York from 1878 – 1904. It is a richly illustrated publication, edited by English art and literary critic M.H. Spielmann. Coverage includes poetry, architecture, the decorative arts and Victorian art in the form of exhibition reviews, articles about artists and their works.


Collections are held at Canterbury, Epsom, Maidstone and Rochester. Between them they have an incomplete run from 1884 - 1903.

A Selection of issues of Magazine of Art.


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SThe Penrose Annual at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham and Maidstone


The Penrose Annual was a London-based review of graphic arts, printed nearly annually from 1895 to 1982. It started in 1895 as Process Work Yearbook, and was printed by Lund Humphries from 1897, who were responsible for content since 1906. The Annual owed its birth to a partnership between two very different men: William Gamble, journalist and entrepreneur, and A.W. Penrose, a Clerkenwell chemist. They joined up in 1893, opening the Photo Process Stores for supplying process engravers. They became the sole British agents for Max Levy’s screen process which sparked off the half-tone revolution, and consequently made their fortunes.

Initially it was a house publication and largely a catalogue for in-house lines. By 1896 it had already been subtitled Penrose’s Annual, and by 1898 it was also called A Review of the Graphic Arts. Its success rested on Gamble’s ability to write readably about technical innovation, and communicate contemporary graphics using the fashionable designers of the day.

In the 1930s notable authors included Beatrice Warde, Stanley Morison, Moholy

Nagy, and Nikolaus Pevsner. William Gamble died in 1933 and Richard B. Fishenden became the editor in 1934. He was expert in both photographic and typographic processes and throughout his rigorous editorship the Annual became most influential as an exponent of both arts and techniques. For the first time, Penrose named its designers, and they turned out to be enterprising people such as Jan Tschichold and Francis Meynell. During the Second World War it was not published, but Fishenden resumed publication in 1949 until his death in 1956.

There were then a series of editors and designers, including Allan Delafons, until 1964 when Herbert Spencer took over. His stay of ten years placed Penrose in an increasingly authoritative position. He introduced a modernist approach. After Spencer’s departure in 1973, there were a succession of other editors and a change in publisher to the Thomson Organisation (although it was still printed by Lund Humphries), before it ceased publication in 1982.


Collections are held at Epsom, Farnham and Maidstone. Between them they have an incomplete run from 1889 – 1978/79. Canterbury has Vol. 43 1949 in the Herbert Read Collection

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The Picture Post at Epsom, Farnham and Rochester


Picture Post was first published in October 1938 with the tile of Hulton’s National Weekly. This British publication pioneered photojournalism at a time when picture stories in newspapers were rare. By 1940 it was selling 1.5 million copies a week. The magazine ran for 19 years until June 1957. The photographic archive created by this paper formed the Hulton Picture Library, established by Sir Edward Hulton. This valuable resource is available through Getty Images and Education Image Gallery. This collection reflects the social history of Britain in its picture stories.


The incomplete collections at Epsom, Farnham and Rochester span the entire life of this journal from 1938 – 1957.

The Studio and Studio International at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester


The Studio: an illustrated magazine of fine and applied art was first published in 1893 as a response to the need for ‘an intelligent appreciation of the Fine and Applied Arts’. The magazine explored all art forms including architecture, landscape, photography, embroidery, painting, sketching, sculpture and interior design, with contributions from many well known artists and experts in their field; Edward Burne-Jones, Henry Moore and William Morris. Changing its name to Studio International in 1964, it was published successfully for over a hundred years until 1988.


These journals are held at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham and Maidstone, and between them have an incomplete run of issues for the entire life of this journal from 1893 to 1988.

At Canterbury there are also 24 volumes of the The Studio Special Number dated from 1894 – 1997 covering examples subjects JMW Turner, Gardens of England, Design for the Ballet, Arts and Crafts, Setting and Costume of the Modern Stage, and Crafts for Children. There is also The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art from 1908 – 1979 providing a definitive source of information on decorative styles through the ages.

Designs for cloth book-covers (Competition B II.), The Studio, Volume XI. (1897), PP. 136-37.

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STypographica at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham and Maidstone


Typographica was first published in 1949 by Lund Humphries and was edited by influential communication and typography designer Herbert Spencer. The collection is bound in 4 volumes and spans both the ‘Old’ and ‘New’ series. Whilst it is not a complete collection it does reflect the avant-garde thinking and experimentation taking place in typographic design in the 1950s and 60s when it was published. This primary source material is essential for those researching graphic communication and typography from the late 1940’s to the late 1960’s.


The incomplete collections at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham and Maidstone span the entire life of this journal from 1949 – 1967.

A selection of issues of Typographica.

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SVogue at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester


The British Edition of Vogue was launched in 1916 where it began as an Anglicised version of the American publication until the 1920’s. During the twentieth century, the magazine developed to into one of most influential fashion magazines in the world. Its coverage includes fashion, lifestyle and celebrities. Vogue (UK) provides a definitive source of information on post-war British fashion.


The incomplete collections at all the UCA libraries span the entire life of the UK edition of this journal from 1916 to present. The earliest period 1916 – 1939 is on microfiche at the Rochester library.

At Epsom there are also 9 volumes of Vogue Pattern (Books) published as a supplement to British version of Vogue, dating from 1953 – 1985. In addition the library also has a collection of Vogue Bambini (1992-); L’Uomo Vogue (1984 - ); Vogue Paris (1989- ) and Vogue Italia (1994- ).

At Rochester, the Library has copies of American Vogue 1969- , French Vogue 1966-1974 (incomplete), 1975- , German Vogue 1991- , Hommes International 1984-2008 (incomplete), L’Uomo Vogue 1972- , Italian Vogue 1968- , Spanish Vogue 1990- , Vogue Bambini 1978 – August 2006 and Vogue Australia 1989-1999 (incomplete), Vogue Men’s miscellaneous journals 1965-1992.

Vogue microfiche collection at Rochester

The microfiche collection comprises of a complete set of English Vogue magazines from 1916 to 1939, reproduced in black & white. There is a microfiche reader in the library.

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