Volume 9, Number 2, May 1987, pp.11-12

Publications/Audio-Visual

The WAAC Resource File, a comprehensive card file system of conservation resources containing over 300 entries covering all areas of conservation. Available for $20 to WAAC members, postage paid, or $25 to non-members. Write to Tatyana Thompson, 4153B 14th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404.

New publications from the Smithsonian Institution Press (Customer Service, P.O. Box 4866, Hampden Station, Baltimore, MD 21211) includes:

Fu, Shen, Glenn D. Lowry and Ann Yonemura From Concept to Context: Approaches to Asian and Islamic Calligraphy. 166 pp. 1986, LC86-45434 $22.50.

Three scholars from the Freer Gallery of Art present fifty-five masterpieces of Chinese, Japanese and Islamic calligraphy and explain their stylistic and cultural contexts.

Deagen, Kathleen Artifacts of the Spanish Colonies of Florida and the Caribbean, 1500-1800. Volume I: Ceramics, Glassware and Beads. 208 pp. 1987. LC86-24772. cloth $35; paper $19.95. A richly illustrated guide to the identification and dating of the material culture of the Spanish circum-Caribbean colonies.