page_title: Allan Sekula Library at the Clark Art Institute
hierarchical_section_title: Allan Sekula Library at the Clark Art Institute
caption_attribution_description: English: Aerospace Folktales family volumes
context_page_description: The Allan Sekula Library is an archival and research collection of volumes, which is held in the Library of the Clark Art Institute.
  In 2015, the library of the Clark Art Institute acquired The Allan Sekula Library through the generous gift of the artist's widow, art historian and professor Sally Stein. The library comprises a collection of 15,000 volumes, which were assembled by the artist over the course of his career.
  A thoughtful and thought-provoking artist, photographer, filmmaker, and writer,
  Allan Sekula was equally recognized as a public intellectual, art critic and theoretist, and for the social commentary, criticism, and activism that informed his life and work. Allan was a member of the Photography and Media Program faculty at California Institute of the Arts from 1985 until his death in 2013, and is well remembered as a generous and supportive teacher.
  As installed in the Manton Center Reading Room, The Allan Sekula Library reflects his organization of the books throughout the household spaces and studio.
  Allan organized and displayed his books according to research interest; collecting both rare, classic and current titles as pertinent to his project topic.
context_section_description: The Allan Sekula Library is an archival and research collection of volumes, which is held in the Library of the Clark Art Institute.
  In 2015, the library of the Clark Art Institute acquired The Allan Sekula Library through the generous gift of the artist's widow, art historian and professor Sally Stein.  The library comprises a collection of 15,000 volumes, which were assembled by the artist over the course of his career.
  A thoughtful and thought-provoking artist, photographer, filmmaker, and writer, 
  Allan Sekula (1951-2013) was equally recognized as a public intellectual, art critic and theoretist, and for the social commentary, criticism, and activism that informed his life and work.  Allan was a member of the Photography and Media Program faculty at California Institute of the Arts from 1985 until his death in 2013, and is well remembered as a generous and supportive teacher.
  As installed in the Manton Center Reading Room, The Allan Sekula Library reflects his organization of the books throughout the household spaces and studio. 
  Allan organized and displayed his books according to research interest; collecting both rare, classic and current titles as pertinent to his project topic. As an example, his many volumes on Laos and the Vietnam War were found in close proximity on shelves in the Allan Studio Book Room. Allan researched these topics by including novels, travel guides, language primers, and recipe books, as well as volumes related to political and social analysis. Subjects in his library were never assigned to one shelf; his thought and research processes resulted in shelf order which comingled subjects and demonstrated his cross-references. The titles and shelf order in his studio, study, bedroom and garden shed all exemplify the depth of his investigations into projects concepts.
caption: Several family library volumes (classics in slip cases) referenced in Aerospace Folktales.[2] "Every two weeks a new edition of great literature would arrive. The engineer offered his children a dollar for every book they read."
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