July 11, 2011

More great books for a hot summer

Art History / Design / Craft

Art and Nature:  Three centuries of Natural History Art from Around the World  by Judith Magee

Contemporary Chinese Art:  Primary Documents  (anthology from the Museum of Modern Art)

How to Read Greek Vases  (guide from the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Picasso by Picasso:  His First Museum Exhibition, 1932  by Tobia Bezzola

Set in Style:  The Jewelry of Van Cliff & Arpels, exhibition catalog from the Cooper-Hewitt museum

Thomas Kinkade:  The Artist in the Mall  edited by Alexis L. Boylan

The Woodcut Artist’s Handbook:  Techniques and Tools for Relief Printmaking, Second Edition  by George A Walker.

Women Building History:  Public Art at the 1893 Columbian Exposition  by Wanda M. Corn


Architecture / Planning / Landscape Design


Allied Works  Architecture  by Brad Cloepfil

Building-in-Time:  From Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion  by Marvin Trachtenberg

Gertrude Jekyll and the Country House Garden  by Judith B. Tankard

Giuseppe Vasi’s Rome:  Lasting Impressions from the Age of the Grand Tour  by James T. Tice

Global Citizen:  The Architecture of Moshe Safdie  by Donald Albrecht

Lost Victorian Britain:  How the Twentieth Century Destroyed the Nineteenth Century’s Architectural Masterpieces  by Gavin Stamp

Rafael Moneo:  Remarks on 21 Works

SANAA Sejima Nishizawa:  New Museum, New York  (Museum Building series)


Photography


Glass House  by James Welling


Music


La Bohème  (Overture Opera Guides)

Danny Elfman’s Batman:  A Film Score Guide  by Janet K. Halfyard

Don Giovanni (Overture Opera Guides)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s The Adventures of Robin Hood:  A  Film Score Guide  by Ben Winters

Glorious Days and Nights:  A Jazz Memoir  photos by Herb Snitzer

The Hollywood Film Music Reader  edited by Mervyn Cooke

Idomeneo (Overture Opera Guides)

Nino Rota:  Music, Film and Feeling  by Richard Dyer

Origins and Development of Musical Instruments  by Jeremy Montagu



Movies / Theater / Dance / TV


Boris Karloff:  More than a Monster.  The Authorised Biography  by Stephen Jacobs

The Dance Claimed Me:  A Biography of Pearl Primus  by Peggy & Murray Schwartz

Glamour in a Golden Age:  Movie Stars of the 1930s  edited by Adrienne L. McLean

Houdini:  Art and Magic  by Brooke Kamin Rapaport

Indie:  An American Film Culture  by Michael Z. Newman

Infamous Players:  A Tale of Movies, The Mob (and Sex)  by Peter Bart

Jane Campion:  Authorship and Personal Cinema  by Alistair Fox

Siren City:  Sound and Source Music in Classic American Noir  by Robert Miklitsch

Weimar Cinema, 1919 – 1933:  Daydreams and Nightmares  (Museum of Modern Art exhibition catalog)

Theatre  by David Mamet