May 18, 2011

Newest Acquisitions, mid-May 2011

We've had a few technical difficulties during the installation of the library's brand new catalog and circulation system, but some new books have made it through!  All our circulating books can still be requested and sent to any of our branches.


Art History / Design / Craft

The Art of Maynard Dixon  by Donald J. Hagerty

Art and Activism:  Projects of John and Dominique de Menil

Chinati:  The Vision of Donald Judd  by Marianne Stockebrand

Collector without Walls:  Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best  by Sara Campbell

Frieda Kahlo:  Face to Face  by Judy Chicago with Frances Borzello

Gray Collection:  Seven Centuries of Art, exhibition catalog from the AIC

Italian Ironwork:  Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neo-Classical  by Guilio Ferrari

Montana:  Claude Montana, Fashion Radical  by Marielle Cro

Oxford Concise Dictionary of Art Terms  by Michael Clarke

Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting:  Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland

Venice:  Canaletto and His Rivals  by Charles Beddington

War Posters:  Weapons of Mass Communication  by James Aulich

William De Morgan:  Arts and Crafts Potter  by Rob Higgins


Architecture / Planning / Landscape Design

Architecture of the Sun:  Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970  by Thomas S. Hines

The Artful Garden:  Creative Inspiration for Landscape Design  by James Van Sweden

Cemeteries  by Keith Eggener

Frank Lloyd Wright’s S. C. Johnson Research Tower  by Mark Hertzberg and Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer

Manhattan Skyscrapers, 3rd edition,  by Eric P. Nash

Sears Homes of Illinois  by Rosemary Thornton

Tadao Ando, 1995-2010  by Francesco Dal Co

Tipi:  Heritage of the Great Plains, exhibition catalog from the Brooklyn Museum

The Tropical Modern House  by Raul A. Barreneche


Music

Dangdut Stories:  A Social and Musical History of Indonesia’s Most Popular Music  by Andrew N. Weintraub

The Words and Music of Joni Mitchell  by James Bennighof


Photography

Ghosts of the Black Chamber:  Experimental, Dada, and Surrealist Photography, 1918-1948  by Candice Black

Image Makers Image Takers  by Anne-Celine Jaeger

Starburst:  Color Photography in America, 1970-1980  by Kevin Moore


Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Horror Noir:  Where Cinema’s Dark Sisters Meet  by Paul Meehan