January 2011 Book Acquisitions

Here are some new books that might help you enjoy the January Thaw. Don't forget, although the department is not open, all of these books can be requested and picked up at our branches. See earlier posts for details if you aren't sure how this works.


Art History / Design

Billy Baldwin: The Great American Decorator by Adam Lewis

Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject by Kirsten Pai Buick

Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea by Daniel Finamore

The Century of Modern Design: The Liliane and David M. Stewart Program for Modern Design by David Hanks

On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, Museum of Modern Art exhibition catalog

Otto Dix: The Art of Life by Philipp Gutbrod

Piero Fornasetti: A Conversation between Philippe Starck and Barnaba Fornasetti by Brigitte Fitoussi

A Laboratory for Art: Harvard’s Fogg Museum and the Emergence of Conservation in America, 1900-1950 by Francesca G. Bewer

A Real Van Gogh: How the Art World Struggles with Truth by Henk Tromp

The Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art


Architecture / Landscape / Planning

The Architecture of Bart Prince: A Pragmatics of Place, revised ed. by Christopher Curtis Mead

Explorations: The Architecture of John Ronan

Frederick Law Olmsted; Essential Texts edited by Robert Twombly

Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities by Witold Rybczynski

On Architecture by Vitruvius (new translation by Richard Schofield)

Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour at Acadia Summer Arts Program by Marion Boulton Stroud


Music

Adolf Busch: The Life of an Honest Musician, Vol. 1 by Tully Potter

Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment edited by Richard Carlin

Bayou Underground: Tracing the Mythical Roots of American Popular Music by Dave Thompson

Jazz Books in the 1990s: An Annoted Bibliography by Janice L. H. Greenberg

Let Freedom Swing: Collected Writings on Jazz, Blues, and Gospel by Howard Reich

Natalie Curtis Burlin: A Life in Native and African American Music by Michelle Wick Patterson

A Peter Seeger Discography: Seventy Years of Recordings by David Dunaway

Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions, 2nd edition edited by Mark Eden Horowitz

Theater / Dance / Movies / TV

At This Theatre: 110 Years of Broadway Shows, Stories & Stars by Robert Viagas

Von Sternberg by John Baxter


Antiques / Collectibles

The Sanders Autograph Price Guide by Richard Saffro

Warman's World War II Collectibles: Identification and Price Guide by Michael E. Haskew

Happy New Year! Here are our most recent acquisitions; you are welcome to check them out by having them sent to one of our branches. For details, see earlier posts.


Art History, Design

Green Interior Design by Lori Dennis

Illuminated Manuscripts of Germany and Central Europe in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Thomas Kren

Joe Jones: Radical Painter of the American Scene [St. Louis Art Museum exhibit]

Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam by Ladan Akbarnia

The Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC [MFA Boston exhibit]

Théodore Géricault by Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer

The Victoria and Albert Museum by Lucy Trench

Willem De Kooning: The Artist’s Materials by Susan F. Lake


Architecture / Planning / Landscape

Acropolis Museum Athens by Bernard Tschumi

Catalogue of the Andrew Alpern Collection of Drawing Instruments by the Avery Architectural Library, Columbia University

Josep Lluis Sert: Fundació Joan Miró

Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities by Witold Rybczynski

Scottish Baronial Castles 1250—1450 by Michael Brown

Stairways by Hans Weidinger

Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White; Art, Architecture, Scandal, and Class in America’s Gilded Age by Mosette Broderick


Photography

Jack London: Photographer by Jeanne Campbell Reesman, et al.

New Orleans 1867: Photographs by Theodore Lilienthal by Gary A. Van Zante


Music

An Illustrated History of Gospel by Steve Turner