August 2, 2011

New Books for Late Summer

We list these new books with heavy hearts, mourning the sudden loss of our colleague and friend Keith Zimmer.  If you would like to check out any of them, just put a Request on them and pick them up at any of our branches.

Art History / Design / Craft

Altered and Adorned:  Using Renaissance Prints in Daily Life  by Suzanne K. Schmidt

The Andy Goldsworthy Project (National Gallery of Art, Washington)  by Molly Donovan

Artists’ Magazines:  An Alternative Space for Art  by Gwen Allen

Contemporary Art in Asia: A Critical Reader 

Gabriel Metsu  by Adriaan E. Waiboer

Graphic Style:  From Victorian to New Century  by Steven Heller and Seymour Chwast

Lee Krasner:  A Biography  by Gail Levin

The Modern Eye:  Stieglitz, MoMA, and the Art of the Exhibition, 1925-1934  by Kristina Wilson

Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus,  exhibition catalog from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Secret History of the First U. S. Mint:  How Frank H. St3ewart Destroyed and then Saved a National Treasure  by Joel J. Orosz

Seductive Subversion:  Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968

The Steins Collect:  Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, exhibition catalog from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Walls that Speak:  The Murals of John Thomas Biggers  by Olive Jensen Thiesen

Wisdom Embodied:  Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 
Architecture / Planning / Landscape Design

Rietveld’s Universe,  exhibition catalog from the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands


Photography

Annie Leibovitz at Work  by Annie Leibovitz

Photography Degree Zero:  Reflections on Roland Barthes’s “Camera Lucida”


Music

Arnold Schoenberg  by Bojan Bujic

The Ballad of Bob Dylan  by Daniel Mark Epstein

Women of Influence in Contemporary Music:  Nine American Composers  edited by Michael K. Slayton


Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

The Last Silent Picture Show:  Silent Films on American Screens in the 1930s  by William M. Drew

Soul Searching:  Black-Themed Cinema from the March on Washington to the Rise of Blaxploitation  by Christopher Sieving