December 12, 2011

Mostly Performing Arts

This batch of new arrivals is heavy on the performing arts; take a look...


Art History / Design / Craft

Coast to Coast Album Covers:  Classic Record Art from New York To L. A.  by Graham Marsh

Crafting Modernism:  Midcentury American Art and Design, exhibition catalog from the Museum of Arts and Design

Custom Lettering of the 40’s and 50’s  edited by Rian Hughes


Architecture / Planning / Landscape Architecture

The English Gardening School:  The Complete Master Course...  by Rosemary Alexander


Music

Fire and Rain:  The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970  by David Browne

Out of the Vinyl Deeps:  Ellen Willis on Rock Music  edited by Nona Willis Aronowitz

Movies / Theater / Dance/ TV

The Actor Within:  Intimate Conversations with Great Actors  by Rose Eichenbaum

Conversations with Clint:  Paul Nelson’s Lost Interviews with Clint Eastwood, 1979-1983

Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination:  Georges Melies’s “Trip to the Moon”  edited by Matthew Solomon

Firestorm:  American Film in the Age of Terrorism  by Stephen Prince            

Michael Moore:  Filmmaker, Newsmaker, Cultural Icon  by Matthew H. Bernstein

Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue; Eight Reflections on Cinema  by Murray Pomerance

TARDISbound:  Navigating the Universes of “Doctor Who”  by Piers D. Britton


Antiques / Collectibles

Beatles Memorabilia:  The Julian Lennon Collection by Brian Southall and Julian Lennon

The Unofficial Guide to Harry Potter Collectibles by Kathy J. Wells