New art and music books for Leap Day, 2012

Yes, it's that once-every-four-years happy day.  Presidential elections and the Summer Olympics are always held on leap years.  Here are some interesting new additions to our collection to celebrate.

Art History / Design

Bookwork:  Medium to Object to Concept to Art  by Garrett Stewart

Florence and Baghdad:  Renaissance Art and Arab Science  by Hans Belting

German Expressionism:  The Graphic Impulse, exhibition catalog from the Museum of Modern Art

The House that Sam Built:  Sam Maloof and Art in the Pomona Valley, 1945-1985  by Harold Nelson

The Moderns:  The Arts in Ireland from the 1900s to the 1970s, exhibition catalog of the Irish Museum of Modern Art

Plains Indian Art:  The Pioneering Work of John C. Ewers

Warhol:  Headlines  by Molly Donovan

  

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Design

Alison & Peter Smithson;  A Critical Anthology  edited by Max Risselada

Edward Durell Stone:  A Son’s Untold Story of a Legendary Architect  by Hicks Stone

Tudoresque:  In Pursuit of the Ideal Home  by Andrew Ballantyne

 

Photography

Alfred Stieglitz:  A Legacy of Light  by Katherine Hoffman

 

Music

Christian Music; A Global History  by Tim Dowley

Evenings at the Opera:  An Exploration of the Basic Repertoire  by Jeffrey Langford

Music of the 1980s  by Thomas Harrison

Rock and Roll Always Forgets;  A Quarter Century of Music Criticism  by Chuck Eddy

Segregating Sound:  Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow  by Karl H. Miller