New Item List, February, 2005
Check out all our new material. These are selections we have either recently purchased or received as gifts.
Architecture
Content; Rem Koolhaus
Art – General
Arcadia and Metropolis: masterworks of German Expressionism from the Nationalgalerie Berlin
Piero Manzoni
Do it
The undressed art : why we draw
Drawing and painting hands & feet
Plop : recent projects of the Public Art Fund
Paul McCarthy
Art, performance, media : 31 interviews
The artist’s reality : philosophies of art by Mark Rothko
Transgressions : the offences of art
Monument to now : the Dakis Joannou collection
Interventionists : users’ manual for the creative disruption of everyday life
Beautiful losers : essays
CyberArts 2003 : 2003 CyberArts : international compendium Prix Ars Electronica – net vision
The auditory culture reader
New philosophy for new media
Inside the studio : two decades of talks with artists in New York
Art works : money
Art History
Chronophobia: on time in the art of the 1960’s
Lesbian art in America: a contemporary history
A minimal future? : art as object 1958-1968 /dd>
Comic Grotesque : Wit and mockery in German Art
Artists – Contemporary
Red Grooms: the graphic work
Red Grooms
Wondertoonel : Paintings by Mark Ryden
Ray Johnson : how sad I am today—Mike Kelley : minor histories—statements, conversations proposals
Rodney Graham : a little thought
Insult to injury by Jake & Dinos Chapman
Robert Smithson
Candida Hofer : a monograph
Dinh Q. Le : from Vietnam to Hollywood
Cum by Eva & Adele
One Hundred Demons by Linda Barry
Painter among poets : the collaborative art of George Schneeman
Raymond Pettibon
Yes; Yoko Ono
Perceived obstacles by Richard Tuttle
Georg Baselitz
Richard Prince : paintings, photographs
Alfred Leslie: the killing cycle
Artists – Not Contemporary
Arshile Gorky : his life and work
Karel Teige, 1900-1951 : l’enfant terrible of the Czech modernist avant-garde
Antoni Tapies
Hannah Höch : Album
Comic Book Art / Graphic Novels
The Poor Bastard
Phoenix : a tale of the future
The big wheels
The summer of love by Debbie Drechsler
Rent girl
The new Smithsonian book of comic-book stories : from Crumb to Clowes
Ceramics
Color and fire : defining moments in studio ceramics, 1950-2000
Design
Design Discourse
Japanese beauties : vintage graphics 1900-1970
DDR Design : East German design
False flat : why Dutch design is so good
DVD & Video
The weather underground (DVD)
The five obstructions (DVD)
Ikiru: To live (DVD)
Retooling dissent & Surveillance Report : creative resistance at the WEF protests 02-02-02 (VHS)
Matter of heart : the extraordinary journey of C.G. Jung into the soul of man
Bottle Rocket (DVD)
The Rainbow man/ John 3:16 (DVD)
Rules of the game by Jean Renoir (DVD)
Videodrome (DVD)
The night of the hunter (DVD)
Ghost in the shell (DVD)
Summer of the serpent (DVD)
Heaven’s Crossroad (DVD)
International Release (DVD)
Blue velvet (DVD)
American Splendor (DVD)
Blade runner (DVD)
Lost highway (DVD)
How to draw a bunny (DVD)
Twin Peaks : the first season
Down by law (DVD)
International release 2 (DVD)
Classified X (DVD)
Ant Farm video (DVD)
Rivers and tides : Andy Goldsworthy working with time (DVD)
Fahrenheit 451
Dancer in the dark
The Belly of an architect
City of God
Girl with a pearl earring
Film
Animation now!
Video art
History
Before Stonewall: the making of a gay and lesbian community
Soft gold: the fur trade & cultural exchange on the northwest coast of America
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Pacific
Alfred Jacob Miller : artist on the Oregon Trail
Let the sea make a noise—: a history of the North Pacific from Magellan to MacArthur
Literature
Book of my nights : poems by Li-Young Lee
Border of a dream : selected poems of Antonio Machado
The Norton anthology of world literature
The outlaw bible of American literature
The outlaw bible of American poetry
The golden-mouthed : selected poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Boris Pasternak
Opened ground : selected poems by Seamus Heaney
Strike sparks : selected poems by Sharon Olds
Love is a dog from hell : poems by Charles Bukowski
Collected poems, 1947-1980 by Allen Ginsberg
The golden-mouthed: selected poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Boris Pasternak
Painting
Christian Schad and the neue sachlichkeit
Hughie O’Donoghue: painting, memory, myth
Bay Area Figurative Art (1950-1965)
In the beginning was the Word: the power and glory of illuminated Bibles
Artists by Themselves
Orozco in gringoland : the years in New York
Periodicals
Shots
PDN : Photo district news.
Leonardo music journal
Index magazine
Philosophy & Theory
Media semiotics : an introduction
Complexity and postmodernism : understanding complex systems
Regarding the pain of others by Susan Sontag
Photography
Love & lust by Donna Ferrato
No ordinary land : encounters in a changing environment
Todd Hido : roaming : landscape photographs 1994-2004.
The animals by Garry Winogrand
4[pi]R2 by Camille Solyagua
Robbert Flick : trajectories
The photobook : a history
Between past and future : new photography and video from China
Photography : a cultural history
Louise Lawler and others
The architect’s brother by Robert ParkeHarrison
Lighting for Portrait Photography
Immediate family by Sally Mann
Shomei Tomatsu : skin of the nation
Landscape by Toshio Shibata
Hannah Villiger
Atmos by Naoya Hatakeyama
Anna Gaskell
American Pitbull
Nerve: the new nude
Lee Friedlander at work.
Carrie Mae Weems: the Hampton Project
Uncommon places : the complete works by Stephen Shore
David Levinthal, work from 1975-1996
Fashioning fiction in photography since 1990
Popular Culture
The architecture of the visible
Television Studies Reader
Smoke : a global history of smoking
Gender outlaw : on men, women, and the rest of us
Printmaking
Dox Thrash: an African American master printmaker
rediscovered
Howard Hodgkin prints : a catalogue raisonne
Japanese prints during the allied occupation, 1945-1952 : Onchi Koshiro, Ernst Hacker and the First Thursday Society
Sculpture
The figurative sculpture of Magdalena Abakanowicz : bodies, environments, and myths
Donald Judd
Louise Bourgeois : emotions abstracted : Werke
Typography
Typology: type design from the Victorian era to the digital age
Type design : radical innovations and experimentation
Zines
Heads up Penny by Cat Baldwin
Activate forcefield by Billy Mavreas
Monsters for real by Jim Holyoak
The Culture bomb
Slingshot
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