New Item List, May-September 2005

Anthropology
Society against the state: essays in political anthropology
The prehistory of the mind: a search for the origins of art, religion, and science
Icons: Magnets of Meaning
Social Solidarity and the Gift
The anthropology of real life: events in human experience
The gift: imagination and the erotic life of property
Birth of the chess queen: a history

Art-Architecture
Small, medium, large, extra-large: Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rem Koolhaas, and Bruce Mau
Transparent office: Arik Lévy & Vitra for Cartier

Art—Decorative Arts
Forms and feelings: Arik Levy and Pippo Lionni
Facts of life, Pippo Lionni
American Folk: folk art from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
What is Design Today?
General Knowledge
By design: why there are no locks on the bathroom doors in the Hotel Louis XIV, and other object lessons
Strangely familiar: design and everyday life
The Quilts of Gee’s Bend
Women designers in the USA, 1900-2000: diversity and difference : Jacqueline M. Atkins … [et al.]
Recollected work : Mevis & Van Deursen

Art—Drawing, Design, and Illustration
Animal anatomy for artists: the elements of form
Jane Freilicher
365: AIGA year in design.
Joseph Beuys, early drawings
Tank: best of Tank magazine 1998-2000
Transformables, Arik Levy with Ligne Roset
Graphic design: a history
Massive Change
Marks of Exellence: the history and taxonomy of trademarks
Graphic style: from Victorian to digital
A Century of Graphic Design
Graphic Design; a Concise History
Little boy: the arts of Japan’s exploding subculture
Design research: methods and perspectives
The collected drawings of Aubrey Beardsley
Animation art: from pencil to pixel, the history of cartoon, animé and CGI
PosterAnnual 2005

Art – Contemporary
Art/women/California, 1950-2000: parallels and intersections
Looking for a place: the Third International SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 10-December 31, 1999
Art History after Modernism
Vicious, delicious, and ambitious: 20th century women artists
Martin Honert: Werkverzeichnis = catalogue raisonne, 1982-2003
Sue Coe: Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College : the pit-the tragical tale of the rise and fall of a vivisector, and selections from Porkopolis : January 20 to March 11, 2000.
Crosscurrents at century’s end: selections from the Neuberger Berman art collection.
Polly Apfelbaum: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, May 3-July 27, 2003
Race, sex, and gender: in contemporary art

Art—General
Truce: echoes of art in an age of endless conclusions
A Robert Gober lexicon, vol. 1
Roxy Paine: second nature
Kim Sooja: conditions of humanity.
Travel to Double River Island, Yutaka Sone
Artists talk: 1969-1977
Mark Dion
Gwen John and Augustus John
Nils-Udo: art in nature
A trick of the eye: trompe l’oeil masterpieces
Richard Prince
Peter Greenaway: artworks, 63-98
Hannah Hoch: Album
Sam Durant
Ellsworth Kelly in Dallas
SFMOMA painting and sculpture highlights
The Art of Frederick Sommer: photography, drawing, collage
Resistance art in South Africa
The Nature of Art: an Anthology
The Situationist International: a user’s guide
The art of destruction: the films of the Vienna Action Group.
Place, Tacita Dean
Off limits: 40 Artangel projects
Douglas Gordon: Kidnapping
Likeness and Beyond: Portraits from Africa and the World
Teresita Fernandez
Gary Simmons: Ghost House
Wolfgang Laib: a retrospective
Documenta 11, platform 5: Ausstellung = Exhibition : ausstellungsorte = exhibition venues

Art—Painting
Victor Brauner: surrealist hierogylphs
How to paint a Vermeer: a painter’s history of art
Charles E. Heaney: memory, imagination, and place
Between ruin and renewal: Egon Schiele’s landscapes
Vija Celmins
The most special day of my life, The Clayton Brothers
Drop dead cute: the new generation of women artists in Japan
Frederic Remington: the color of night
Will Barnet: painting without illusion : the genesis of four works from the 1960s
Sugaring off: the maple sugar paintings of Eastman Johnson
Baby-boom daydreams: the art of Douglas Bourgeois
Roy Lichtenstein: Times Square Mural : a catalogue published on the occasion of the unveiling of the Times Square Mural and the exhibition at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, September 5-October 19, 2002
George Inness and the visionary landscape
The Romantic Vision of Michael Brophy
Twentieth-century still-life paintings from the Phillips Collection

Art—Sculpture
George Segal: bronze
Barbara Chase-Riboud, sculptor
Fresh Wood, Greg Asbury

Books about Books
Gutenberg and the impact of printing
The archaeology of medieval bookbinding

Comics
The DC comics guide to inking comics
Writing and illustrating the graphic novel: everything you need to know to create great graphic works
The book of Leviathan
Tricked
City of Glass
Foul play!: the art and artists of the notorious 1950s E.C. comics!
Funny cuts: cartoons and comics in contemporary art ; [Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 4th December 2004-17th April 2005]
Embroideries, by Marjane Satrapi
The Hamilton sketch book

DVDs and Video
Ali Zaoua
The iron giant
Aspect, the chronicle of new media art: The artist as content
Aspect, the chronicle of new media art: Artists of the Boston Cyberarts Festival
Aspect, the chronicle of new media art: Artists of the west coast
Aspect, the chronicle of new media art: Text & language
Aspect, the chronicle of new media art: Joie de vivre
The Decalogue
A Lesson before Dying
Come and See
Stalker
Gigantic: a tale of two Johns
The Dreamers
Orson Welles, F for Fake
Time after Time, Anri Sala
Le Moment, David Claerbout
Over my Shoulder, Douglas Gordon
El Gringo, Francis Alys
Blind Spot, Gary Hill
The Dark Crystal
The Cost of War
Gender & communication: male-female differences in language & nonverbal behavior

History
The First World War
Visions of the future: the distant past, yesterday, today, tomorrow
Homo ludens: a study of the play-element in culture.

Literature and Poetry
Old joy
Core : a romance
Black Dog of Fate: a Memoir
A Lesson Before Dying
Me Talk Pretty One Day
The archivist: a novel
Introducing Romanticism

Music Literature
Yes yes y’all: the Experience Music Project oral history of hip-hop’s first decade

Philosophy
Writings, by Vilém Flusser
Introducing Plato

Photography
Jeff Wall: Louisiana 6. maj-9. august 1992
Still, Thomas Struth
André Kertész
Sleeping by the Mississippi: Alex Soth
Josef Sudek
River of shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the technological wild west
Turning back: a photographic journal of re-exploration by Robert Adams
A guide to the preventive conservation of photograph collections
Golden gate, by Richard Misrach
The history of photography as seen through the Spira collection
Closer: Photographs, Elinor Carucci

Political Science
Introducing American Politics

Psychology
The evolving self: a psychology for the third millennium
Emotional Design: why we love (or hate) everyday things

Science-Botany
Ocean flowers: impressions from nature

Social Sciences
The art of the market: two centuries of American business as seen through its stock certificates
Beyond Culture
Reflections on commercial life: an anthology of classic texts from Plato to the present
The Meme Machine
Thought contagion: how belief spreads through society
Brand.New
The accursed share: an essay on general economy
Brand new justice: how branding places and products can help the developing world
Designing brand identity: a complete guide to creating, building, and maintaining strong brands
Marx for Beginners
Development as Freedom
Guy Debord and the situationist international: texts and documents
The yes men: the true story of the end of the World Trade Organization
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