New Materials List: October

Here’s a selection of the new stuff we’ve been getting—October, 2005

Anthropology
Kitchen culture in America : popular representations of food, gender, and race

Art-Architecture
Power and style : a critique of twentieth-century architecture in the United States
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

Art—Drawing, Design, and Illustration
Visual Research: an Introduction to Research Methodologies in Graphic Design
Ads, fads, and consumer culture : advertising’s impact on American character and society
3 x abstraction : new methods of drawing, Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz, Agnes Martin
Paper or plastic : searching for solutions to an overpackaged world
Dr. Martens Air Wair, Martin Roach
20s : All-American Ads
It is Beautiful—then Gone, M. J. Venezky
Interactive design 3 : the international collection of new media design

Art – Contemporary
Jessica Stockholder : kissing the wall : works, 1988-2003
Helen Chadwick

Art—General
Power and style : a critique of twentieth-century architecture in the United States
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

Art—History
Core Sample : Portland Art Now
Installation art : a critical history
Dada and Surrealism

Art—Painting
The triumph of painting : the Saatchi Gallery
Thomson, Tom Thomson
Hundertwasser, 1974, Albertina.

Art—Sculpture
Alan Finkel
The paper sculpture book : a complete exhibition in a book with 29 buildable sculptures
Alberto Giacometti

Comics
King : a comic book biography
Syncopated v. 1

Cultural Studies
Popular Culture in American History, ed. Jim Cullen

DVDs and Video
Ciao Manhattan
Richard Tuttle : never not an artist.
Unseen Cinema 7 Disc collection—
Viva la Dance : the Beginnings of Ciné-dance
The Amateur as Auteur : discovering paradise in pictures.
Picturing a Metropolis : New York City unveiled.
Inverted Narratives : new directions in storytelling.
Light Rhythms : music and abstraction.
The Devil’s Plaything : American Surrealism
The Mechanized Eye : experiments in technique and form.

Film Studies
Visionary film : the American avant-garde, 1943-2000

History
Sex, Art, and American Culture : Essays, Camille Paglia
Ancient Sichuan : treasures from a lost civilization

Literature and Poetry
The Thomsky Fluke and Other Tales, Jay Davis
Orphans, Charles D’Ambrosio
The Clear Cut Future
Ode to Certain Interstates and Other Poems, Howard W. Robertson
Occasional work and seven walks from the Office for Soft Architecture, Lisa Robertson
Denny Smith, Robert Glèuck
Pinocchio in Venice, Robert Coover
The Father Costume, Ben Marcus

Philosophy
Balance : Art and Nature, John K. Grande

Photography
Robert Mapplethorpe
Monograph, Remy Gastambide
Light – science & magic: an introduction to photographic lighting

Social Sciences
The New everyday : views on ambient intelligence

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