New Materials List: January
JANUARY
Anthropology
Tattoos of the floating world: Ukiyo-e motifs in the Japanese tattoo
Architecture
Considering Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture: what is OMA
Dutch embassy in Berlin by OMA/Rem Koolhaas
The sex of architecture
Monuments for the USA
Art – General
L’Encyclopedie Diderot et d’Alembert.
The Book of art: a pictorial encyclopedia of painting, drawing and sculpture.
Urgent 2nd class: creating curious collage, dubious documents, and other art from ephemera
Information arts: intersections of art, science, and technology
Internet Art
Art and propaganda in the twentieth century: the political image in the age of mass culture
Crucifixion.
Last Supper
Descent
Boys’ Art, Joyce Kozloff
After criticism: new responses to art and performance
Sponsorship: The fine art of corporate sponsorship/the corporate sponsorship of fine art.
Art – Contemporary
The contingent object of contemporary art
Fragile ecologies: contemporary artists’ interpretations and solutions
Gabriel Orozco: trabajo.
Kathy Prendergast: the end and the beginning
Comic Book Art / Graphic Novels
Cartoonists on music: The comics journal, vol. 4, special edition Summer 2002
Cartoonists on music: The comics journal, vol. 4, special edition Summer 2002
The ACME Novelty library: 16
Black Hole
B. Krigstein Comics
Earthboy Jacobus
Stray Bullets, Vol. 1: Innocence of Nihilism
Stray Bullets, Vol. 2: Somewhere Out West
Sylish Vittles: I met a Girl
Jinx: the definitive collection
Teenagers from Mars
The Masochists
The King
A Complete Lowlife
Little Lulu: Lulu Takes a Trip
Three Fingers
The Interman
Drawn & Quarterly Showcase, Book Two
Drawn and Quarterly, NO. 8
Bone: Out from Boneville
Rosetta 2: A Comics Anthology
Banana Sunday
Late Bloomer
The Collected Sequential
Decorative Arts/Handicrafts
Complete mosaic handbook: projects, techniques, designs
The Complete Book of Bookbinding
Alternative kilns & firing techniques: raku, saggar, pit, barrel
Paper quilting: creative designs using paper & thread
Drawing, Design, Illustration
Drawn toward the avant-garde: nineteenth- and twentieth-century French drawings from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
XXX: the power of sex in contemporary design
DVDs & Videos
DVD:
Strings
Avant garde: experimental cinema of the 1920s and ‘30s.
L’age d’or
The End of Suburbia: oil depletion and the collapse of the American dream
Acne
The work of director Jonathan Glazer
The work of director Mark Romanek
Film Studies
Making meaning: inference and rhetoric in the interpretation of cinema
Geography
Moonlight Chronicles, D. Price
History
Afghanistan Chronotopia, Simon Norfolk
People of the Dalles: the Indians of Wascopam Mission : a historical ethnography based on the papers of the Methodist missionaries
Fashions of a Decade: 1920s
Fashions of a Decade: 1930s
Fashions of a Decade: 1940s
Fashions of a Decade: 1950s
Fashions of a Decade: 1960s
Fashions of a Decade: 1970s
Fashions of a Decade: 1980s
Fashions of a Decade: 1990s
History of beauty
Deliberate speed: the origins of a cultural style in the American 1950s, with a new preface.
Language / Linguistics
Information graphics: a survey of typographic, diagrammatic, and cartographic communication
Slam dunks and no-brainers words: language in your life, the media, business, politics, and, like, whatever
Visual function: an introduction to information design
Literature
Speeches that changed the world
The age of wire and string: stories
How to make a journal of your life
Painting
Charlotte Salomon, life? or theatre?
Jenny Saville
Photography
Flash Afrique!
Shadows, fire, snow: the life of Tina Modotti
Thomas Demand
I am not this body, Barbara Ess
Naoya Hatakeyama
Seydou Keita
Sophie Ristelhueber: Details of the world
The photography of Charles Sheeler: American modernist
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Mitch Epstein: recreation, American photographs 1973-1988
Ralph Eugene Meatyard: the family album of Lucybelle Crater and other figurative photographs
Harlemville, Clare Richardson
Yang Yong
The Valley, Larry Sultan
David Hilliard: Photographs
Hellen van Meene: Portraits
Adam Fuss
Poetry
The collected poems of Wallace Stevens.
Political Science
Artists in Times of War
Psychology
The geography of thought: how Asians and westerners think differently—and why
A brief History of the Smile
Science
The golden ratio: the story of phi, the world’s most astonishing number
The visual dictionary of the skeleton.
Sculpture
500 figures in clay: ceramic artists celebrate the human form
The human form in clay
Barbara Hepworth Centenary
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