New Materials List: March
MARCH
Anthropology
Ceramic uncles & celluloid mammies: Black images and their influence on culture
Art – General
The Royal College of Art collection: a selection of paintings and drawings: published to coincide with the exhibition Painters Progress, Pallant House Gallery, 10th July – 6th September 1998.
Flashback: Revisiting the art of the 80s
Twentieth-century art of Latin America
Early days in the Northwest: Prints, paintings, drawings
Leonora Carrington: surrealism, alchemy and art
Last chance for Eden: selected art criticism by Christopher Knight, 1979-1994
Portraiture
Victor Burgin: spring 2000: Robert Gwathmey lectures
Stelarc: the monograph
White on black: images of Africa and Blacks in Western popular culture
Art – Contemporary
Appearance: Mariko Mori, Yasumasa Morimura, Luigi Ontani, Andres Serrano, Pierre & Gilles, Tony Oursler
Contemporary art: from studio to situation
Fast forward: media art Sammlung Goetz
Whitney Biennial 2006 Day for night
Video green: Los Angeles art and the triumph of nothingness
Arturo Herrera: you go first
Blockhead & Daddies Bighead: Paul McCarthy at Tate Modern
Popped art
Nathan Oliveira
Double consciousness: Black conceptual art since 1970
Black is a color
Sandra Blow
John Minton: dance till the stars come down
Julian Opie: JO
The art of Rachel Whiteread
Portraits: talking with artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and elsewhere
Olaf Breuning: ugly
Body proxy
Africa remix: contemporary art of a continent
Pictoplasma
Richard Wilson
Becoming animal: contemporary art in the animal kingdom
Comic Book Art / Graphic Novels
Comics as philosophy
The boulevard of broken dreams
Frank Miller’s Sin City: the hard goodbye
Saga of the Swamp Thing
Tom Strong’s terrific tales.
World war three illustrated: Herstories
Too fat, can’t fly and other stories
V for vendetta
The sandman: a game of you
The sandman: Dream country
The Sandman: endless nights
The sandman: preludes & nocturnes
Design
Andrea Zittel: critical space
Design of Dissent
Robert Brownjohn sex and typography: 1925-1970, life and work
Humble masterpieces: everyday marvels of design
20th century ceramic designers in Britain What is a designer: things, places, messages
The snow show
The designer and the grid
Forms, folds, and sizes: all the details graphic designers need to know but can never find
DIY
Make a zine!: a guide to self-publishing disguised as a book on how to produce a zine
Radical simplicity: creating an authentic life
Drawing, Illustration
Armpit of the mole
Morris Louis: drawings, 1948-1953
The Strange Case of Edward Gorey
Drawing from observation: an introduction to perceptual drawing
Dear new girl or whatever your name is
Drawing from the modern, 1945-1975
Drawing from the modern, 1975-2005
Everyday matters: a New York diary
DVDs & Videos
DVD:
Joseph Campbell and the power of myth
Martin Luther: an empires special; distributed by PBS Home Video
The God who wasn’t there
Peter and Paul and the Christian revolution
The Greeks: crucible of civilization
The Medici, godfathers of the Renaissance
Egypt’s golden empire
Landmarks of western art; Part 1, The Late Medieval World
Landmarks of western art; Part 2, The Renaissance
Landmarks of western art; Part 3, The Baroque
Landmarks of western art; Part 4, From Rococo to Revolution
Landmarks of western art; Part 5, Romanticism
Landmarks of western art; Part 6, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
Art 21: art in the 21st century, Season Three
Bill Viola: the eye of the heart
Robert Irwin: the beauty of questions
Off the canvas: a documentary
Soft cinema: navigating the database
Death Valley project: the making of the Last Supper Sculpture by Belgian artist Albert Szukalski
Louise Bourgeois: c’est le murmure de l’eau qui chante
In the realms of the unreal
The way things go
Basquiat
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
Me and you and everyone we know
Rubber Johnny
In the mirror of Maya Deren
La jetee/sans soleil
Anthology of surreal cinema.
Gray’s anatomy
Burning Man: beyond Black Rock
Contacts. 2: La photographie conceptuelle: Conceptual photography
Contacts. 3: La photographie conceptuelle: Conceptual photography
Step across the border
ARTPIX 4: diversedialogues
VIDEO:
The Reflecting skin
Gunther von Hagens’ Body worlds: the anatomical exhibition of real human bodies.
Full circle; Mediations; Around & about
The Bride of Frankenstein
Economics
Cutting corporate welfare
Education
School board battles: the Christian right in local politics
Film Studies
Antonioni, or, The Surface of the world
Subtitles: on the foreignness of film
Folklore
Master man: a tall tale of Nigeria
Paul Bunyan, the work giant.
American Tall Tales
General Interest
Baseball collectibles: with price guide
Animal ingredients A to Z
History
Rhythm Science
The world of tattoo: an illustrated history
Literature
We, by Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin
The wind-up bird chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami
Ruin the sacred truths: poetry and belief from the Bible to the present
Finding a form: essays
Six memos for the next millennium, by Italo Calvino
Mr. Palomar, by Italo Calvino
Amphigorey: fifteen books by Edward Gorey
Every war has two losers: William Stafford on peace and war
The fortress of solitude: a novel, by Jonathan Lethem
Demonology: stories, by Rick Moody
Language to cover a page: the early writings of Vito Acconci
The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife, by Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass, by Philip Pullman
Swamp Angel, by Anne Isaacs
Painting
To paint her life: Charlotte Salomon in the Nazi era
Keith Haring: Heaven and Hell: Museum fèur Neue Kunst, ZKM Karlsruhe
Domus: wall painting in the Roman house
Fra Angelico
Philosophy
Early Socratic Dialogues, Plato
Photography
War: USA, Afghanistan, Iraq
Rich and poor: photographs, Jim Goldberg
Dido Moriyama
Workers: an archaeology of the industrial age, Sebastiao Salgado
John Humble: L.A.
The Europeans, Tina Barney
Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Abelardo Morell
Art in residence: west coast artists in their space
Poetry
The visionary company: a reading of English romantic poetry.
Collected Poems, Robert Lowell
The way it is: new & selected poems, William Stafford
Political Science
Start making sense: turning the lessons of election 2004 into winning progressive politics
Printmaking
Artists & prints: masterworks from the Museum of Modern Art
David Freed, printmaker: a retrospective.
Psychology
Creativity from constraints: the psychology of breakthrough
Religion
One electorate under God?: a dialogue on religion and American politics
What’s God got to do with the American experiment?
The goddess speaks: myths & meditations
Rudolf Steiner: an illustrated biography
Protestant, Catholic, Jew: an essay in American religious sociology.
Sculpture
Alice Aycock: sculpture and projects
Cuts: texts 1959-2004, Carl Andre
Triceracopter: the hope for the obsolescense of war
Sociology
Serpents in the garden: liaisons with culture & sex
Technology
Shaping things
Material ConneXion: the global resource of new and innovative materials for architects, artists, and designers
Glazes and glazing techniques: a glaze journey
Writing
MLA handbook for writers of research papers, 6th ed.
1001 letters for all occasions: the best models for every business and personal need
Writing as a way of healing: how telling our stories transforms our lives
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