New Materials List: April

APRIL

Anthropology
Else/where: mapping new cartographies of networks and territories

Art – General
Art since 1900: modernism, antimodernism, postmodernism
Seems: Integrations with the physical and social peripherary of the museum
The geometry of art and life
Real spaces: world art history and the rise of Western modernism
What do pictures want?: the lives and loves of images
Body art and performance: the body as language
Museum highlights: the writings of Andrea Fraser
The arts in Britain in World War I

Art – Contemporary
Women environmental artists directory.
Art and survival: Patricia Johanson’s environmental projects
Cory Arcangel: Beige.
Art Now 2005
LA artland: contemporary art from Los Angeles
America starts here: Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler
David Smith, drawing + sculpting
Going forth by day, Bill Viola
Bill Viola: the passions
The art of Bill Viola
James Coleman
Erwin Wurm: I love my time, I don’t like my time
About Nothing, John Armleder
If it happened only once it’s as if it never happened, Artur Smijewski
Flow, a transcontinental soundwork
Patrick Mimran: babel.tv
Patrick Mimran: el ritmo del tiempo = el ritme del temps.
Patrick Mimran: vertigo
Brahmâtic: Patrick Mimran

Comic Book Art / Graphic Novels
The last island, Alex Cahill
Six hundred and seventy-six apparitions of Killoffer
The Sandman: the doll’s house

Decorative Arts
Leather work

Design
Charles and Ray Eames: designers of the twentieth century
Vinyl will kill!: An inside look at the designer toy phenomenon

Drawing, Illustration
Swag 2: rock posters of the ‘90s and beyond
Joseph Pennell’s pictures of war work in England: reproductions of a series of drawings and lithographs of the munition works made by him with the permission and authority of the British government, 1917
Panda meat: source book 1
American architecture: a vintage postcard collection
American illustration 24
Graphic Japan: from woodblock and zen to manga and kawaii

DVDs & Videos
DVD:
Best v best, “A really lovely selection of award winning short films.”
Un chien Andalou

Folklore
Dona Flor: a tall tale about a giant woman with a great big heart

History
The war depicted by distinguished British artists.
An onlooker in France, 1917-1919
Signs of the times: a portrait of struggle
Ten thousand sorrows: the extraordinary journey of a Korean war orphan

Literature
The flight to Lucifer: a Gnostic fantasy
Point of view, Ella Hogan

Painting
Cecilia Beaux: a modern painter in the gilded age
The politics of experience and Selected works 1973-2005, Tom Cramer
Keith Morrison
Chris Wright : New paintings, November 9 – December 17, 2005
Patrick Caulfield: paintings
Sir John Everett Millais,: his art and influence
The moment of self-portraiture in German renaissance art
Glen Hansen: paintings of Venice, April 1-24, 1999.

Photography
Decoys and disruptions: selected writings, 1975-2001, Martha Rosler
Shomei Tomatsu
Private enemy – public eye: the work of Bruce Charlesworth

Poetry
101 poems against war
The collected poems of Wilfred Owen
Siegfried Sassoon: the war poems
Even in quiet places: poems, William Stafford

Printmaking
Origins of European printmaking: fifteenth-century woodcuts and their public
Evolving techniques in Japanese woodblock prints
Artists & prints: masterworks from the Museum of Modern Art
Three decades of American printmaking: the Brandywine Workshop collection
Printmaking in the sun: an artist’s guide to making professional-quality prints using the solarplate method
A portrait of the artist, 1525-1825: prints from the collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, James Clifton

Sculpture
Rachel Whiteread: embankment
Manuel Izquierdo: Recent sculpture
Desperate Men: Recent sculpture, Jeff Whyman
Franz Ferdinand Wörle: Skulpturen = sculptures
Forgotten world: Emil Kazaz

Women’s Studies
The feminine mystique

Writing
Writing the artist statement: revealing the true spirit of your work

Updated 25 april 2006—Sn

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