Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions

These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.

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The art of cruelty: a reckoning

By Nelson, Maggie

Publishing Date: c2011

Classification: 700

Call Number: 700.453 NEL

Discusses whether the brutal imagery present in reality and entertainment will shock society into a less alienated state and help create a just social order or whether focusing on representations of cruelty makes society more cruel.

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Miss Anne in Harlem: the white women of the Black Renaissance

By Kaplan, Carla

Publishing Date: [2013]

Classification: 700

Call Number: 700.92 KAP

This interracial history of the Harlem Renaissance focuses on white women, collectively called "Miss Anne," who became Harlem Renaissance insiders during the 1920s.

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Red brick, Black Mountain, white clay: reflections on art, family, and survival

By Benfey, Christopher E. G.

Publishing Date: 2012

Classification: 700

Call Number: 701.03 BEN

" An incandescent journey to unearth the beginnings of American art. An unforgettable voyage across the reaches of America and the depths of memory, Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay tells the story of America's artistic birth. Following his family back through the generations, renowned critic Christopher Benfey unearths an ancestry- and an aesthetic-that is quintessentially American. His mother descends from colonial craftsmen, such as the Quaker artist- explorer William Bartram. Benfey's father-along with his aunt and uncle, the famed Bauhaus artists Josef and Anni Albers-escaped from Nazi Europe by fleeing to the American South. Struggling to find themselves in this new world, Benfey's family found strength and salvation in the rich craft tradition grounded in America's vast natural landscape. Bricks form the backbone of life in the rural Piedmont of North Carolina, where Benfey's mother was raised among centuries-old folk potteries, tobacco farms, and clay pits. Her father, like his father before him, believed in the deep honesty of brick, that men might build good lives with the bricks they laid. Nurtured in this red-clay world of ancient craft and Quaker radicalism, Benfey's mother was poised to set out from home when a tragic romance cracked her young life in two. Salvaging the broken shards of his mother's former life and exploring the revitalized folk arts resisting industrialization, Benfey discovers a world brimming with possibility and creativity. Benfey's father had no such foundation in his young life, nor did his aunt and uncle. Exiled artists from Berlin's Bauhaus school, Josef and Anni Albers were offered sanctuary not far from the red Piedmont at Black Mountain College. A radical experiment in unifying education and art, Black Mountain made a monumental impact on American culture under Josef's leadership, counting Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, and Buckminster Fuller among its influential students and teachers. Focusing on the natural world, innovative craftsmanship, and the physical reality of materials, Black Mountain became a home and symbol for an emerging vision of American art. Threading these stories together into a radiant and mesmerizing harmony, Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay is an extraordinary quest to the heart of America and the origins of its art. "--Provided by publisher.

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Medieval-inspired knits: stunning brocade and swirling vine patterns with embellished borders

By Lundberg, Anna-Karin

Publishing Date: c2012

Classification: 700

Call Number: 746.432 LUN

Offers twenty original patterns for experienced knitters inspired by murals, paintings, and tapestries in the medieval churches of the province of Uppland, Sweden. - (Baker & Taylor)

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Renoir in the 20th century

By Renoir, Auguste

Publishing Date: c2010

Classification: 700

Call Number: 759.4 REN

This volume is a biography of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. This work dedicates itself to the final three decades of Renoir's career in which the painter turned away from Impressionism and toward a more decorative approach informed by his own idiosyncratic interpretation of art history. During this period, Renoir was initially looking at painters such as Rubens, Titian and Raphael, and dedicating himself to cheery subjects such as bathers, domestic idylls and landscapes that were influenced by both classical mythology and by his relocation to the South of France.

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The one: the life and music of James Brown

By Smith, R. J.

Publishing Date: c2012

Classification: 700

Call Number: 782.4216 SMI

A tribute to the life and achievements of the "Godfather of Soul" covers his unconventional youth in a segregated South, his complicated family life, and his work as a civil rights advocate and entrepreneur.

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Yesterday, today, tomorrow: my life

By Loren, Sophia

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: 700

Call Number: 791.4302 LOR

"Film legend Sophia Loren shares vivid memories of work, love, and family"--

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NEW RELEASE

A fine romance

By Bergen, Candice

Publishing Date: 2015

Classification: 700

Call Number: 791.4502 BER

In a follow-up to Knock Wood, the Emmy Award-winning actress traces the milestone events of her life, including her first marriage, the birth of her daughter, her work on Murphy Brown and her struggles with widowhood.

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Take me out to the ballpark: an illustrated tour of baseball parks past and present

By Leventhal, Josh

Publishing Date: c2000

Classification: 700

Call Number: 796.357 LEV

Contains details and vital statistics for major and minor league parks and stadiums, stories of athletes, and events which have made the parks famous. - (Baker & Taylor)

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Climbing adventures: a climber's passion

By Bridwell, Jim

Publishing Date: c1992

Classification: 700

Call Number: 796.522 BRI

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