Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
September 2016 - October 2016
These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.
Additional information about each title can be found in the catalog (click on the title). For older acquisition lists choose from Select another list. To request any of these titles please contact your local library branch.
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By Janson, H. W. Publishing Date: 2001 Classification: 700 Call Number: 709 JAN |
By Hockney, David Publishing Date: c1980 Classification: 700 Call Number: 709.2 HOC |
By Varnedoe, Kirk Publishing Date: c1996 Classification: 700 Call Number: 709.2074 VAR Jasper Johns: A Retrospective is the most complete and authoritative book on this important American artist. This lavish volume reproduces 240 of Johns' works, arranged in sections that allow comparison of paintings, drawings, and prints from each era of his career. 483 illustrations, 261 in color. |
Perpetual motif: the art of Man Ray Publishing Date: 1988 Classification: 700 Call Number: 709.24 Examines all aspects of the artist's production and discusses his connections with artists and radicals in pre-World War I New York, in Paris between the wars, and in Hollywood after World War II - Baker & Taylor) |
By Cannon, Jon Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: 700 Call Number: 726 CAN Surveys the world's major religions and offers insight into the sacred structures of all of them, including the Hagia Sophia, a neo-Sumerian Ziggurat from ancient Mesopotamia, and Sultan Hassan Mosque in Cairo, Egypt. - (Baker & Taylor) |
By Goldsworthy, Andy Publishing Date: 2004 Classification: 700 Call Number: 730.92 GOL Passage is the first book by Goldsworthy to appear since the release of Rivers and Tides, the award-winning documentary feature film about him. The immense success of the film has brought Goldsworthy many more admirers to swell the already large audience for his work. The book focuses exclusively on sculpture made by Goldsworthy since the turn of the millennium. These evocative images will be illuminated by diary entries that chart his experiences working in Scotland and abroad. The first book to commemorate Goldsworthy's most publicized recent commission, the Garden of Stones, a memorial to the Holocaust, at the Museum of Jewish heritage in New York (on which an essay by Simon Schama with photographs by Richard Avedon appeared in The New Yorker in fall 2003). This book is being released at the same time as the paperback reissue of Goldsworthy's Hand to Earth. The two make a strong pair. |
By Puryear, Martin Publishing Date: c2007 Classification: 700 Call Number: 730.92 PUR Over the last 30 years, Martin Puryear has created a body of work that defies categorization, creating sculpture that looks at identity, culture & history. This book accompanies an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art that follows Puryear's development from his first solo show to works being presented for the first time. |
David Hockney: a bigger exhibition Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: 700 Call Number: 740.92 Accompanying one of the most anticipated exhibitions of the past few years, this catalogue captures the grand scale and vibrant color of Hockney's work of the twenty-first century. In the past decade, having returned to England after years on the California coast, David Hockney has focused his attention on both landscapes and portraits, all the while maintaining his fascination with digital technology. The resulting work is a fanfare of color and light, ranging in dimension from billboard- to letter-size, and is the basis for a thrilling new exhibition that promises to become one of the most popular in recent memory. This lush and impeccably produced catalogue features over 100 full-color works of art from museum collections and Hockney's private studio, including such major new works as 'The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate Wood', 'The Bigger Message', and 'Bigger Yosemite'. |
Miller's arts & crafts: living with the arts & crafts style By Miller, Judith Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: 700 Call Number: 745.409 MIL Judith Miller appears regularly on TV and radio. She is an expert on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow and co-hosts the popular BBC series The House Detectives, ITV'sAntiques Trail, and Discovery's It's Your Bid. She has appeared on The Martha Stewart Show and CNN. She is a regular lecturer and contributor to numerous newspapers and magazines, including theFinancial Times, BBC Homes & Antiques and House & Garden. She has lectured extensively, including at the V&A in London and the Smithsonian in Washington. - (Grand Central Pub) |
Colorful stitchery: 65 embroidery projects to personalize your home By Nicholas, Kristin Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: 700 Call Number: 746.4404 NIC With inspiration and encouragement from designer and colorist Kristin Nicholas, would-be and experienced stitchers alike will find dozens of embroidery projects that add exuberance to every room in the house. Nicholas's collection opens with pillow covers in dancing colors on unexpected patterns and fabrics, such as stripes and plaids, velvets and corduroys. For kitchens, she offers a joyfully polka-dotted tea cozy or jewel-bright, purchased napkins and tablecloth creatively stitched with floral motifs. Personalized wedding gifts include a luxurious, monogrammed cashmere throw and his-and-hers hot water bottle covers; or for the perfect baby gift, a cozy matching blanket and teddy bear set. Many projects feature fabrics from flea markets and thrift shops, with complete how-to on hand-felting and hand-dyeing sweaters and blankets for the very softest, most colorful look. With her ribbon-stitched craft boxes (perfect for scrapbookers), embroidered stationery, and even a pair of espadrilles, the author explores an exciting world of embroidering on unexpected surfaces and materials. |
Publishing Date: 1981 Classification: 700 Call Number: 759.13 Catalog of a traveling exhibition held at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Cleveland Museum of Art, and Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Sept. 17, 1981-Mar. 21, 1982. |
By Gablik, Suzi Publishing Date: [1970] Classification: 700 Call Number: 759.9493 GAB Absorbing study of the great Belgian surrealist painter by an American art critic and artist who lived with the Magrittes while preparing this book. |
The sporting art of Frank W. Benson By Bedford, Faith Andrews Publishing Date: 2000 Classification: 700 Call Number: 760.092 BED Belford, who has written extensively on Benson, concentrates on his sporting art, which is the aspect of his career that won him both national and international renown and financial prosperity. Drawing on a store of family memories, diaries, letters and archives, she creates an intimate portrait of a man who was not only a successful artist but a consummate sportsman. She touches on every aspect of his life and art, from his student days at the Boston Museum School to his frequent trips to his farm house on Cape Cod, and his annual salmon fishing and shooting expeditions. Illustrated with color and b&w reproductions. Oversize: 9.5x11.5". Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) - (Book News) |
The dark side of nature: science, society, and the fantastic in the work of Odilon Redon By Larson, Barbara Publishing Date: c2005 Classification: 700 Call Number: 760.092 LAR "Disturbing," "hallucinatory"—words that evoke pathology rather than history— have long framed our understanding of Odilon Redon (1840–1916), a French artist admired by the Surrealists as a precursor in their exploration of the irrational. The Dark Side of Nature demonstrates that, at least insofar as Redon is concerned, late-nineteenth-century science meant not positivistic engagement with a stable material world, but rather the exploration of vast "invisible" realms, from microbes to electricity. With its clear exposition of scientific thought, Larson's book will undoubtedly make a significant contribution not only to Redon studies but also to the interdisciplinary study of art and science. - (Pennsylvania State Univ Pr) |
Josef Sudek, poet of Prague: a photographer's life By Fárová, Anna Publishing Date: c1990 Classification: 700 Call Number: 770.92 FAR Though Sudek's photographs were not well known in his own time, his oeuvre was saved and organized after his death in 1976 by Farova, a photography curator and friend of the artist. The selection of works span the full length of the artist's career, from WWI until his death. The photos, which are poetic and often unusual in their composition, are of the people, buildings, and parks of Prague; the artist's studio; and experimental still lives. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) - (Book News) |
Half past autumn: a retrospective By Parks, Gordon Publishing Date: 1997 Classification: 700 Call Number: 770.92 PAR Gordon Parks, at age 84, is truly a living legend - one of the early Life photographers, and among the most esteemed photographers of our time. His career also extends well beyond the camera - he is an acclaimed poet, filmmaker and composer, and author of many books, from The Learning Tree (1963) to Voices in the Mirror (1990), Arias in Silence (1994), and Glimpses Toward Infinity (1996). - (Hachette Book Group) |
Edward S. Curtis: the life and times of a shadow catcher By Davis, Barbara A. Publishing Date: [1985] Classification: 700 Call Number: 770.924 DAV A biography of the great American photographer of the West and the American Indian includes a section of over two hundred of Curtis's greatest pictures. |
By Stroebel, Leslie D. Publishing Date: c1993 Classification: 700 Call Number: 771.32 STR Provides clear and concise information on the features and applications of view cameras. It details camera movements, image formation, exposure control and lens and accessory information. 'This is one of the most satisfying books on photograhic technique that I have come upon in recent years.. For anyone about to embark on using the view camera in their work, or like me, still trying to tame the beast, this book is a commendable companion.' Don Ryan - Focus, August 1993 - (Elsevier) |
André Kertész: a lifetime of photography By Kertész, André Publishing Date: c1982 Classification: 700 Call Number: 779.092 KER |
Silence: lectures and writings By Cage, John Publishing Date: 1961 Classification: 700 Call Number: 780.4 CAG Silence, A Year from Monday, M, Empty Words and X (in this order) form the five parts of a series of books in which Cage tries, as he says, "to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them." Often these writings include mesostics and essays created by subjecting the work of other writers to chance procedures using the I Ching (what Cage called "writing through"). - (University Press of New England) |
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