Books received.Animalerie, by Jayne Hinds Bidaut. University of Texas Press/192pp./$60 (hb). The Art of Der Spiegel Der Spiegel (The Mirror) is Europe's biggest and most influential weekly magazine, published in Hamburg, with a circulation of more than one million per week, having a readership of an estimated 6.5 million. (Die Kunst des Spiegel), by Stefan Aust Stefan Aust (July 1, 1946 - Stade, Lower Saxony) is a German journalist and has been the editor-in-chief of the weekly news magazine Der Spiegel since 1994. and Stefan Kiefer. teNeues/264pp./$35 (sb). The Art of Seeing, the Art of Listening, by Ursula Boser. Peter Lang AG/241pp./$47.95 (sb). Away Out Over Everything: The Olympic Peninsula The Olympic Peninsula is the large arm of land in western Washington state that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle. It is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, the north by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the east by Puget Sound and the Hood Canal. and the Elwha River The Elwha River is a 45-mile-long river located on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington. From its source in the Olympic Range of Olympic National Park it flows generally north to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. , photographs by Mary Peck, essay by Charles Wilkinson. Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. Press/88pp./$49.95 (hb). Berlin in the Time of the Wall, (Contact Sheet 129) by John Gossage/Light Work/(sb). [catloge of an exhibition about a book] Beuys Posters, by Isabel Siben. Prestel/95pp./$49.95 (hb). [in German and English]. Beyond the Limits, by Mitra Tabrizian. Steidl128pp./$$40 9hb). Bob Natkin Photographer, photographs by Bob Natkin. Stephen Gallery/48pp./(sb)[a show catalog]. Chris Marker, by Catherine Lupton. University of Chicago Press/256pp./$25 (sb). A Critical Cinema 4: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers, by Scott MacDonald. University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). Press/409pp.$29.95 (sb). Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, foreward by President Bill Clinton. Merrell in association with the Corcoran Gallery of Art/208pp/$49.95 (hb). [a catalog of the collection of Julia J. Norell and its exhibition at the corcoran Gallery of Art Corcoran Gallery of Art: see under Corcoran, William Wilson. Oct. 2004-Jan. 2005] Dark Designs and Visual Culture, by Michele Wallace. Duke University Press/528pp./$23.95 (sb). The Forest Lover, by Susan Vreeland. Penguin Books/464pp./$14 (sb). [about the life of artist Emily Carr (1871-1945)]. From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture, by Paul Buhle. Verso/304pp./$25 9hb). Gareth McConnel, photographs by Gareth McConnel. Steidl/Photoworks/112pp./$35 (hb). Greece: Photographs by Rainer Kiedrowski, text by Dimitris Angelis. teNeues/120pp./(sb). Illustrated History No. 13, by Mariona Barkus. Litkus Press/$9 (sb). [a folio of 8 wryly humorous postcads of a social and political nature; black & white graphics and text; an edition of 250]. Imitation of Life, by Fannie Hurst. Duke University Press/352pp./$19.95 (sb). In Almost Every Picture #3, book and CD, edited and designed by Erik Kessels, text by Tyler Whishnand. Artimo/Gijs Stork/$25 (sb). In Senghor's Shadow: Art, Politics and the Avant Garde in Senegal 1960-1995, by Elizabeth Harney. Duke University Press/316pp./$99.95 (hb), $26.95 (sb). Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetetriere, George Didi-Huberman, translated by Alisa Artz. MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press/385pp./$19.95 (sb). Installation Art in the New Millennium: The Empire of the Senses, by Nicolas De Oliveira, Nicola Oxley and Michael Perry. Thames and Hudson/208pp./$29.95 (sb). Ireland: Photographs by Wolfgang Fritz, text by Michael Scott. teNeues/120pp./ (sb). A Jewish Family in Germany Today: An Intimate Portrait, by Y. Michael Bodemann. Duke University Press/296pp./$22.95 (sb). Keepers of the Southern Byways, by Brian Jolley. Big Crooked Teeth Publications/62pp./(sb). New Media 1740-1915, edited by Lisa Gitelman and Geoffrey B. Pingee. MIT Press/305pp./$18.95 (sb). New Mexico: Images of a land and Its People, photographs by Lucian Niemeyer, essay by Art Gomez. University of New Mexico The University of New Mexico (UNM) is a public university in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was founded in 1889. It also offers multiple bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and professional degree programs in all areas of the arts, sciences, and engineering. Press/135pp/(hb). The Nude: Ideal and Reality Photography, edited by Peter Weiermair, Claudio Marr and Ulrich Pohlmann. Skira/248pp./$50 (hb). Our Culture Is Our Resistance: Repression, Refuge and Healing in Guatamala, photographs and text by Jonathan Moller. Powerhouse Books/214pp./$45 (hb). [also available in Spanish]. The Photograph as Contemporary Art, by Charlotte Cotton. Thames Hudson/224pp./$16.95 (sb). Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings, by James Elkins. Routledge/272pp./$19.95 (sb). Prosthetic pros·thet·ic adj. 1. Serving as or relating to a prosthesis. 2. Of or relating to prosthetics. prosthetic serving as a substitute; pertaining to prostheses or to prosthetics. Gods, by Hal Foster. MIT Press/161pp./$35 (hb). Pure Dance, by Dieter Blum. teNeues/196pp./$95 (hb). Re-Imaging the Museum: Beyond the Mausoleum mausoleum (môsəlē`əm), a sepulchral structure or tomb, especially one of some size and architectural pretension, so called from the sepulcher of that name at Halicarnassus, Asia Minor, erected (c.352 B.C. , by Andrea Whitcomb. Routledge/198pp./$32.95 (sb). The Seeing I, book and CD of work by Buky Schwartz, edited by Ted Perry. Olive Production and Publishing/175pp./$75 (hb). [boxed set] SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto, by Valerie Solanasr. Verso/80pp./$15 (hb). Shanghai: Architecture & Urbanism for Modern China, edited by Seng Kuan and Peter G. Rowe. Prestel Verlag/184pp./$60 (hb). Show Runner: Producing Variety and Talk Shows for Television, by Steve Clements. Silman-James Press/177pp./$19.95 (sb). Stone Lines, photographs by Leonardo de Cesaris. Self published. Bang Printing/82pp./$19.95 (sb). Sunnydell Farm, by Karen Bucher. Visual Studies Workshop/56pp./$42 (sb). [an artist's book documenting personal family history in images and text]. Trick of the Eye: Trompe L'OEil Masterpieces, by Eckhard Hollmann and Jurgen Tesch. Prestel/96pp./$35 (hb). University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission MFA See multifactor authentication. Catalogue, University of Southern California/96pp./ (sb). The Unnatural Glow of Significance, by Mitchell Marco. Self published/20pp. [a portrait collection of b & w drawings]. The Vico Collaboration, by Dennis Letbetter, Giambattista Vico and Jack Stauffacher. The Greenwood Press/63pp./$18 (sb). [Exhibition catalog]. Vogue Deutsch Dialogues, edited by Conde Nast Verlag. Prestel Verlag/296pp./(hb). What We Want is Free: Generosity and Exchange in Recent Art, edited by Ted Purves. State University of New York (body) State University of New York - (SUNY) The public university system of New York State, USA, with campuses throughout the state. (SUNY SUNY - State University of New York ) Press/184pp./$49.95 (hb), $16.95 (sb). |
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