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October 22, 2009

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Check these out. Cool. Weird. Wonderful. We just got in a batch of new art books that cover cubism, Dadaism, women in photography, avant garde environments, new Chinese art, renaissance prints, James McNeil Whistler, multi-media art, and more!

Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly
Edited by Marc Simpson, with essays by Wanda M. Corn... [et al.]
Call Number: ND210 .L55 2008

Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian
Edited by Larry Silver and Elizabeth Wyckoff, with essays by Lilian Armstrong... [et al.]
Call Number: NE898.E85 G73 2008

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Vertigo: A Century of Multimedia Art from Futurism to the Web
Edited by Germano Celant, with Gianfranco Maraniello
Call Number: N6494.M78 V47 2008

Spaced Out: Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties
By Alastair Gordon
Call Number: NA7208 .G67 2008

A Cubism Reader: Documents and Criticism, 1906-1914
Edited by Mark Antliff and Patricia Leighten, translated from the French by Jane Marie Todd... [et al.]
Call Number: N6494.C8 C75 2008

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Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography
National Museum of Women in the Arts (exhibition curators, Susan Fisher Sterling and Kathryn A. Wat)
Call Number: TR681.W6 R65 2008

Why Photography Matters As Art As Never Before
By Michael Fried
Call Number: TR642 .F75 2008

New China, New Art = Zhongguo Dang Dai Yi Shu
By Richard Vine
Call Number: N7345 .V56 2008

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Dada in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art
Edited by Anne Umland, Adrian Sudhalter and Scott Gerson
Call Number: N6494.D3 M87 2008

Cold War Modern: Design 1945-1970
Edited by David Crowley and Jane Pavitt
Call Number: TS171.4 .C63 2008

In the Vernacular: Photography of the Everyday
By Stacey McCarroll Cutshaw and Ross Barrett, with essays by Bernard L. Herman and Daile Kaplan Cutshaw
Call Number: TR650 .C88 2008

Salon to Biennial: Exhibitions That Made Art History
Conceived and edited by Phaidon editors and Bruce Altshuler
Call Number: N6447 .S325 2008

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