A selection of new books hitting the shelves in the Arts Library, from a biography of one of the greatest of all horror movie stars to essays exploring sexuality in the television shows of Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, etc., etc….), and quite a few stops in between. Enjoy!

A hundred or more hidden things : the life and films of Vincente Minnelli by Mark Griffin

Boris Karloff : a gentleman’s life : the authorized biography by Scott Allen Nollen with the participation of Sara Jane Karloff

The art of Roy McMakin : when is a chair not a chair?

The happiest refugee : the extraordinary true story of a boy’s journey from starvation at sea to becoming one of Australia’s best-loved comedians by Anh Do.

On being a sculptor by Henry Moore

The art of Hergé : inventor of Tintin. Volume 2, 1937-1949 by Philippe Goddin

Sexual rhetoric in the works of Joss Whedon : new essays edited by Erin B. Waggoner

Ernie Kovacs & early tv comedy : nothing in moderation by Andrew Horton

Performing violence in contemporary Ireland edited by Lisa Fitzpatrick 

Music and displacement : diasporas, mobilities, and dislocations in Europe and beyond edited by Erik Levi and Florian Scheding

Niki de Saint Phalle  edited by Simon Groom

 Amico : the life of Giovanni Battista Viotti by Warwick Lister

The great lady decorators : the women who defined interior design, 1870-1955 by Adam Lewis

Medieval and renaissance art : people and possessions by Glyn Davies, Kirstin Kennedy

Forbidden fruit : a history of women and books in art by Christiane Inmann

New York nocturne : the city after dark in literature, painting, and photography, 1850-1950 by William Chapman

101 must-see movies for gay men by Alonso Duralde

 Imagination, books & community in medieval Europe: papers of a conference held at the State Library of Victoria Melbourne, Australia 29-31 May 2008

Serizawa : master of Japanese textile design edited by Joe Earle

Our gods wear Spandex : the secret history of comic book heroes by Christopher Knowles

Weiser Books, 2007

Carl Larsson : an annotated bibliography by Ann J. Topjon

Chaotic harmony : contemporary Korean photography by Karen Sinsheimer, Anne Wilkes Tucker, with Bohnchang Koo

Getting to know him : a biography of Oscar Hammerstein II by Hugh Fordin