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
Da Capo Press, 2010
Boris Karloff : a gentleman’s life : the authorized biography by Scott Allen Nollen with the participation of Sara Jane Karloff
Midnight Marquee Press, 1999
The art of Roy McMakin : when is a chair not a chair?
Random House, 2010
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.
Allen & Unwin, 2010On being a sculptor by Henry Moore
Tate Publishing, 2010The art of Hergé : inventor of Tintin. Volume 2, 1937-1949 by Philippe Goddin
Last Gasp of San Francisco, 2009Sexual rhetoric in the works of Joss Whedon : new essays edited by Erin B. Waggoner
McFarland, 2010Ernie Kovacs & early tv comedy : nothing in moderation by Andrew Horton
University of Texas Press, 2010
Performing violence in contemporary Ireland edited by Lisa Fitzpatrick
Carysfort Press, 2010
Music and displacement : diasporas, mobilities, and dislocations in Europe and beyond edited by Erik Levi and Florian Scheding
Scarecrow Press, 2010
Niki de Saint Phalle edited by Simon Groom
Tate, 2008Amico : the life of Giovanni Battista Viotti by Warwick Lister
OUP, 2009The great lady decorators : the women who defined interior design, 1870-1955 by Adam Lewis
Rizzoli, 2010Medieval and renaissance art : people and possessions by Glyn Davies, Kirstin Kennedy
V&A, 2009Forbidden fruit : a history of women and books in art by Christiane Inmann
Prestel, 2009New York nocturne : the city after dark in literature, painting, and photography, 1850-1950 by William Chapman
Princeton University Press, 2008101 must-see movies for gay men by Alonso Duralde
Alyson Books, 2005
Imagination, books & community in medieval Europe: papers of a conference held at the State Library of Victoria Melbourne, Australia 29-31 May 2008
Macmillan, 2009Serizawa : master of Japanese textile design edited by Joe Earle
Yale University Press, 2009
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
Oak Knoll Press, 2008
Chaotic harmony : contemporary Korean photography by Karen Sinsheimer, Anne Wilkes Tucker, with Bohnchang Koo
Yale University Press, 2009
Getting to know him : a biography of Oscar Hammerstein II by Hugh Fordin
Weiser Books, 2007Oak Knoll Press, 2008
Yale University Press, 2009
Da Capo Press, 1995
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