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New Library Materials – Nonfiction Visual Arts Books – Fall 2021

1500 Color Mixing Recipes for Oil, Acrylic and Watercolor: Achieve Precise Color When Painting Landscapes, Portraits, Still Lifes, and More – William F. Powell

Abstract Art: A Global History – Pepe Karmel

Adam Pendleton – Alec Mapes-Frances, Adrienne Edwards, Andréa Picard

Ai Weiwei – edited by Hans Werner Holzwarth 

Alison Saar: Of Aether and Earthe – coedited by Rebecca McGrew, Irene Tsatsos

American fried rice: the art of Mu Pan – Mu Pan

An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain – Dan Leers

Art After Stonewall: 1969-1989 – edited by Jonathan Weinberg with Tyler Cann, Anastasia Kinigopoulo, and Drew Sawyer

Art & Queer Culture – Catherine Lord & Richard Meyer

The Art of Mondo – foreword by Brad Bird; introduction by Tim League; written by Rob Jones [and 6 others]

Asian American Art, a History 1850-1970 – Gordon H. Chang, senior editor; Mark Dean Johnson, principal editor; Paul J. Karlstrom, consulting editor; Sharon Spain, managing editor

Ballerina: Fashion’s Modern Muse – Patricia Mears, Laura Jacobs, Jane Pritchard, Rosemary Harden, Joel Lobenthal

Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist – edited by Sylvie Patry

Black: A Celebration of a Culture – [compiled by] Deborah Willis

Black Futures – edited by Kimberly Drew + Jenna Wortham

Dora Maar – edited by Damarice Amao, Amanda Maddox, and Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska 

Drawing for Jewelers: Master Class in Professional Design – Maria Josep Forcadell Berenguer, Josep Asunción Pastor

Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa – Marilyn Chase

Girl Pictures – Justine Kurland

Going There: Black Visual Satire – Richard J. Powell

Great women artists – edited by Rebecca Morrill, Karen Wright, Louisa Elderton

Horace Pippin, American Modern – Anne Monahan

How to Read Buddhist Art – Kurt Behrendt

I Can Make You Feel Good – Tyler Mitchell

Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey From World War II to Peace – Ashley Bryan

Jewelry: The Body Transformed – edited by Melanie Holcomb 

Julie Mehretu – edited by Christine Y. Kim and Rujeko Hockley

Kara Walker: A Black Hole is Everything a Star Longs To Be: Drawings 1992-2020 – Anita Haldemann ed.

Kerry James Marshall – Charles Gaines, Greg Tate, Laurence Rassel

Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History – Elizabeth Ferrer

Lorna Simpson Collages – introduction by Elizabeth Alexander

Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires – edited by Andrea Andersson & Julie Crooks

Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs – Mickalene Thomas 

Professional Jewelry Making: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Jewelry Techniques – Alan Revere 

Second Careers: Two Tributaries in African Art – Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi

Textures: The History and Art of Black Hair – Dr. Tameka N. Ellington, Dr. Joseph L. Underwood

The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen: Awesome Female Characters From Comic Book History – Hope Nicholson

Theaster Gates – Carol Becker, Lisa Yun Lee, Achim Borchardt-Hume

This Is What I Know About Art – Kimberly Drew

Trenton Doyle Hancock: Mind of the Mound: Critical Mass – editor: Denise Markonish

Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945 – edited by Barbara Haskell 

A Visual Course of Sculpting Techniques: 270 Photographs to Learn how to Model Clay Busts in the Round – Fabrizio Savi; translation, Elena Cherubini

When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration Through Contemporary Art – edited by Ruth Erickson and Eva Respini

Witnessing Slavery: Art and Travel in the Age of Abolition – Sarah Thomas

Women, Art, and Society, 6th edition – Whitney Chadwick

Women in the Dark: Female Photographers in the US, 1850-1900 – Katherine Manthorne

Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation – edited by Liz Munsell and Greg Tate

All items are available at the Perpich Library.