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Graphic Novel

Robert Capa: a graphic biography, Florent Silloray
Call number: GN 770.92/C236/S584
A brilliant portrayal of the career of the great war photographer who, at the time of his death in 1954, had only one wish: to be an unemployed war photographer. "It is not always easy" he said, "to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the suffering." [. . .] Sepia watercolors wash the book in the fog of war and recall Capa's generation on the cusp of color film.

Music Book
Music Book

The life of Lou Reed: notes from the Velvet Underground, Howard Sounes
Call number: 782.421/R324/S724
In the course of his deep research into Reed’s life, from a humble upbringing on Long Island to death from liver disease in 2013, Howard Sounes interviewed more than 140 people who knew the artist intimately―some of whom have not spoken publicly about him before. With new revelations from former wives and lovers, family members, fellow band members and celebrities, and music industry figures, this book offers an updated, unfettered look at Reed’s creative process, his mental health problems, his bisexuality, his three marriages, and his addictions to drugs and alcohol. Featuring previously unpublished photographs of some of Reed’s most private moments, this is the definitive account of one of rock ’n’ roll’s most complicated and brilliant prophets.

DVD
DVD

The holdovers, Alexander Payne, Gift of Dottie Bybee
Call number: DVD 791.43/Holdov
The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them, a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.

ART BOOKS

 

Carrie Ann Baade: scissors & tears

Helena Rubinstein: the adventure of beauty, Michèle Fitoussi

Essential human anatomy for artists: a complete visual guide to drawing the structures of the living form, Ken Goldman

Modigliani unmasked, Mason Klein

Muse: uncovering the hidden figures behind art history's masterpieces, Ruth Millington

A California woman's story, Joan Irvine Smith, Gift of Althea Brimm

The Da Vinci women: the untold feminist power of Leonardo's art, Kia Vahland

Freedom of the presses: artists' books in the twenty-first century, Marshall Weber

ARTISTS' BOOKS

Tidelines: wave mapping, Lilian Cooper, Gift of Lilian Cooper

We came from the stars, Darren Marsh

GRAPHIC NOVELS

Pablo, Julie Birmant

Miles Davis and the search for the sound, Dave Chisholm

Hockney: a graphic life, Simon Elliott

Love me please: the story of Janis Joplin, Nicolas Finet

Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl ballads, Nick Hayes

Queen in comics, Emmanuel Marie

Frida Kahlo: her life, her work, her home, Francisco Mora

The Beatles: yellow submarine, Bill Morrison

Francis Bacon: the story of his life, Cristina Portolano

Ballad of an American: a graphic biography of Paul Robeson, Sharon Rudahl

All tomorrow's parties: the Velvet Underground story, Koren Shadmi

Robert Capa: a graphic biography, Florent Silloray

Vincent, Barbara Stok

MUSIC BOOKS

 

Extended play: sounding off from John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein, John Corbett

The violin-makers of the Guarneri family, 1626-1762, William Henry Hill

Sweet dreams: from club culture to style culture, the story of the New Romantics, Dylan Jones

The life of Lou Reed: notes from the Velvet Underground, Howard Sounes

Led Zeppelin: the biography, Bob Spitz

REFERENCE BOOKS

 

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SPECIAL COLLECTION

 

Jorn in Scandinavia, 1930-1953, Guy Atkins, Gift of Claire Van Vliet

Asger Jorn: the crucial years, 1954-1964, Guy Atkins, Gift of Claire Van Vliet

Asger Jorn: the final years, 1965-1973, Guy Atkins, Gift of Claire Van Vliet

Asger Jorn: supplement, Guy Atkins, Gift of Claire Van Vliet

YOUNG PEOPLE

 

There are no new acquisitions at this time.

LIBRETTO

 

There are no new acquisitions at this time.

MUSIC SCORES

Studien über die Etüden von F. Chopin, Leopold Godowsky

An anthology of piano music for the left hand alone, Ruby Morgan

Caprice romantique: pour piano (main gauche seule), Pierre Sancan

COMPACT DISCS

 

Lyrics by Lerner: Alan Jay Lerner performs his own songs

Red square blue: jazz impressions of Russian composers, Gift of Marie Vickers in honor of F. Norman Vickers, M.D.

TLC & friends, Terri Lyne Carrington

Evenings at the Village Gate, John Coltrane

Zodiac suite, Aaron Diehl

Flight, James Francies

Purest form, James Francies

João, Bebel Gilberto

Ask for chaos, Gilad Hekselman

Far star, Gilad Hekselman

Counterpoint Lerner & Loewe: Dick Hyman & Ken Peplowski in duet, Dick Hyman, Gift of Marie Vickers in honor of F. Norman Vickers, M.D.

Ennanga, Ashley Jackson

A shade of Jade, Rebecca Jade

Last decade, Benjamin Lackner

Pianists as composers, Donald Manildi

The southern suite, Sean Mason

Gather, Maxwell Quartet

Les Choéphores, Darius Milhaud

The golden apple, Jerome Moross

Sun pictures, Linda Oh

Roomful of Teeth, Roomful of Teeth, Gift of Carol Buckley

Piano concerto in E minor; Piano concerto in C major, Nino Rota

Three concertos, Gunther Schuller

Violin concertos, Gil Shaham

This moment, Shakti

You've got to learn, Nina Simone

Unsung Sondheim, Stephen Sondheim

Isabela, Oded Tzur

LPs

 

Hollywood Bowl 100: the first 100 years of music, Gift of Garna Muller

DVDs

 

Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan

The holdovers, Alexander Payne, Gift of Dottie Bybee