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Art Book
Art Book

Old in art school : a memoir of starting over, Nell Painter, Gift of Steve Shirley

Call number: 700.92/P148

Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school--in her sixties--to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves, even as she comes to understand how they may be undervalued; and struggles with the unstable balance between the pursuit of art and the inevitable, sometimes painful demands of a life fully lived. How are women and artists seen and judged by their age, looks, and race? What does it mean when someone says, "You will never be an artist"? Who defines what "An Artist" is and all that goes with such an identity?

Music Book
Music Book

A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival, John Lingan

Call number: 782.421/C913/L755

The definitive biography of Creedence Clearwater Revival, exploring the band's legendary rise to fame and how their music embodied the cultural landscape of the late '60s and early '70s. From 1969 to 1971, as the United States convulsed with political upheaval and transformative social movements, no band was bigger than Creedence Clearwater Revival. They managed a two-year barrage of top-10 singles and LPs that doubled as an ubiquitous soundtrack to one of the most volatile periods in modern American history, and they remain a staple of classic rock radio and films about the era. Yet despite their enduring popularity, no book has ever sought to understand Creedence in conversation with their time. A Song for Everyone finally tells that story: the thirteen-year saga of an unassuming suburban quartet's journey through the wilds of 1960s pop, and their slow accrual of a sound and ethos that were almost mystically aligned with the concerns of decade's end.

Compact Disc
Compact Disc

Uthal, Étienne-Nicolas Méhul

Call number: O M47.88 ut

Opera in one act; libretto by Jacques-Benjamin-Maximilen Bins de Saint-Victor. Sung in French.

Prompted by the success of Ossian's poetry during the First Empire, the Opéra-Comique commissioned from Méhul a short and gripping work inspired by James Macpherson's Celtic reveries. The composer had the brilliant idea of conjuring up the mists of this Scottish fantasy world in his music by using the 'grisaille' sonority of an orchestra without violins. The Gothic coloration of wind instruments with divided violas, the melancholy poetry of the harp and solo horn that frequently emerge from the tutti, contrast with the choruses of warriors and the belligerent strains of Larmor and Uthal. The Hymn to Sleep, an eminently Romantic bardic song, came to be seen as one of Méhul's finest pieces, and was sung over his grave by the Conservatoire students at his funeral in 1817.

ART BOOKS

 

Bay Area Women Artists' Legacy Project: the teens

Being an artist: artist interviews with Art21

The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, and Klee in the New World

Building icons: Arnold Newman's magazine world

The great curve: Henri Laurens 1885-1954, retrospective, Gift of Steve Shirley

Great women painters, Gift of Steve Shirley

Jane Hammond: the John Ashbery collaboration, 1993-2001

Revolution in the making: abstract sculpture by women, 1947-2016, Gift of Steve Shirley

Struggle: the art of Szukalski, Gift of Steve Shirley

My life with Alexander Archipenko, Frances Archipenko Gray, Gift of Steve Shirley

Music in art, Alberto Ausoni

Correspondences=Korrespondenzen, Marcel Broodthaers

Matter in the floating world: conversations with leading Japanese architects and designers, Blaine Brownell, Gift of Steve Shirley

An old dirt trail, a dead oak tree, a big rock on a hill, David Chieppo

Diaghilev's empire: how the Ballets Russes enthralled the world, Rupert Christiansen

Enrico David: gradations of slow release, Michael Darling

The elements of sculpture: a viewer's guide, Herbert George, Gift of Steve Shirley

E is for Edward: a centennial celebration of the mischievous mind of Edward Gorey, Gregory Hischak

Pop art, Klaus Honnef, Gift of Steve Shirley

Looking at art with Alex Katz, Alex Katz

The refusal of time, William Kentridge, Gift of Steve Shirley

Forgotten San Diego, David Marshall, Gift of Carol Buckley

Open questions: thirty years of writing about art, Helen Molesworth, Gift of Steve Shirley

Old in art school: a memoir of starting over, Nell Painter, Gift of Steve Shirley

Maria Sibylla Merian, Catherine Powell-Warren

Josefa de Óbidos, Carmen Ripollés

Talking contemporary curating, Terry Smith, Gift of Steve Shirley

Picasso's homes, Helge Sobik

Arshile Gorky: a retrospective, Michael R. Taylor

Dilexi: a gallery & beyond, Laura Whitcomb

Eva Zeisel on design: the magic language of things, Eva Zeisel

Me, myself and I, Otto Zitko

ARTISTS' BOOKS

Fugal, Susan Johanknecht

GRAPHIC NOVELS

The salon, Nick Bertozzi

The ladies-in-waiting, Santiago García

Leonard Cohen: on a wire, Philippe Girard

The final symphony: a Beethoven anthology, Frank Marraffino

Mingus, Flavio Massarutto

Ballad for Sophie, Filipe Melo

Liberated: the radical art and life of Claude Cahun, Kaz Rowe

Richard Wagner's The ring of the Nibelung, Roy Thomas

MUSIC BOOKS

 

Jerome Kern, Stephen Banfield

The heart of a woman: the life and music of Florence B. Price, Rae Linda Brown

Wagner and the art of the theatre, Patrick Carnegy

The Wagner clan: the saga of Germany's most illustrious and infamous family, Jonathan Carr

Divas and scholars: performing Italian opera, Philip Gossett

Haydn's visits to England, Christopher Hogwood

Benjamin Britten: a life in the twentieth century, Paul Kildea

Carl Nielsen, Jack Lawson

A song for everyone: the story of Creedence Clearwater Revival, John Lingan

Deutsche Grammophon: state of the art: celebrating over a century of musical excellence, Rémy Louis

The war on music: reclaiming the twentieth century, John Mauceri

Angelic music: the story of Benjamin Franklin's glass armonica, Corey Mead

Prokofiev: from Russia to the West, 1891-1935, David Nice

The composer-pianists: Hamelin and The Eight, Robert Rimm

My music, my life, Ravi Shankar

György Ligeti, Richard Toop

Bill Frisell, beautiful dreamer: the guitarist who changed the sound of American music, Philip Watson

How music got free: the end of an industry, the turn of the century, and the patient zero of piracy, Stephen Witt

Bach's musical universe: the composer and his work, Christoph Wolff

REFERENCE BOOKS

 

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SPECIAL COLLECTION

 

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YOUNG PEOPLE

 

Maybe an artist: a graphic memoir, Liz Montague

LIBRETTO

 

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MUSIC SCORES

Don Giovanni, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

COMPACT DISCS

 

Petrushka, 4handsLA

Fausto, Louise Bertin

Djamileh, Vasco de Gama, Le retour de Virginie, Clovis et Clotilde, Musique chorale, Mélodies, Musique pour piano, Georges Bizet

Dedications, vol. 2, Cracow Duo

Thésée, François-Joseph Gossec

La mort d'Abel, Rodolphe Kreutzer

Phèdre, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne

Uthal, Étienne-Nicolas Méhul

String quartet no. 1, Zurab Nadarejshvili

Ascanio, Camille Saint-Saëns

Note to note, Lennie Tristano

The judgment of Paris, John Weldon

Concerti da chiesa e da camera, Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri

LPs

 

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DVDs

 

The room next door, Pedro Almodóvar

The life of Chuck, Mike Flanagan

CODA, Sian Heder

The Klezmer project, Leandro Koch

Ryuichi Sakamoto, Opus, Neo Sora