Fine Art, Design & Architecture

(by title)

	Early Christianity / Jewish Literary Criticism / Art History Aesthetic Theology and Its Enemies The role of Judaism in the formation of Western aesthetics	Nirenberg, David

	Film & Video / Contemporary Art / Media Studies Against Immediacy The participatory vision of early video art	Kaizen, William

	American Art / Portraits / Art History American Faces A sweeping exploration of why and how we look at ourselves through art	Saunders, Richard H.

	Landscape Architecture / Education American Playgrounds A compelling history, a manifesto, and a manual for change.	Solomon, Susan

	Regional Architecture / New England Travel Architecture in Salem Long-awaited reprint of an essential guide to the architectural heritage of Salem, Massachusetts.	Tolles, Bryant F., Jr.

	Entomology / Insects & Spiders / Plans & Animal Photography Art and Architecture of Insects Discover the hidden beauty of insect anatomy	Phillips, David M.

	New England Travel / American Art Art Museums PLUS An engaging guide to over 150 art museums and more throughout New England	Marshall, Traute M.

	Art / History - 20th Century / History & Theory The Art of Evolution A timely and stimulating collection of essays about the impact of Darwin's ideas on visual culture	Larson, Barbara, Fae Brauer, eds.

	Art Study & Teaching / Higher Education / Literary Criticism - 19th Century Art Schooled One year in the life of the students, teachers, and artists at one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious art colleges	Witham, Larry

	Modern Architecture to 1945 / Regional Architecture / New England History Arts and Crafts Architecture The first study of the origins and multiple expressions of New England’s Arts and Crafts architecture	Meister, Maureen

	Art / Ancient Art Assyrian Reliefs from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II An insider’s look at the iconography and history of Assyrian reliefs and the West’s fascination with these ancient monuments	Cohen, Ada and Kangas, Steven E., editors

	Architecture / New England History Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn 20th Anniversary Edition The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic architectural study of the development of the connected farm buildings made by 19th-century New Englanders, which offers insight into the people who made them.	Hubka, Thomas C.

	Art / Architecture Boston Beheld Boston seen anew through historical paintings	Simons, D. Brenton

	Art / Film, TV, Visual Culture The Brillo Box Archive A study of the iconic Brillo box through the theories of design, aesthetics, and art	Golec, Michael J.

	Regional Architecture / Maine A Building History of Northern New England The first and only full-scale technical and stylistic analysis of 200 years of architectural evolution in northern New England	Garvin, James L.

	Biography - Artists Carrying the Torch The biography of a leading light of the Newport art and cultural scene	Grinnell, Nancy Whipple

	Essays / Books on Books A Child’s Delight An appealing guide to 33 neglected gems in children's literature by the author of A Reader's Delight.	Perrin, Noel

	Art - Romantic Period / Architectural History- Romanticism / History - Italy City of the Soul Romantic Rome—the Eternal City in word and image, from Goethe and Byron to James, from etching and watercolor to photograph	Pinto, John A.

	Architecture / Landscape Architecture / Essays The Collected Writings of Beatrix Farrand Landscape gardener Beatrix Farrand’s written work, in print for the first time	Farrand, Beatrix; Carmen Pearson, ed.

	Color Theory / Philosophy / Architecture / Literary Criticism Color Codes A multidisciplinary look at the role of color in contemporary aesthetics.	Riley, Charles A. II.

	Art History / Design Denman Ross and American Design Theory The life and thought of one of the founders of twentieth-century American design	Frank, Marie

	Literary Criticism - American / Photography / Architecture / Biography & Letters The Dickinsons of Amherst A master photographer and three distinguished scholars document the physical world of Emily Dickinson.	Liebling, Jerome, Photographs. Christopher Benfey, Polly Longsworth, and Barton Levi St. Armand, eds.

	Art History / Ancient History The Divine Spark of Syracuse A study of place and creative inspiration	Rowland, Ingrid D.

	Art Criticism & Theory / Aesthetics / Contemporary Art Ecological Aesthetics “Ecological Aesthetics is a plea for us to continuously think- and act-with the world and its inhabitants, both human and nonhuman; to orient ourselves in ways that we might find and express what our environments, and what they are made of, want; and then to decisively help and continue those thoughts, wants, and actions toward novel aims and adventures.”	Stern, Nathaniel

	American Art / Individual Artists / 20th Century Art Edward Hopper in Vermont A delightful account of Edward Hopper’s sojourns in Vermont with his wife, Jo, illustrated by the watercolors and drawings that he made there	Clause, Bonnie Tocher

	Artists’ Books / American Art / Contemporary Art Emily Mason A comprehensive presentation of Emily Mason’s painting and prints	Ebony, David and Christina Weyl

	Architecture / New England History / New England Travel Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings A generously illustrated handbook for identifying and understanding structures that symbolize the region’s unique cultural and historical landscape	Visser, Thomas Durant

	Media Studies / Digital Art / Technology - Social Aspects Finding Augusta Addresses the effect of mobile communications technologies on individuals’ habits and how they are regulated	Cooley, Heidi Rae

	Art Criticism & Theory / Contemporary Art / Photography - Criticism Framed Spaces A study of the relationship between photography and installation art	McTighe, Monica E.

	Modern Art Free as Gods A lively, wide-ranging look at the connections inside the core group of avant-garde artists in Jazz Age Paris	Riley, Charles A. II

	Art History / Digital Art / Art Criticism & Theory From Point to Pixel A timely reconsideration of digital aesthetics	Hoy, Meredith

	Art / Biography Georgia O’Keeffe A highly acclaimed biography of Georgia O'Keeffe that emphasizes her ongoing struggle for autonomy.	Robinson, Roxana

	Art History / Digital Art / Media Studies Girlhood and the Plastic Image A study of the mutual plasticity of girls and digital images	Warren-Crow, Heather

	Ceramics / Biography - Artists / Garden Furnishings Guy Wolff An intimate journey into Wolff’s world of craftsmanship and the joy of creating and using finely made objects	Staubach, Suzanne

	Architecture / American History A History of American Architecture A richly illustrated history of American architecture that explains why particular architectural ideas occurred when and where they did.	Gelernter, Mark

	Art History Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture A fresh look at a pivotal nineteenth-century painter	Harkett, Daniel, and Katie Hornstein, Editors

	Regional Architecture / History Hudson Valley Ruins An elegant homage to the many deserted buildings along the Hudson River—and a plea for their preservation.	Rinaldi, Thomas E. and Yasinsac, Robert J.

	Interior Design / Cooking - Chefs & Restaurants In Julia's Kitchen An award-winning architect and Julia Child’s staff photographer show us how to bring into our homes Julia’s commitment to the life-changing magic of eating together	Heyne, Pamela and Scherer, Jim

	Nature / Contemporary Art In Season In words and pictures, two naturalists show that close attention to nature reveals constant change	Estrin, Nona Bell, field illustrations and notes; Charles W. Johnson, essays

	American Art In Sight Sabra Field’s latest prints presented in a dazzling new look at her bold, signature creative process	Field, Sabra

	Art History / History of Ancient Art Inside an Ancient Assyrian Palace A detailed exploration of Layard’s famous lithograph of the interior of an Assyrian palace	Cohen, Ada, and Steven E. Kangas

	Art History / Cultural Studies Jewish Dimensions in Modern Visual Culture A fascinating look at key aspects of visual culture in modern Jewish history	Long, Rose-Carol Washton, Matthew Baigell, and Milly Heyd, eds.

	Jewish Studies Kabbalah and Art	Bronstein, Léo

	Dance / Modern Art / American Art / Kinesthetics The Living Line The role of body movement in the formation of American modernism	Veder, Robin

	Conservation / Sculpture / Nature - Birds The Lost Bird Project A sculptor creates memorials to five extinct North American bird species	McGrain, Todd

	Jewish Studies / Architecture / Social Science Louis I. Kahn’s Jewish Architecture The evolution of the postwar American synagogue illuminated through the plans for Louis Kahn’s unbuilt Mikveh Israel	Solomon, Susan G.

	New England Travel / Regional Architecture / Historic Preservation New England’s Covered Bridges A complete guide to more than 200 covered bridges in the six New England states.	Evans, Benjamin D.; Evans, June R.

	Architecture New Hampshire Architecture An illustrated popular guide to the Granite State’s rich architectural heritage	Tolles, Bryant F., Jr. with Carolyn K. Tolles

	Agriculture & Food Production / New England Gardening / Regional Photography New Hampshire Women Farmers Beautifully illustrated book showcasing the efforts of New Hampshire’s farm women to revitalize farming in the twenty-first century	Brody, Helen and Leslie Tuttle, Photographer

	Regional Architecture / Historic Preservation Newport Through Its Architecture A comprehensive architectural history of America’s greatest living architectural laboratory.	Yarnall, James L.

	Art - Performance / Art Criticism & Theory / Contemporary Art / Performing Art No Innocent Bystanders The changing role of the spectator in contemporary performance art	Ward, Frazer

	Art & Popular Culture / Art & Politics / Literary Criticism - Comics & Graphic Novels No Laughing Matter The role of race and ethnicity in global humor	Rosenthal, Angela, with David Bindman and Adrian W. B. Randolph

	Historical Photography / Americana / 20th Century U.S. History Once Upon a Playground A nostalgic look at a world of play almost forgotten	Biondo, Brenda

	American Art / Museum Catalog / Art Conservation & Preservation The Painters' Panorama The incredible story of a lost treasure rediscovered and preserved for a new generation	Routhier, Jessica Skwire, and Kevin J. Avery and Thomas Hardiman Jr.

	Anthropology / Photography / Jewish Studies Photographing the Jewish Nation Over 170 amazing photographs of Jewish life in the Pale of Settlement, from S. An-sky’s ethnographic expeditions	Avrutin, Eugene M., Valerii Dymshits, Alexander Ivanov, Alexander Lvov, Harriet Murav, and Alla Sokolova, editors

	Art Criticism & Theory / Photography - Criticism / Media Studies Photography, History, Difference Thinking differently about photography and its histories	Sheehan, Tanya (ed.)

	Biography - Artists / Modern Art Picasso and the Chess Player The dramatic story of art in the twentieth century	Witham, Larry

	American Art / Biography - Artists / Women's Studies Pictures of People An intimate look at the breadth of Neel’s oeuvre	Allara, Pamela

	Individual Artists / Art & Popular Culture / Modern Art Playing with Earth and Sky The influence of astronomy and geography on the great Dadaist	Housefield, James

	Art Criticism & Theory Please RSVP A theory of the collaborative in art	Durham, April

	Art / Art History Please Touch Exploring the notion of tactility in dada and surrealism	Mileaf, Janine

	Architecture / History Porches of North America A complete architectural guide to this well-loved building feature	Visser, Thomas Durant

	Modern Art / Collectable Posters / Graphic Arts & Advertising The Poster A landmark study of posters as art, design, and advertising in the nineteenth century	Iskin, Ruth E.

	Contemporary Art / Asian Art / Graphic Arts & Advertising Postmodern Advertising in Japan A major study of postmodern developments in Japanese advertising and art	Bartal, Ory

	Historic Preservation / Architecture - Study & Teaching / Teaching Methods & Materials Preservation Education Examining pedagogical issues in historic preservation education	Stiefel, Barry L. and Jeremy C. Wells (EDs)

	Creative Writing A Reader’s Delight One of America’s finest essayists writes about 40 literary masterpieces that have been wrongfully forgotten or were ignored in the first place.	Perrin, Noel

	Architecture / Travel & Tourism Resort Hotels of the Adirondacks An architectural study of the large Adirondack hotels that focuses on the cultural history of travel and tourism.	Tolles, Bryant F., Jr.

	Photography / Poetry Robert Frost’s New England Inspired by the writings of Robert Frost, professional photographers Betsy and Tom Melvin present beautiful, and sometimes poignant, scenes of the New England landscape	Melvin, Betsy and Tom. Jay Parini, fwd.

	Art / Biography - Artists Robert Kipniss A successful working artist relates his passion for life and art	Kipniss, Robert

	Contemporary Art Sabra Field 2nd Edition, with 12 Additional Images The first collection of Sabra Field’s landmark prints, with commentary by the artist, now in a second edition with thirteen additional images	Slayton, Tom

	Media Studies / African-American Studies / Photography The Self in Black and White A study of race and authenticity in the photography of the civil rights era and beyond	Duganne, Erina

	Art / Art History Shock and the Senseless in Dada and Fluxus A groundbreaking analysis of two movements of the historical avant-garde	Brill, Dorothée

	Modern Architecture to 1945 / Jewish Studies / Modern Art Style and Seduction Explores the central role of Jewish patrons as shapers of Viennese modernism	Shapira, Elana

	Architecture / New England History Summer by the Seaside A sweeping, richly illustrated architectural study of the large, historic New England coastal resort hotels	Tolles, Bryant F., Jr.

	Contemporary Art / Individual Artists / Sculpture Thomas Hirschhorn The first study in English on the work and theory of a major installation artist	Braun, Christina

	Art Criticism & Theory / Digital Media / Computers - Social Aspect Time and the Digital An original consideration of the temporal in digital art and aesthetics	Barker, Timothy Scott

	Media Studies / Film & Video History & Criticism / Art Criticism & Theory / Criticism Travels in Intermediality The cooperation and collaboration between media, art forms, and cultural studies	Herzogenrath, Bernd, ed.

	Art Criticism & Theory / Art History / Aesthetics / Visual Culture A Violent Embrace An urgent defense of aesthetics and the power of art	hoogland, renée c.

	Art History / American Art The Weir Family, 1820–1920 The first major study to examine the artistic output of Robert Walter Weir and his two sons, John Ferguson Weir and Julian Alden Weir	Wardle, Marian, ed.

	Photography Wild Acadia An inspiring photographic journey to New England’s oldest and most visited national park	Monkman, Jerry and Marcy, Images; Text by Jerry Monkman

	Graphic Arts / Illustration Winter Carnival A celebration of posters from Dartmouth’s famed Winter Carnival	Satterfield, Jay, ed.

	American Art / Sculpture The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens New edition. Updated catalogue raisonné of one of the most important figures in American sculpture.	Dryfhout, John H.

	Architecture - History / Railroad Transportation History / Historic Preservation The World the Trains Made A richly illustrated guide to railroad architecture, in all its surprising variety	Dilts, James D.