Don's Book & DVD Selections for 2008 

Included here are books about traditional art subjects, as well as architecture, crafts such as beading & quilting, and new art forms such as manga, comics etc. Also included are books on graphic design, which also appear in the Media section, depending on the emphasis.

Student audience: Art, Graphic Design, General, Writing, Community Education

1. 30,000 years of art : the story of human creativity across time and space

2. Adult manga : culture and power in contemporary Japanese society / Sharon Kinsella

3. After the revolution : women who transformed contemporary art / Eleanor Heartney ... [et al.] ; with a foreword by Linda Nochlin

4. Ant Farm, 1968-1978 / by Constance M. Lewallen and Steve Seid ; with additional essays by Chip Lord, Caroline Maniaque, and Michael Sorkin ; and a timeline by Ant Farm

5. Architecture of the absurd : how "genius" disfigured a practical art / John Silber

6. Archive style : photographs & illustrations for U.S. surveys, 1850-1890 / Robin Kelsey

7. Big-eye art : resurrected & transformed / Blonde Blythe ; foreword by Jasmine Becket-Griffith

8. Blythe style / photographs by Gina Garan ; introduction by Junko Wong

9. California video : artists and histories / edited by Glenn Phillips

10. Chagall : a biography / Jackie Wullschlager

11. Chinese posters : art from the great proletarian cultural revolution / Lincoln Cushing and Ann Tompkins

12. Classic chic : music, fashion, and modernism / Mary E. Davis

13. Comic book encyclopedia : the ultimate guide to characters, graphic novels, writers, and artists in the comic book universe / Ron Goulart

14. Comic book nation : the transformation of youth culture in America / Bradford W. Wright

15. Creative weaving / Sarah Howard and Elisabeth Kendrick

16. Cuba : art and history, from 1868 to today / [edited by Nathalie Bondil ; translation, Timothy Bernard et al.]

17. Dandy in the underworld : an unauthorised autobiography / Sebastian Horsley

18. Drawing conclusions : an artist discovers his America / Tracy Sugarman

19. Earthworks : art in the landscape of the sixties / Suzaan Boettger

20. Ethnic knitting discovery : the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and the Andes / by Donna Druchunas

21. Folk style : innovative designs to knit including sweaters, hats, scarves, gloves, and more / Mags Kandis

22. Found art mosaics / Suzan Germond

23. Fra Angelico / Diane Cole Ahl

24. Georgia O'Keeffe : circling around abstraction / essays by Jonathan Stuhlman and Barbara Buhler Lynes

25. Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico : a sense of place / Barbara Buhler Lynes, Lesley Poling-Kempes, and Frederick W. Turner

26. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum collections / Barbara Buhler Lynes

27. Get your house right : architectural elements to use & avoid / Marianne Cusato & Ben Pentreath ; with Richard Sammons & Leon Crier ; foreword by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales ; in association with The Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America

28. Getting a job in architecture and design / David W. Patterson

29. Graphic design : a new history / Stephen J. Eskilson

30. Grids : creative solutions for graphic designers / [introduction by Lucienne Roberts]

31. Henry Moore-- writings and conversations / edited and with an introduction by Alan Wilkinson

32. Hokusai, first manga master / text by Jocelyn Bouquillard and Christophe Marquet ; translated from the French by Liz Nash

33. Hokusai's Mount Fuji : the complete views in color / Jocelyn Bouquillard ; translated from the French by Mark Getlein

34. I am plastic : the designer toy explosion / Paul Budnitz

35. Illustrating children's books : creating pictures for publication / Martin Salisbury

36. Inspirability : 40 top designers speak out about what inspires / [by Pash (Matt Pashkow)]

37. Interior design visual presentation : a guide to graphics, models, and presentation techniques / Maureen Mitton

38. Japanese temari : a colorful spin on an ancient craft / Barbara B. Suess

39. Japanese visual culture : explorations in the world of manga and anime / edited by Mark W. MacWilliams ; foreword by Frederik L. Schodt

40. Knitspeak : an A to Z guide to the language of knitting patterns / Andrea Berman Price ; illustrations by Patti Pierce Stone

41. KRAZY! : the delirious world of anime + comics + video games + art / [edited by] Bruce Grenville ; with Tim Johnson ... [et al.]

42. Lucian Freud paintings / Robert Hughes

43. Mastering beadwork : a comprehensive guide to off-loom techniques / Carol Huber Cypher

44. Material difference : soft sculpture and wall works / by Polly Ullrich

45. Memorabilia quilts : fabulous projects with keepsakes & collectibles / Linda Causee, Rita Weiss

46. New directions in metal clay : 25 creative jewelry projects / CeCe Wire

47. Oceania : art of the Pacific Islands in the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Eric Kjellgren

48. Painting the dark side : art and the Gothic imagination in nineteenth-century America / Sarah Burns

49. Panel one : comic book scripts by top writers / edited by Nat Gertler

50. Picasso, his life and work / Roland Penrose

51. Plastic culture : how Japanese toys conquered the world / Woodrow Phoenix

52. Pop art : a critical history / edited by Steven Henry Madoff

53. Reading comics : how graphic novels work and what they mean / Douglas Wolk

54. Renaissance art reconsidered / [edited by Kim W. Woods, Carol M. Richardson and Angeliki Lymberopoulou]

55. Rescuing da Vinci : Hitler and the Nazis stole Europe's great art : America and her allies recovered it / Robert M. Edsel ; forewords by Lynn H. Nicholas and Edmund P. Pillsbury

56. Textiles of Central and South America / Angela Thompson

57. Textiles of South-East Asia / Angela Thompson

58. The 101 best graphic novels / Stephen Weiner

59. The art of arts : rediscovering painting / Anita Albus ; translated by Michael Robertson

60. The art of natural history : illustrated treatises and botanical paintings, 1400-1850 / edited by Therese O'Malley and Amy R.W. Meyers

61. The art of self invention : image and identity in popular visual culture / Joanne Finkelstein

62. The book as art : artists' books from the National Museum of Women in the arts / Krystyna Wasserman ; with essays by Johanna Drucker and Audrey Niffenegger

63. The complete idiot's guide to designing your own home / by Oreste Drapaca and Abigail R. Esman

64. The cubist painters / Guillaume Apollinaire ; translated, with commentary by Peter Read

65. The death of authentic primitive art and other tales of progress / Shelly Errington

66. The knitter's book of yarn : the ultimate guide to choosing, using, and enjoying yarn / by Clara Parkes

67. The murals of revolutionary Nicaragua, 1979-1992 / David Kunzle

68. The new book of image transfer : how to add any image to almost anything with fabulous results / Debba Haupert

69. The not-so-still life : a century of California painting and sculpture / Susan Landauer, William H. Gerdts, Patricia Trenton

70. The uncommon quilter : small art quilts created with paper, plastic, fiber, and surface design / Jeanne Williamson

71. Things I have learned in my life so far / Stefan Sagmeister ; essays by Steven Heller, Daniel Nettle, and Nancy Spector

72. This is Blythe / photographs by Gina Garan

73. Treasures of China : the glories of the kingdom of the dragon / John Chinnery]

74. Treasures of Islam : artistic glories of the Muslim world / [Bernard O'Kane]

75. Unfiltered : the complete Ralph Bakshi / Jon M. Gibson & Chris McDonnell

76. Wagashi : handcrafted fashion art from Japan / Kumiko Sudo

77. When we were young : new perspectives on the art of the child / edited by Jonathan Fineberg

78. Writing on the wall : word and image in modern art / Simon Morley

79. Yosemite : art of an American icon / edited by Amy Scott