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The radical vision of Edward Burne-Jones, Andrea Wolk Rager, Gift of John Wilson

Call number: 759.2/B963/R141

Challenging the dominant characterization of Edward Burne-Jones as an escapist who withdrew from the modern world into imaginary realms of his own creation, this groundbreaking book argues that he was engaged in a fundamentally radical defiance of the age, protesting against imperial aggression, capitalist economic inequality, and environmental destruction in the wake of the industrial revolution. Harnessing the utopian power of embodied aesthetic encounters, Burne-Jones drew inspiration from the medieval concept of dreams as visionary states of transformation. Therefore, his art functioned not as a retreat, but as a vehicle for revolutionary awakening. Often characterized as a painter, this book re-centers Burne-Jones's practice in the decorative arts, demonstrating that he consistently interrogated the boundaries of artistic media, in keeping with wider debates over the role of the arts in the nineteenth century. The first scholarly monograph solely devoted to Burne-Jones since 1973, The Radical Vision of Edward Burne-Jones offers a thorough re-examination of his work, illuminating his radical defiance of the artistic, social, and political hierarchies of nineteenth-century Britain.

Young People
Young People

The Mona Lisa vanishes: a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity, Nicholas Day

Call number: YP 759.5/L555/D274

On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c'est partie! The Mona Lisa, she's gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting? Travel back to an extraordinary period of revolutionary change: turn-of-the-century Paris. Walk its backstreets. Meet the infamous thieves—and detectives—of the era. And then slip back further in time and follow Leonardo da Vinci, painter of the Mona Lisa, through his dazzling, wondrously weird life. Discover the secret at the heart of the Mona Lisa—the most famous painting in the world should never have existed at all.

Compact Disc
Compact Disc

Budapest concert, Keith Jarrett, Gift of the Estate of Barry Levine

Call number: J J28.8 bu

The 2nd complete show to be issued from Keith Jarrett's 2016 European tour, following the acclaimed Munich 2016 concert. This double album documents the pianist's solo performance at Budapest's Bela Bart?k National Concert Hall. Jarrett, whose roots go back to Hungary, saw it as a homecoming; the context inspired much creative improvisation. His later concerts are comprised of independent movements, each a marvel of spontaneous resourcefulness and creative energy.

ART BOOKS

 

Beyond golden clouds: Japanese screens from the Art Institute of Chicago and the Saint Louis Art Museum, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Brush and ink: Chinese paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Camille Claudel

Caspar David Friedrich: Art for a new age

Cy Twombly: Treatise on the Veil 1970, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Inventing the Modern: untold stories of the women who shaped the Museum of Modern Art

Lives of the gods: divinity in Maya art, Gift of John Wilson

Making waves: Japanese American photography, 1920-1940, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Okabe Mineo: living for fire, living for clay, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Sculpture victorious: art in an age of invention, 1837-1901, Gift of John Wilson

The time between: the sequences of Minor White, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Xerografia: copy art in Brazil, 1970-1990, Gift of John Wilson

Paradox Cove, David Booth

Portrait of myself, Margaret Bourke-White

The art of paper: Claire Van Vliet and the Janus Press: papermaking collaborations, John A. Buchtel

Walter Sickert, Emma Chambers, Gift of John Wilson

You must change your life: the story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin, Rachel Corbett, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Encounters with artists, Richard Cork

Phoebe Anna Traquair, 1852-1936, Elizabeth Cumming

Forgotten masters: Indian painting for the East India Company, William Dalrymple, Gift of John Wilson

Pictorial embroidery in England: a critical history of needlepainting and Berlin work, Rosika Desnoyers, Gift of John Wilson

Gesina ter Borch, Adam Eaker

How painting happens (and why it matters), Martin Gayford

Last light: how six great artists made old age a time of triumph, Richard Lacayo

The art of Ukraine, Alisa Lozhkina

Of the first class: a history of the Kimbell Art Museum, Tim Madigan, Gift of John Wilson

The art of American still life: Audubon to Warhol, Mark D. Mitchell, Gift of John Wilson

The story of drawing: an alternative history of art, Susan Owens

The radical vision of Edward Burne-Jones, Andrea Wolk Rager, Gift of John Wilson

Elsa Gramcko: the invisible plot of things, Gabriela Rangel, Gift of John Wilson

Paris in ruins: love, war, and the birth of Impressionism, Sebastian Smee

Rudolph Ihlee: the road to Collioure, James Trollope, Gift of John Wilson

Stunner: the fall and rise of Fanny Cornforth, Kirsty Stonell Walker, Gift of John Wilson

Mondrian: his life, his art, his quest for the absolute, Nicholas Fox Weber

Accidental alchemy: Oliver Simon, Signature magazine and the rise of British Neo-Romantic art, Neil Wells, Gift of John Wilson

Holbein: capturing character, Anne T. Woollett, Gift of John Wilson

Monet: the restless vision, Jackie Wullschläger

The sensuous environment: Sim Bruce Richards, architect, Keith York, Gift of Keith York

ARTISTS' BOOKS

Prayer: Hildegard of Bingen 1098-1179, Margaret Challenger, Gift of Diane Weintraub

More names, Stacie Vos

GRAPHIC NOVELS

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MUSIC BOOKS

 

Distant melodies: music in search of home, Edward Dusinberre, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

REFERENCE BOOKS

 

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SPECIAL COLLECTION

 

Nancy Lorenz: Moon gold, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

YOUNG PEOPLE

 

Small stories of great artists, Laurence Anholt

Dear Vincent, Michael Bird

As Edward imagined: a story of Edward Gorey in three acts, Matthew Burgess

Luna loves art, Joseph Coelho

The Mona Lisa vanishes: a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity, Nicholas Day

Hilma af Klint: an art activity book, Anna Degnbol

Lost in the library: a story of Patience & Fortitude, Josh Funk, Gift of Carol Buckley

Mildred the gallery cat, Jono Ganz

Ruth Asawa: an artist takes shape, Sam Nakahira

LIBRETTO

 

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MUSIC SCORES

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COMPACT DISCS

 

Pierné, Vierne, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Promenade: a musical procession through paintings at Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Viola concertos, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

A winter breviary: choral works for Christmas

Blue camel, Rabīʻ Abū Khalīl, Gift of the Estate of Barry Levine

The gospel according to the other Mary, John Adams, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Round midnight, Harry Allen & Scott Hamilton, Gift of Marie Vickers in honor of F. Norman Vickers, M.D.

Stunden, Tage, Ewigkeiten: Heinrich Heine - Lieder, Benjamin Appl, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

String quartets, Kurt Atterberg, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Gems from Armenia, Aznavoorian Duo

Wozzeck, Alban Berg, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

SWR NEWJazz meeting 2021, Sasha Berliner

Brahms: the Hungarian collection, Johannes Brahms, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

The winds of change, Billy Childs

The Carnegie Hall concert, Alice Coltrane

Bizet: Carmen in jazz, John Ellis

Follow, poet, Mohammed Fairouz, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Concerto for harp and orchestra, op. 74; Concerto for coloratura soprano and orchestra, op. 82, Reinhold Glière, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Azul, Osvaldo Golijov, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving: original soundtrack recording, Vince Guaraldi

Piano music, Ernest Halffter, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Thomas de Hartmann rediscovered, Thomas de Hartmann

Floating, Fred Hersch, Gift of Marie Vickers in honor of F. Norman Vickers, M.D.

Discovering Imogen, Imogen Holst

Orchestral works, Dorothy Howell

Budapest concert, Keith Jarrett, Gift of the Estate of Barry Levine

Mendelssohn, Isata Kanneh-Mason

Piano music, Nikolai Kapustin, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Where we begin, Alex Kautz

Chamber works, Marcelle de Manziarly

Blue interlude, Wynton Marsalis

Romantic piano quintets, Nepomuk Fortepiano Quintet, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Live at the Village Vanguard II, Junko Onishi, Gift of the Estate of Barry Levine

Two brothers, Chico Pinheiro & Romero Lubambo

Trios nos. 3, 5 & 7, Henri Reber, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

With every step, Benjamin Ring

Piano quartet in F major, op. 55bis; Piano quartet in C major, op. 66, Anton Rubinstein, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Salonen, Esa-Pekka Salonen

String quartets, Salvatore Sciarrino, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

String quartets. Volume 1, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Soul bender, Matthew Stubbs

Piano quartet; Four pieces for violin and piano; Piano quintet, Josef Suk, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Coming of age, Ben Williams

I am a man, Ben Williams

LPs

 

There are no new acquisitions at this time.

DVDs

 

The Miró I knew, Rosamond Bernier, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Lucia di Lammermoor, Gaetano Donizetti

Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart