We have added a number of interesting new books to the collection. See below for information and a link to the titles. Titles have been selected based on their variety, uniqueness, accessibility and their relevance to the undergraduate curriculum in this subject area.. If you need help accessing ebooks, please reach out to the library at reference@mountsaintvincent.edu or 718-405-3398
by Emily Hilliard
"Emily Hilliard explores contemporary folklife in West Virginia and challenges the common perception of both folklore and Appalachian culture as static, antiquated forms, offering instead the concept of visionary folklore"
Noah Charney
"Curious but afraid you might not "get" it? Already a fan and wishing to immerse yourself in a fun, engaging, informative and informed read that will refresh and top up your Art History 101 and Introduction to Art courses from college? The 12-Hour Art Expert: Everything You Need to Know about Art in a Dozen Masterpieces avoids the common approach of throwing hundreds of images at a reader and expecting them to learn from and memorize them all."
Zane Cerpina and Stahl Stenslie
"More than sixty speculative art and design projects explore how art, food, and creative thinking can prepare us for future catastrophes. In the Age of the Anthropocene--an era characterized by human-caused climate disaster--catastrophes and dystopias loom."
Jim Kristofic
"Our buildings are making us sick. Our homes, offices, factories, and dormitories are, in some sense, fresh parasites on the sacred Earth, Nahasdzáán. In search of a better way, author Jim Kristofic journeys across the Southwest to apprentice with architects and builders who know how to make buildings that will take care of us."
Denis Clavreul, David Allen Sibley, and Martha Le Cars
"An artist's uniquely personal journey across America In the nineteenth century, ornithologist and painter John James Audubon set out to create a complete pictorial record of North American birdlife"
Michelle Tolini Finamore
"Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour celebrates the history of American attire, from the cowboy boot to the zoot suit."
Jacques Ranciere and Emiliano Battista
"The time of the landscape is not the time when people started describing gardens, mountains and lakes in poems or representing them in works of art: it is the time when the landscape imposed itself as a specific object of thought."
Nile Green
"A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world's largest continent"
