1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows, Women in the Picture, Chasing Me to My Grave, and More in Music and Art | Academic Best Sellers

Best sellers in music and art, September 2021 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

September 2021 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

Cover of Ai Weiwei's 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir1. 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir; Trans. by Allan H. Barr.
Ai, Weiwei
Crown
2021. ISBN 9780553419467 $32.00

2. Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies.
McCormack, Catherine
W. W. Norton
2021. ISBN 9780393542080 $22.95

3. Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South.
Rembert, Winfred
Bloomsbury
2021. ISBN 9781635576597 $30.00

4. Music Is History.
Questlove
Harry N Abrams
2021. ISBN 9781419751431 $29.99

5. Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time.
Cole, Teju
University of Chicago Press
2021. ISBN 9780226641355 $22.50

6. Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres.
Sanneh, Kelefa
Penguin Books
2021. ISBN 9780525559597 $28.00

7. Drawing the Line: What to Do with the Work of Immoral Artists from Museums to the Movies.
Matthes, Erich Hatala
Oxford University Press US
2022. ISBN 9780197537572 $24.95

8. Dvorak's Prophecy: And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music.
Horowitz, Joseph
W. W. Norton
2021. ISBN 9780393881240 $30.00

9. Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms.
Thurman, Kira
Cornell University Press
2021. ISBN 9781501759840 $32.95

10. Gothic: An Illustrated History.
Luckhurst, Roger
Princeton University Press
2021. ISBN 9780691229164 $35.00

11. Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues that Made History.
Von Tunzelmann, Alex
Harpercollins
2021. ISBN 9780063081673 $26.99

12. Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women's Self Portraits.
Higgie, Jennifer
Pegasus Books
2021. ISBN 9781643138039 $27.95

13. Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest.
Raicovich, Laura
Verso
2021. ISBN 9781839760501 $26.95

14. Photography, a Feminist History: Gender Rights and Gender Roles on Both Sides of the Camera.
Lewis, Emma
Chronicle
2021. ISBN 9781797213835 $45.00

15. Who Got the Camera?: A History of Rap and Reality.
Harvey, Eric
University of Texas Press
2021. ISBN 9781477321348 $29.95

16. Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression, & Reflection
Editor: Anne H. Berry
Allworth
2022. ISBN 9781621537854 $19.99

17. Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern.
Dellheim, Charles
Brandeis University Press
2021. ISBN 9781684580569 $40.00

18. Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History
Editor: Briar Levit
Princeton Architectural
2021. ISBN 9781648960062 $27.50

19. Banksy: Completed.
Diehl, Carol
MIT Press
2021. ISBN 9780262046244 $39.95

20. Are the Arts Essential?
Editor: Alberta Arthurs
New York University Press
2022. ISBN 9781479812622 $29.95

21. Art & Graphic Design: George Maciunas, Ed Ruscha, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville; Trans. by Jane Marie Todd.
Buquet, Benoit
Yale University Press
2021. ISBN 9780300249859 $45.00

22. What's Good?: Notes on Rap and Language.
Levin Becker, Daniel
City Lights
2022. ISBN 9780872868762 $22.95

23. Women in Abstraction
Editor: Christine Macel
Thames & Hudson
2021. ISBN 9780500094372 $65.00

24. Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan: Materials, Makers, and Mastery.
Guth, Christine
University of California Press
2021. ISBN 9780520379817 $50.00

25. Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid.
Kafai, Shayda
Arsenal Pulp Press
2021. ISBN 9781551528649 $17.95

26. Turn on the Words!: Deaf Audiences, Captions, and the Long Struggle for Access.
Lang, Harry G.
Gallaudet University Press
2021. ISBN 9781944838843 $34.95

27. Life of Picasso; V. 4.
Richardson, John
Alfred A Knopf
2021. ISBN 9780307266668 $40.00

28. King's Painter: The Life and Times of Hans Holbein.
Moyle, Franny
Harry N Abrams
2021. ISBN 9781419749537 $35.00

29. Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920-1970.
Frampton, Kenneth
Yale University Press
2021. ISBN 9780300238891 $50.00

30. Classical Crossroads: The Path Forward for Music in the 21st-Century.
Slatkin, Leonard
Amadeus
2021. ISBN 9781538152225 $26.95

31. Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows.
Lubow, Arthur
Yale University Press
2021. ISBN 9780300237214 $26.00

32. Value in Art: Manet and the Slave Trade.
Sayre, Henry M.
University of Chicago Press
2022. ISBN 9780226809823 $45.00

33. Listening to Bob Dylan.
Starr, Larry
University of Illinois Press
2021. ISBN 9780252043956 $110.00

34. Presence of the Past in French Art, 1870-1905: Modernity and Continuity.
Thomson, Richard
Yale University Press
2021. ISBN 9780300257106 $70.00

35. Adjusting the Lens: Indigenous Activism, Colonial Legacies, and Photographic Heritage
Editor: Sigrid Lien
University of British Columbia Press
2021. ISBN 9780774866613 $45.00

36. Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera.
Aucoin, Matthew
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2021. ISBN 9780374175382 $28.00

37. Becoming Clara Schumann: Performance Strategies and Aesthetics in the Culture of the Musical Canon.
Stefaniak, Alexander
Indiana University Press
2021. ISBN 9780253058294 $75.00

38. Contemporary Art and Feminism.
Millner, Jacqueline
Routledge
2022. ISBN 9780367492243 $44.95

39. Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism
Editor: Benedict Taylor
Cambridge University Press UK
2021. ISBN 9781108475433 $99.99

40. Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth Century Visual Culture
Editor: Nancy Rose Marshall
University of Pittsburgh Press
2021. ISBN 9780822946533 $55.00

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