The Story of Contemporary Art, Latinx Photography, Black Feminist Sound, and More in Music and Art | Academic Best Sellers

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

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

Cover of The Story of Contemporary Art (a gray floor and wall)1. Story of Contemporary Art.
Godfrey, Tony
MIT Press
2020. ISBN 9780262044103. $39.95

2. Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History.
Ferrer, Elizabeth
University of Washington Press
2020. ISBN 9780295747620. $99.00

3. Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound.
Brooks, Daphne
Belknap Harvard
2021. ISBN 9780674052819. $39.95

4. How Photography Became Contemporary Art: Inside an Artistic Revolution from Pop to the Digital Age.
Grundberg, Andy
Yale University Press
2021. ISBN 9780300234107. $40.00

5. Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll.
Mahon, Maureen
Duke University Press
2020. ISBN 9781478010197. $109.95

6. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir.
Zauner, Michelle
Alfred A Knopf
2021. ISBN 9780525657743. $26.95

7. Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now.
Gormley, Antony
Thames & Hudson
2020. ISBN 9780500022672. $60.00

8. Graphis Design Annual; 2021.
Editor: B. Martin Pedersen
Graphis
2020. ISBN 9781931241946. $90.00

9. We Are Here: Visionaries of Color Transforming the Art World.
Hernandez, Jasmin
Harry N Abrams
2021. ISBN 9781419747595. $35.00

10. Abstract Art: A Global History.
Karmel, Pepe
Thames & Hudson
2020. ISBN 9780500239582. $85.00

11. How Design Makes Us Think.
Adams, Sean
Princeton Architectural
2021. ISBN 9781616899721. $60.00

12. Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design.
Wilson, Kristina
Princeton University Press
2021. ISBN 9780691208190. $39.95

13. Going There: Black Visual Satire.
Powell, Richard J.
Yale University Press
2020. ISBN 9780300245745. $50.00

14. Making History: The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts.
Editor: Nancy Marie Mthlo
University of New Mexico Press
2020. ISBN 9780826362094. $39.95

15. When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras.
Harold, Claudrena N.
University of Illinois Press
2020. ISBN 9780252043574. $125.00

16. Strange Loop.
Jackson, Michael R.
Theatre Communications
2020. ISBN 9781559369930. $15.95

17. Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South.
Bradley, Regina N.
University of North Carolina Press
2021. ISBN 9781469661957. $95.00

18. Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly.
Guerrilla Girls
Chronicle
2020. ISBN 9781452175812. $30.00

19. On Photographs.
Campany, David
MIT Press
2020. ISBN 9780262044240. $34.95

20. Designing a New Tradition: Lois Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness.
Vandiver, Rebecca
Penn State University Press
2020. ISBN 9780271086040. $59.95

21. Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism.
Fournier, Lauren
MIT Press
2021. ISBN 9780262045568. $35.00

22. Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth.
Spitzer, Michael
Bloomsbury
2021. ISBN 9781635576245. $35.00

23. Pensive Image: Art as a Form of Thinking.
Grootenboer, Hanneke
University of Chicago Press
2021. ISBN 9780226717951. $35.00

24. Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe.
Darke, Diana
Hurst & Company
2020. ISBN 9781787383050. $29.95

25. Art Museum in Modern Times.
Saumarez Smith, Charles
Thames & Hudson
2021. ISBN 9780500022436. $39.95

26. Not Your Mother's Mammy: The Black Domestic Worker in Transatlantic Women's Media.
Walters, Tracey Lorraine
Rutgers University Press
2021. ISBN 9781978808584. $120.00

27. Beethoven: A Political Artist in Revolutionary Times.
Kinderman, William
University of Chicago Press
2020. ISBN 9780226669052. $35.00

28. Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries that Inspired the Golden Age of Animation.
Mitenbuler, Reid
Atlantic Monthly
2020. ISBN 9780802129383. $28.00

29. Two Thumbs Up: How Critics Aid Appreciation.
Ross, Stephanie
University of Chicago Press
2020. ISBN 9780226064284. $45.00

30. Music, Math, and Mind: The Physics and Neuroscience of Music.
Sulzer, David,
Columbia University Press
2021. ISBN 9780231193788. $120.00

31. Why Monet Matters: Meanings Among the Lily Pads.
Rubin, James Henry
Penn State University Press
2021. ISBN 9780271086200. $99.95

32. Prints and Their Makers.
Sanders, Phil
Princeton Architectural
2021. ISBN 9781616898182. $75.00

33. Dark Toys: Surrealism and the Culture of Childhood.
Hopkins, David
Yale University Press
2021. ISBN 9780300225747. $50.00

34. Science and Psychology of Music: From Beethoven at the Office to Beyonce at the Gym.
Editor: William Forde Thompson
Greenwood
2021. ISBN 9781440857713. $97.00

35. Sound History: Lawrence Gellert, Black Musical Protest, and White Denial.
Garabedian, Steven P.
University of Massachusetts Press
2020. ISBN 9781625345295. $90.00

36. Goring's Man in Paris: The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World.
Petropoulos, Jonathan
Yale University Press
2021. ISBN 9780300251920. $37.50

37. Design of Race: How Visual Culture Shapes America.
Fine, Peter Claver
Bloomsbury
2021. ISBN 9781474299565. $90.00

38. Mozart: The Reign of Love.
Swafford, Jan
HarperCollins
2020. ISBN 9780062433572. $45.00

39. Rarities of These Lands: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Dutch Republic.
Swan, Claudia
Princeton University Press
2021. ISBN 9780691207964. $65.00

40. Vitamin D3: Today's Best in Contemporary Drawing.
Phaidon Editors
Phaidon
2021. ISBN 9781838661694. $75.00

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