Usually this post is preceded by receiving the Taschen holiday catalog. No catalog this year, but there are so many great books out this year I’ve decided to just go forward. So here’s a list of what I think are pretty interesting reads.
Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? – Jean Braudrillard.
I think the key to this book is in it’s brevity as well as it’s frequent uses of art and in particular photography to exemplify the distance between human and natural. University of Chicao Press
The Rockabillies – Jennifer Greenburg. (photo Above)
Greenburg’s carefully done photographs reflect the attention to detail required for introducing a contemporary sub-culture (to depict any any subculture really). Published by Center For American Places
Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century) – Steven Henry Madoff
A compendium of voices – Theorists, Artists, Administrators, Student , and Curators. Think of this as a road map for future learning. MIT Press
Your Flying Car Awaits: Robot Butlers, Lunar Vacations, and Other Dead-Wrong Predictions From the 20th Century
That pretty much says it all. Harper Perennial
The Years Work in Lebowski Studies – Edward P. Comentale & Aaron Jaffe
Something here for the slacker and something here for the scholar – just don’t spill your beverage. Michigan State University