The Smithsonian American Art/National Portrait Gallery Library (AAPG) would like to share some of its recent additions to its collections:

Roy Lichtenstein : Meditations on Art. Gianni Mercurio. Milano : Skira ; New York : Distributed in North America by Rizzoli International Publications, c2010.

Contents: Modern postmodern: Roy Lichtenstein / Gianni Mercurio — Lichtenstein: grids silence and art after Manet / Demetrio Paparoni — Connecting the dots / Robert Pincus-Witten — Making an original from a copy / Annabelle Ténèze — Five studios and some musical notes / Frederic Tuten — Meditations on art / interviews selected by Ida Parlavecchio. Modernism and the vernacular ; Beyond the modern ; Beyond Picasso ; Movement and time ; Going abstract ; Mechanization takes command ; Still life ; Frozen brushstroke ; After brushstrokes ; The rational subconscious ; Expressionist codes ; Native pop ; Landscape as iconography — Sources and art references / iconographic research by Elena Paloscia and Evan Reehl Ryer — Roy Lichtenstein: a chronology in brief / Clare Bell.

Subject: Lichtenstein, Roy, 1923-1997 — Exhibitions. N40.1.L69 T7 2010.

The Civil War : A Visual History. Produced in association with the Smithsonian Institution. New York : DK Publishing, c2011.

Contents: An Imperfect Union 1815-1860 – Secession Triggers War 1861 – Clash of Armies 1862 – The Union Tightens Its Grip 1863 – Grant, Sherman, and Total War 1864 – Collapse of the Confederacy 1865 – Legacies of the War 1865-1877.

Subject: United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Pictorial works; United States — History — 1815-1861 — Pictorial works; Confederate States of America — History — Pictorial works; Confederate States of America — History, Military — Pictorial works. E468.7 .C585 2011.

Steichen in Color : Portraits, Fashion & Experiments. Edward Steichen. New York : Sterling Innovation, c2010.

Contents: Photography

Subject: Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973; International Museum of Photography and Film – Collections; Photography, Artistic; Portrait photography; Fashion photography; Color photography; Photographers — United States — Biography. TR647.S812 S7 2010.

Paul Robeson : Film Pioneer. Scott Allen Nollen. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2010.

Contents: Great things to come — Black preacher's ambition : Body and soul (1925) — The growth of an idea : Borderline (1930) — Bloomin' majesty : The emperor Jones (1933) — Imperial palaver : Sanders of the river (1935) — Whale on the Mississippi : Show boat (1936) — Singing king of Casanga : The song of freedom (1936) — Down in the ditch : Big fella (1937) — Enough here for all : King Solomon's mines (1937) — Greener pastures : Jericho (1937) — A people's film : The proud valley (1940) — We were brothers : Native land (1942) — Shantytown shake-up : Tales of Manhattan (1942) — Deep river.

Subject: Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976; African Americans – Biography; African American actors – Biography; African American singers – Biography; Political activists — United States — Biography. CT275.R645 N6 2010.

Robert Rauschenberg. Edited by Ealan Wingate and Emily Florido. New York, NY : Gagosian Gallery ; Munich, Germany : Prestel, c2010.

Contents: Full circle / James Lawrence — Plates. — Rauschenberg's epic vision / John Richardson — Chronology 1925-2008 / Susan Davidson and Joan Young — List of works.

Subject: Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008 – Exhibitions; Art, American — 20th century — Exhibitions. N40.1.R24 G34 2010

Abigail and John Adams : The Americanization of Sensibility. G. J. Barker-Benfield. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Contents: Origins, definitions, and social circumstances — The metropolitan sources of the Adamses' views of sensibility — The meanings of sensibility — The theory of gendered sensibility — Social circles and the reformation of female manners — Young American women enter the world — Particular applications — A woman's struggle over sensibility — Sensibility and reform — Abigail's perspective, public versus private — John Adams and the reformation of male manners — The pleasures and pains of public life — Private perpetuation — Raising children with sensibility — A reformed rake? — The question answered — Conclusion — The Americanization of sensibility.

Subject: Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818; Adams, John, 1735-1826; Sentimentalism; United States — Social life and customs — To 1775; United States — Social life and customs — 1775-1783;

United States — Social life and customs — 1783-1865. CT275.A21 B3 2010.

—Doug Litts

The Smithsonian American Art/National Portrait Gallery Library (AAPG) would like to share some of its recent additions to its collections:

The Suffering of Light: Thirty Years of Photographs. Alex Webb. New York, N.Y. : Aperture, c2011

Contents: Photography

Subject: Webb, Alex, 1952-; Photography, Artistic. TR647.W365 S8 2011.

Lion of Liberty : Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation. Harlow Giles Unger. Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2010.

Contents: Tongue-tied– — Tongue untied — The flame is spread — We are slaves! — To recover our just rights — We must fight! — "Give me liberty– " — "Don't tread on me" — Hastening to ruin — Obliged to fly — A Belgian hare — Seeds of discontent — On the wings of the tempest — A bane of sedition — Beef! beef! beef! — The sun has set in all its glory — Appendix A. The speech — Appendix B. Henry on slavery — Appendix C. Henry's heirs.

Subject: Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799; United States. Continental Congress – Biography; Governors — Virginia – Biography; Legislators — United States – Biography; Virginia — History — Revolution, 1775-1783; United States — Politics and government — 1775-1783; United States — Politics and government — 1783-1789. CT275.H525 U5 2010.

Artists' magazines : an alternative space for art. Gwen Allen. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.

Contents: This is not to be looked at : Artforum in the 1960s and 1970s — The magazine as a medium : Aspen, 1965-1971 — Art on and off the page : 0 to 9, 1967-69 — An artists' magazine : Avalanche, 1970-76 — The magazine as an alternative space : Art-rite, 1973-1978 — The magazine as mirror : File, 1972-1989 — Real life, 1979-1994 — Epilogue : International activity : Interfunktionen, 1968-1975.

Subject: Art, Modern — 20th century – Periodicals; Art, Modern — 20th century – Historiography. N6490 .A58 2011.

John Huston : Essays on a Restless Director. Edited by Tony Tracy and Roddy Flynn. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2010.

Contents: "Let's just see if it matters": an interview with Anjelica Huston / Tony Tracy — Strange but close partners: Huston, romantic comedy and The African queen / Pablo Echart — The ideological adventure of The man who would be king / Julie F. Codell — The way we were and White hunter, black heart: Huston in fiction and reel life / Patrick McGilligan — Huston's Mexico / Richard Vela — The discreet charm of Huston and Buñuel: notes on a cinematic odd couple / Neil Sinyard — Huston and the American South: The night of the iguana and Wise blood / Gary D. Rhodes — Re-visioning the Western: landscape and gender in The misfits / Georgiana Banita — Ethical commitment and political dissidence: Huston, HUAC, Hollywood and Key Largo / Reynold Humphries — King adapter: Huston's famous and infamous adaptations of literary classics / Page Laws — The melodramatic conscience of In this our life / Victoria Amador — The Irish accent of The dead / Michael Patrick Gillespie — A walk with love and death: from the jacquerie of 1358 to the turbulence of 1968 / Peter G. Christensen — The Western, The Westerner, The Westerness: William Wyler, Menippean Satire and John Huston's The life and times of Judge Roy Bean / Lesley Brill — John Huston and an Irish film industry / Roddy Flynn and Diog O'Connell — Recollections of Huston: a conversation with Wieland Schultz-Keil / Tony Tracy.

Subject: Huston, John, 1906-1987 — Criticism and interpretation. CT275.H965 J6 2010.

One Hundred American Paintings. Paul Manoguerra ; with entries by Janice Simon, Lynn Boland, and William U. Eiland. Athens, Ga. : Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, c2011.

Contents: Art for everyone : the legacy of Alfred Heber Holbrook and the American painting collection / Paul Manoguerra — Catalogue / entries by Paul Manoguerra, Janice Simon, Lynn Boland, and William U. Eiland.

Subject: Holbrook, Alfred Heber, 1874-1974; Georgia Museum of Art – Catalogs; Painting, American – Catalogs; Painting — Georgia — Athens — Catalogs. ND205 .G46 2011.

Harriet Hosmer : A Cultural Biography. Kate Culkin. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2010.

Contents: Introduction: A Woman of Her Time – “She Will Do Much for the Cause of Womanhood” – “The Conception of the Stature is Masterly” – “Her Whoe Soul Was Filled with Zenobia” – “It Will Be a Manly Work” – “Female Sculptors Have Ceasted to Be a Novelty” – “Something Has Come into Our Love” – “The Isabella Road Has Been the Longest” – “One of the ‘Old Guard’ of Feminine Progress.

Subject: Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue, 1830-1908; Sculptors — United States – Biography; Women sculptors — United States – Biography; Expatriate sculptors — Italy — Rome – Biography; Art and society — United States — History — 19th century. N40.1.H823 C8 2010. 

—Doug Litts