Books received

Afterimage, July-August, 2003

America As Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings, by David E. Nye. The MIT Press/364pp./$29.95 (hb).

Andy Warhol's Blow Job, by Roy Grundmann. Temple University Press/240 pp./$69.50 (hb), $22.95 (sb).

AngloModern: Painting and Modernity in Britain and the United States, by Janet Wolff. Cornell University Press/172pp./$45.00 (hb), $17.95 (sb).

Bill Viola: The Passions, by Josh Walsh. Getty Publications/298pp./$75.55 (hb), $45.00 (sb).

The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art, by Martha Buskirk. The MIT Press/295pp./$39.95 (sb).

Domestic Aesthetic: Household Art 1920-1970, by Jean Bernard Hebey. 5 Continents Editions/360pp./$65.00 (hb).

Drive, by Gregg Bordowitz. Whitewalls/76 pp./$12.00 (sb).

Edward Weston: A Legacy, by Jennifer A. Watts. Merrell/288pp./$75.00 (hb).

Face to Face with the Bomb: Nuclear Reality After the Cold War, by Paul Shambroom. Johns Hopkins University Press/144 pp./$34.95 (hb)

The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, Amelia Jones, ed. Routledge Taylor and Francis Group/560pp./$29.95 (sb).

Film Style and Story: A Tribute to Torben Grodal, Lennard Hojbjerg and Peter Schepelern, ed. Museum Tusculanum Press/252 pp./$29.95 (sb).

Living With His Camera, by lane Gallop, photographs by Dick Blau. Duke University Press/208 pp./$23.95 (hb).

Looking Into Pictures, Heiko Hecht, Robert Schwartz, and Margaret Atherton, ed. The MIT Press/435pp./$55.00 (sb).

New Media: 1740-1915, Lisa Gitelman and Geoffrey B. Pingree, ed. The MIT Press/271pp./$34.95 (hb).

The Night Sky, poems by Federick Morgan, photographs by Gaylen Morgan, introduction by Emily Grosholz. Story Line Press/57pp./$60.00 (hb).

Noir Anxiety, by Kelly Oliver and Benigno Trigo. University of Minnesota Press/352 pp./$54.95 (hb), $19.95 (sb).

Northwest Mythologies: The Interactions of Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan and Guy Anderson, by Sheryl Conkelton and Laura Landau. Tacoma Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press/176pp./$28.00 (hb).

Photography's Other Histories, Christopher Pinney and Nicolas Peterson. Duke University Press/296 pp./$22.95 (sb).

Power Lines: Two Years on South Africa's Borders, by Jason Carter. The National Geographic Society/280pp./$14.00 (sb).

Privatising Culture: Corporate Art Intervention since the 1980's by Chin-tao Wu. Verso/392pp./$17.00 (sb).

Reversing the Lens: Ethnicity, Race, Gender, and Sexuality Through Film, Jun Xing and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, ed. University Press of Colorado/288pp./$45.00 (hb), $19.95 (sb).

Richard Prince, Rosetta Brooks, ed. Phaidon Press Inc./160pp./$39.95 (sb).

Robert Smithson: Learning from New Jersey and Elsewhere, by Ann Reynolds. The MIT Press/364 pp./$39.95 (hb).

Singular Women: Writing the Artist, Kristen Frederickson and Sarah E. Webb, ed. The University of California Press/266 pp./$65.00 (hb), $24.95 (sb).

Schubert's Winterreise: A Winter Journey in Poetry, Image, & Song, poems by Wilhelm Muller, translated by Louise McClelland Urban, forward by John Harbison, essay by Susan Youens, photographs by Katrin Talbot, companion compact disk Paul Rowe, baritone, Martha Fischer, piano. The University of Wisconsin Press in collaboration with The University of Wisconsin--Madison School of Music/234pp./$45.00 (hb).

The Sons and Daughters of Los: Culture and Community in L.A., David E. James, ed. Temple University Press/264pp./$22.95 (sb).

Texas Rangeland, photography by Burton Pritzker, text by Renee Walker Pritzker. University of Texas Press/144pp./$39.95 (hb).

Texas Trilogy: Life in Small Texas Town, by Craig D. Hillis, photography by Bruce F. Jordan. The University of Texas Press/178pp./$29.95 (hb).

Three Screenplays, by E.L. Doctorow. Johns Hopkins University Press/480pp./$36.95 (hb).

What Remains, by Sally Mann. Bulfinch Press/132pp./$50.00 (hb).

Woman by Woman: Erotic Photography, by Stephanie Kunen and Sophie Hack. Prestel/128pp./$39.95 (hb).

The World War II Combat Film: Anatomy of a Genre, by Jeanine Basinger. Wesleyan University Press/394pp./$22.95 (sb).