DVDs received March 2014

Blue Jasmine (2013) Dir: Woody Allen ; starring Alec Baldwin, Cate Blanchett, Louis C.K., Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Dice Clay, Sally Hawkins, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg.

Camille Claudel 1915 (2012) Dir: Bruno Dumont ; starring Juliette Binoche, Jean-Luc Vincent, Claire Peyrade. - 'Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel.'

Chasing Ice (2012) Dir: Jeff Orlowski ; featuring : James Balog, Svavar Jońatansson, Adam LeWinter, Tad Pfeffer, Jason Box - 'Chronicles the efforts of nature photographer James Balog to document the receding of the Solheim glacier in Iceland, a consequence of climate change and global warming, in which strategically placed cameras would take one picture every hour for three years.'

Gravity (2013) Dir: Alfonso Cuaroń ; starring Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, additional voices by Ed Harris.

From Grand Theft Auto to Nintendoland : more new (ish) items for game's designers

3Dtotal team. (2012) Digital art masters : Volume 7. London: 3Dtotal Publishing. - we have an almost complete set of the Digital Art Masters series.

Bissell, Tom. (2011) Extra lives : why video games matter. New York: Vintage Books.

Bowden, Steve. (2010) 100 computer games to play before you die. London: John Blake.

Brown, Damon. (2008) Porn & pong : how Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider and other sexy games changed our culture. Los Angeles: Feral House.

Calleja, Gordon. (2011) In-game : from immersion to incorporation. London: MIT Press.

Derakhshani, Randi. (2013) Autodesk 3ds max 2014 essentials. Indianapolis: Wiley & Sons.

Donovan, Tristan. (2010) Replay : the history of video games. Lewes: Yellow Ant.

Edidin, Rachel. (2011) Valve presents: The sacrifice and other steam-powered stories. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse.

Gahan, Andrew. (2010) 3D automotive modeling : an insider's guide to 3D car modeling and design for games and film. Oxford: Focal.

Hogarth, Burne. (1995) Dynamic wrinkles and drapery : Solutions for drawing the clothed figure. New York: Watson-Guptill.
  
Kafai, Yasmin., et al. (2008) Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat : new perspectives on gender and gaming. London: MIT.

Kushner, David. (2012) Jacked : the outlaw story of Grand Theft Auto. Hoboken, NJ.: John Wiley & Sons.

Levene, Rebecca., and Anderson, Magnus. (2012) Grand thieves & tomb raiders : how British video games conquered the world. London: Aurum.

Maslen, Mick and Southern, Jack. (2011) Drawing projects an exploration of the language of drawing.  London: Black Dog.

Mooney, Thomas. (2012) Unreal development kit game design cookbook : over 100 recipes to accelerate the process of learning game design with UDK. Birmingham: PACKT Publishing.

Moore, Richard. (2011) Unreal development kit : a fun quick, step-by-step guide to level design and creating your own game world. Birmingham: PACKT Publishing.

O'Connor, Jennifer. (2010) Mastering mental ray : rendering techniques for 3D & CAD professionals. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley.

Sicart, Miquel. (2011) The ethics of computer games. London: MIT Press.

Thompson, Keith. (2008) Drawing and painting the undead. Newton Abbot: David & Charles.

Thorn, Alan. (2012) UDK game development.  Boston: Course Development.

Yin, Weiye. (2011) Impeccable scene design : for game, animation and film. London : CYPI.

Games design : recently received titles dealing with theory and Practice

Beckmann-Wells, Patricia. (2013) Face it : a visual reference for multi-ethnic facial modelling. Oxford: Focal.

Chatfield, Tom. (2011) Fun Inc. : why games are the twenty-first century's most serious business. London: Virgin.

Daniele, Todd. (2009) Poly-modeling with 3ds Max : thinking outside of the box. Abingdon : Focal Press.

Fabry, Glenn. (2005) Anatomy for fantasy artists : an illustrator's guide to creating action figures and fantastical forms. Newton Abbot: David & Charles.

Gahan, Andrew. (2011) 3ds max modeling for games : insider's guide to game character, vehicle, and environment modeling volume 1. Abingdon : Focal Press.

Harper, Jeffrey, M. (2012) Mastering Autodesk 3ds Max 2013. Indianapolis: John Wiley and sons.

Karlsen, Faltin. (2013) A world of excesses : online games and excessive playing. Farnham: Ashgate.

Masks & sourcebooks : more recently (ish) received books for costume students

Blum, Stella., (ed). (1986) Everyday fashions of the thirties as pictured in Sears catalogs. New York: Dover Publications.

Blum, Stella., (ed). (1981) Everyday fashions of the twenties as pictured in Sears and other catalogs. New York: Dover Publications.

Conlon, Jane. (2001) Fine embellishment techniques : classic details for today's clothing. Newtown, Conn.: Taunton Press.

Fiell, Charlotte., and Dirix, Emmanuelle., (eds). (2012) 1930s fashion : the definitive sourcebook. London: Goodman Fiell.

Fiell, Charlotte., and Dirix, Emmanuelle., (eds). (2011) Fashion sourcebook 1920s. London: Fiell.

Foreman, Jennifer. (2007) Maskwork. Cambridge: Lutterworth. 

Hart, Avril., and Susan North, Susan. (2009) Seventeenth and eighteenth-century fashion in detail. London: V&A.

Hunt, Deborah. (2013) Masks and masked faces : a manual for the construction of 22 masks and their variations. San Juan: Maskhunt Motions.

Mack, John., (ed). (2013) Masks : the art of expression. London: The British Museum Press.

Olian, JoAnne., (ed). (1992) Everyday fashions of the forties as pictured in Sears catalogs. New York: Dover Publications.

Olian, JoAnne., (ed). (2002) Everyday fashions of the fifties as pictured in Sears catalogs. New York: Dover Publications.

Sadako Takeda, Sharon., and Durland Spilker, Kaye. (2010) Fashioning fashion : European dress in detail, 1700-1915. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Yefimova, Luisa., and Aleshina, Tatyana. (2011) Russian elegance : country and city fashion from the 15th to the early 20th century. London: Vivays Publishing.

New course, new titles : books for BA painters, drawers and printmakers Part 1

New items ordered for the BA painters, drawers and printmakers course:

Applebroog, Ida. (2010) Monalisa. London: Art Data.

Blyth, Jim. (2012) Essentials of marketing. Harlow: Financial Times Prentice Hall.

Bourdieu, Pierre., and Haacke, Han. (1995) Free exchange. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Causey, Andrew. (2006) Peter Lanyon : modernism and the land. London: Reaktion.

Causey, Andrew. (2013) Paul Nash : landscape and the life of objects. Farnham: Lund Humphries.

Celmins, Vija. (2004) Vija Celmins. London: Phaidon.

Clark, T. J. (2013) Lowry and the painting of modern life. London: Tate Publishing.

Dillon, Brian. (2009) The end of the line : attitudes in drawing. London: Hayward.

Garcia, Antonio Lopez. (2010) Drawings. Madrid: Tf Editores.

Graw, Isabelle. (2010) High price : art between the market and celebrity culture. New York: Lukas & Sternberg.

Haldermann, Anita., and Schreier, Christoph., (ed) (2010) Rosemarie Trockel : drawings, collages, and book drafts. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz.

Jacobson, Heidi Zuckerman. (2007) Sculptors drawing. Aspen: Aspen Art Museum.

Juerg Judin, Juerg., (ed). (2010) Sandra Vaśquez de la Horra. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz.

Katz, Alex. (2008) Seeing, drawing, making. London: Windsor. 

Kotz, Mary Lynn. (2004) Rauschenberg : art and life. New York: Harry N. Abrams.

Longo, Robert. (2012) Robert Longo : charcoal. Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz.

Lutticken, Sven. (2009) Idols of the market : modern iconoclasm and the fundamentalist spectacle. Berlin: Sternberg Press.