Top 10 Book Suggestions from 2011
If you haven’t completed your holiday shopping, you might consider buying a number of books that we covered in the blog this year, many of which are in stock at The Huntington’s Bookstore & More. Here are some suggestions for consideration.
Over the Moon
Burt and Carol Basney recently came to The Huntington with their daughter’s family and found out in person how their gift from 2007 took center stage in the current exhibition “Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California.”
“California’s First Major Artist”
The Huntington played a significant role in the publication of “Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs,” a new catalogue raisonné published by the Getty. It features two essays by Jennifer A. Watts, curator of photographs at The Huntington, as well as more than 350 photos from the collection.
Occupy New Mexico
In October 1966, Reies López Tijerina led a group in an occupation of Kit Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico. What followed, according to historian and Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow Ramón Gutiérrez, was the “radical spark that starts the militant phase of the Chicano Movement.”
The Middle of Somewhere
“To many people, Nevada is the kind of state you drive through to get someplace else,” says historian Louis Warren. “But if we slow down long enough to consider it, take it in, we can learn a great deal about American history here.”
When Every Day is Labor Day
Echoes of a conference held at The Huntington in April continue to reverberate this Labor Day weekend. “Guest Workers: Western Origin, Global Future” spun out of a traveling Smithsonian exhibition currently on view at the Museum of History and Art, in Ontario, Calif.
