January 6, 2011

Happy New Year! Here are our most recent acquisitions; you are welcome to check them out by having them sent to one of our branches. For details, see earlier posts.


Art History, Design

Green Interior Design by Lori Dennis

Illuminated Manuscripts of Germany and Central Europe in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Thomas Kren

Joe Jones: Radical Painter of the American Scene [St. Louis Art Museum exhibit]

Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam by Ladan Akbarnia

The Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC [MFA Boston exhibit]

Théodore Géricault by Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer

The Victoria and Albert Museum by Lucy Trench

Willem De Kooning: The Artist’s Materials by Susan F. Lake


Architecture / Planning / Landscape

Acropolis Museum Athens by Bernard Tschumi

Catalogue of the Andrew Alpern Collection of Drawing Instruments by the Avery Architectural Library, Columbia University

Josep Lluis Sert: Fundació Joan Miró

Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities by Witold Rybczynski

Scottish Baronial Castles 1250—1450 by Michael Brown

Stairways by Hans Weidinger

Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White; Art, Architecture, Scandal, and Class in America’s Gilded Age by Mosette Broderick


Photography

Jack London: Photographer by Jeanne Campbell Reesman, et al.

New Orleans 1867: Photographs by Theodore Lilienthal by Gary A. Van Zante


Music

An Illustrated History of Gospel by Steve Turner