March 1, 2011

Newly Arrived Books in the Arts

More great books are arriving every week! Get them while they're hot off the presses! Remember you can request any of these online, using your card, and pick them up at any SLPL branch.


Art History / Design / Craft

Abstract Expressionism at the Museum of Modern Art by Ann Temkin

Emerging Fashion Designers by Sally Congdon-Martin

The Essential Durer edited by Larry Silver and Jeffrey Chipps Smith

G: An Avant-Garde Journal of Art, Architecture, Design, and Film 1923-1926 edited by Detlef Mertins and Michael W. Jennings

Gauguin: Maker of Myth edited by Belinda Thompson

The Great Migrator: Robert Rauschenberg and the Global Rise of American Art by Hiroko Ikegami

Henri Matisse: Rooms with a View by Shirley Neilsen Blum

100 Posters, 134 Squirrels…: The Posters of Jay Ryan

Sigmar Polke: Fenster-Windows Grossmunster Zurich

Stephen Jones & The Accent of Fashion

Will Eisner: A Dreamer’s Life in Comics by Michael Schumacher

The World’s Most Influential Fashion Designers by Noel Palomo-Lovinsky


Architecture / Planning / Landscape

Andrea Palladio and the Architecture of Battle, with the Unpublislhed Edition of Polybius’ Histories edited by Guido Beltramini

Jack Lenor Larsen’s LongHouse by Molly Chappellet

New Haiti Villages: Steven Holl Architects by Steven Holl

The Power of Pro Bono: 40 Stories about Design for the Public Good by Architects and Their Clients edited by John Cary

Seeking the Sacred in Contemporary Religious Architecture by Douglas R. Hoffman


Music

Beethoven and the Grosse Fuge: Music, Meaning, and Beethoven’s Most Difficult Work by Robert S. Kahn

Gone to the Country: The New Lost City Ramblers and the Folk Music Revival by Ray Allen

Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan’s Road from Minnesota to the World

In the City: A Celebration of London Music by Paul Du Noyer

Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America’s Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century by Barry Mazor


Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Cinema Today: A Conversation with Thirty-nine Filmmakers from around the World by Elena Oumano

HAIR: The Story of the Show that Defined a Generation by Eric Grode

Kubrick’s Hope: Discovering Optimism from 2001 to Eyes Wide Shut by Julian Rice


Photography

Walker Evans: Decade by Decade by James Crump


Antiques / Collectibles

100 Greatest U.S. Error Coins by Nicholas P. Brown