June 3, 2011

Latest Arrivals - June 3, 2011

All of these books can be checked out by requesting that they be sent to one of our branches.  See the first posting about this, in November 2010, for details.

Art History / Design / Craft

The Art of British Rock  by Mike Evans

The Artist’s Guide to Grant Writing  by Gigi Rosenberg

Asian Art Now  by Melissa Chiu

Basic Identity (commercial graphic design)

Chinese Ceramics from the Paleolithic Period through the Qing Dynasty  by Li Zhiyan et al.

The Dictionary of Fashion History  by Valerie Cumming et al.

Fashion Illustration, 1930 to 1970  by Marnie Fogg

Kiln Forming Glass  by Helga Watkins-Baker

Masterpieces of Italian Design

Pavement Chalk Artist:  The Three-Dimensional Drawings of Julian Beever 

Pop Art   by Martina Angelotti

Street Culture  by Ricoricio

Walls That Speak:  The Murals of John Thomas Biggers  by Olive Jensen Thiesen


Architecture / Planning / Landscape Design

Architecture’s Evil Empire?  The Triumph and Tragedy of Global Modernism  by Miles Glendinning

Stone in Traditional Architecture  by David Campbell

Traditional Japanese Architecture  by Mira Locher

Walls:  Elements of Garden and Landscape Architecture  by Gunter Mader

Wood in Traditional Architecture  by David Campbell



Music


Mountains Come out of the Sky:  The Illustrated History of Prog Rock  by Will Romano


Photography


Advanced Imaging   by Joseph Meehan

Dorothea Lange:  The Crucial Years, 1930-1946


Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Alice Guy Blaché:  Cinema Pioneer  edited by Joan Simon.

From IBM to MGM:  Cinema at the Dawn of the Digital Age  by Andrew Utterson

Hammer Films:  The Unsung Heroes  by Wayne Kinsey


Antiques / Collectibles

Guide Book of Modern United States Proof Coin Sets  by David W. Lange