November 30, 2011

New Books pouring in!

More purchases from our new fiscal year funds are arriving almost every day.  To check any of these out, just request them online or ask a library staffer to do it, then pick them up at the branch of your choice.

Art History / Design / Craft

Collecting Modern:  Design at the Philadelphia Museum of Art since 1876

Color  Moves:  Art & Fashion by Sonia Delaunay, exhibition catalog of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

Complete Colored Pencil Book  by Bernard Poulin

de Kooning:  A Retrospective, exhibition catalog from the Museum of Modern Art

Exhibiting Blackness; African Americans and the American Art Museum  by Bridget R. Cooks

The Glass Artist’s Studio Handbook  by Cecilia Cohen

Green Graphics  by Vicky Eckert

Masters:  Book Arts; Major Works by Leading Artists  edited by Eileen Wallace

My Faraway One:  Selected Letters of George O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz  edited by Sarah Greenough

National Museum of China

Romare Bearden:  Southern Recollections 

September:  A History Painting by Gerhard Richter  by Robert Storr

Symbols of Power in Art  by Paola Rapelli


Architecture

Grand Obsessions:  The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin  by Alasdair McGregor

Henry Ives Cobb’s Chicago; Architecture, Institutions, and the Making of a Modern Metropolis  by Edward W. Wolner

Inigo Jones: The Architect of Kings  by Vaughan Hart

Marion Mahony Reconsidered  edited by David Van Zanten


Photography

Man Ray in Paris  by Erin C. Garcia


Music

Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg 

Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings  by Brian Harker

The Record Players:  DJ Revolutionaries  by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton

The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68  by Keith Waters


Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Changed for Good; A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical  by Stacy Wolf

Desilu:  The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz  (Expanded edition)  by Coyne Steven Sanders

Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir  by Patrick Keating

Hollywood’s African American Films; The Transition to Sound  by Ryan Jay Friedman

The Official Dick Van Dyke Show Book (Revised & Updated edition)  by Vince Waldron

The Rise of the American Circus, 1716-1899  by S. L. Kotar

Robert Altman; Critical Essays  edited by Rick Armstrong

Second Skin:  Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface  by Anne Anlin Cheng


Antiques / Collectibles

Postwar Pop  by Donald-Brian Johnson

November 21, 2011

New Books are Arriving Again

The books ordered in the new fiscal year are starting to come in.  This trickle will become a deluge in a few weeks!  As before, to check any of them out, just request them through our catalog or ask a staff member, and you can pick them up at the branch of your choice.

Art History / Design / Craft

Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters:  The Cone Sisters of Baltimore  by Karen Levitov

Color Creates Light:  Studies with Hans Hoffman  by Tina Dickey

Genius Isolated:  The Life and Art of Alex Toth  by Dean Mullaney

Jim Nutt:  Coming into Character  by Lynne Warren

Of What One Cannot Speak:  Doris Salcedo’s Political Art  by Mieke Bal

Piecework Magazine Presents:  A Facsimile Edition of Weldon’s Practical Needlework


Architecture

Ai Weiwei:  Architecture  edited by Caroline Klein


Music

The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock ‘n’ Roll  by Preston Lauterbach

The History of Jazz, 2nd edition  by Ted Gioia

Mozart and the Nazis:  How the Third Reich Abused a Cultural Icon  by Erik Levi


Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Female Action Heroes:  A Guide to Women in Comics, Video Games, Film, and Television  by Gladys L. Knight

The Kid Stays in the Picture  by Robert Evans