February 1, 2012

February's New Books


Here are our latest acquisitions in Arts subjects.  Just request them and check them out at any of our branches.

Art History / Design

Cats, Dogs, Men, Women, Ninnies & Clowns; The Lost Art of William Steig  by Jeanne Steig

Chinese Export Ceramics  by Rose Kerr

Defining Contemporary Art—25 Years in 200 Pivotal Artworks 

Discovering Leonardo  by Rebecca Tucker

Duncan Phyfe:  Master Cabinetmaker in New York  by Peter M. Kenny

European Sculpture, 1400-1900, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art  by Ian Wardropper

Infinite Jest:  Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine  by Constance McPhee

Leonardo da Vinci; Painter at the Court of Milan  by Luke Syson

Ocean Liner Posters  by Gabriele Cadringher

Open Studios with Lotta Jansdotter

Railway Posters  by Thierry Favre

Recycling & Redesigning Logos:  A Designer’s Guide   by Michael Hodgson


Architecture / Planning / Landscape Architecture

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Sacred Architecture;  Faith, Form, and Technology  by Anat Geva

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesen Illustrated by Vintage Postcards  by Randolph C. Henning

Matter in the Floating World; Conversations with Leading Japanese Architects and Designers  by Blaine Brownell

Shingle Style Architecture for the 21st Century  by E. Ashley Rooney


Photography

Eyewitness:  Hungarian Photography in the Twentieth Century  by Peter Baki

Food Styling:  The Art of Preparing Food for the Camera  by Delores Custer


Music

Best Music Writing 2011 edited by Alex Ross

The Folk Music Revival, 1958-1970  by David Dicaire

Willie Dixon:  Preacher of the Blues  by Mitsutoshi Inaba


Antiques / Collectibles

The Joys of Collecting  by J. Paul Getty