March 30, 2012

Welcome April with New Books on the Arts

More great new titles have come in to end the month of March on a high note.  If you would like to check any of these books out, just place a "hold" on them from your computer or contact any SLPL branch.

Art History / Design

Andy Warhol:  The Early Sixties, exhibition catalog from the Kunstmuseum Basel

Atomic Ranch:  Midcentury Interiors  by Michelle Gringeri-Brown

Constable and Salisbury:  The Soul of Landscape  by Timothy Wilcox

The Controversy of Renaissance Art  by Alexander Nagel

Design After Modernism:  Furniture and Interiors 1970-2010  by Judith Gura

Francois Berthold Studio:  The Art of Fashion Illustration

Labeling America:  Popular Culture on Cigar Box Labels  by John Grossman

Nam June Paik,  exhibition catalog from Tate Liverpool


Crafts / Applied Arts / How-To Books

Arts & Crafts of the Native American Tribes  by Michael G. Johnson

Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement  by Suzi Parron

Masters:  Polymer Clay; Major Works by Leading Artists  by Rachel Carren

The Profitable Artist:  A Handbook for All Artists in the Performing, Literary, and Visual Arts

Quilts 1700-2010:  Hidden Histories, Untold Stories, exhibition catalog from the V & A

Textiles:  The Whole Story; Uses, Meanings, Significance  by Beverly Gordon


Architecture / Planning / Landscape Design

The Badia of Florence:  Art and Observance in a Renaissance Monastery  by Anne Leader

 
Bernard Maybeck:  Architect of Elegance  by Mark Anthony Wilson

The Ecological House:  Sustainable Architecture around the World  by Marco Moro

Louis Sullivan; Creating a New American Architecture  by Patrick F. Cannon

The Reichstag:  Foster + Partners  by  Norman Foster


Music

Long Lost Blues:  Popular Blues in America, 1850-1920  by Peter C. Muir

Making your Mark in Music; Stage Performance Secrets  by Anika Paris


Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

The Astaires:  Fred & Adele  by Kathleen Riley

Cannes Cinema:  A Visual History of the World’s Greatest Film Festival  by Serge Toubiana

 
Cinema Italiano:  The Complete Guide from Classics to Cult  by Howard Hughes

Fifty Contemporary Film Directors (2nd edition)  edited by Yvonne Tasker

100 Film Musicals;  BFI Screen Guides  by Jim Millier

The Philosophy of Spike Lee  edited by Mark T. Conard


Antiques / Collectibles

A Kind of Archeology; Collecting American Folk Art, 1876-1976  by Elizabeth Stillinger

 
Chinese Bronze Ware  by Li Song

Chinese Ceramics  by Fang Lili