Welcome Spring with beautiful new Art Books

After several weeks of no deliveries, we just received a big bunch of beautiful books.  Several are lovely books about jewelry, so we've given them a special section.   As always, if you would like to check any of these books out, just place a request on them and pick them up at any of our branches.

Art History / Design

Alex Steinweiss:  The Inventor of the Modern Album Cover  by Kevin Reagan

Graphic Design:  Now in Production, exhibition catalog from the Walker Art Center

Graphic Design Referenced:  A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications, and History of Graphic Design  by Bryony Gomez-Palacio

Stieglitz and his Artists:  Matisse to O’Keeffe; The Alfred Stieglitz Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Through African Eyes:  The European in African Art, 1500 to Present, exhibition catalog of the Detroit Institute of Arts

Special Feature:  Jewelry

Artful Adornments:  Jewelry from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Crown Jewels  by Anna Keay

Jewelry by Artists:  In the Studio, 1940-2000; Selections from the Daphne Farago Collection

Turkmen Jewelry:  Silver Ornaments from the Marshall & Marilyn R. Wolf Collection

21^st Century Jewelry:  The Best of the 500 Series  by Marthe Le Van

Vintage Jewelry Design:  Classics to Collect and Wear  by Caroline Cox

Architecture / Planning/ Landscape Design

Adirondack Style:  Great Camps and Rustic Lodges  by F-Stop Fitzgerald

The Invisible Element of Place:  The Architecture of David Salmela  by Thomas Fisher

The Life and Death of Buildings:  On Photography and Time  by Joel Smith

Railroad Stations:  The Buildings that Linked the Nation  by David Naylor

21^st Century London:  The New Architecture  by Kenneth Powell

The Looshaus  by Christopher Long
 

Photography

The Changing Face of Portrait Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital  by Shannon Thomas Perich

FP365:  A One-Year Photographic Diary of Forest Park  by Alex Paradowski

The Radical Camera:  New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951  by Mason Klein

What Photography Is  by James Elkins

Crafts and How-to Books

The Ceramics Bible:  The Complete Guide to Materials and Techniques  by Louisa Taylor

Classic Portrait Painting in Oils:  Keys to Mastering Diverse Skin Tones  by Chris Saper

Woodburning Project & Pattern Treasury  by Deborah Pompano

Music

Changing Lives:  Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music  by Tricia Tunstall

Group Harmony:  The Black Urban Roots of Rhythm & Blues  by Stuart L. Goosman

Music of the 1990s  by Thomas Harrison

The Resurrection of Johnny Cash  by Graeme Thomson
 

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

The Chinese Cinema Book  edited by Song Hwee Lim

I Want My MTV:  The Uncensored Story of the Music video Revolution  by Craig Marks

The Literary Monster on Film; Five 19^th Century British Novels & Their Cinematic Adaptations  by Abigail Burnham Bloom

Three Stooges FAQ  by David J. Hogan