May 1, 2012

May Day 2012 -- new arts books for you

Just request any of them at an SLPL branch, and we'll send them... 


Art History / Design

The Beautiful Walls:  Photographic Elevations of Street Art in Los Angeles, Berlin and Paris, by Larry Yust, photographer and Patrick A. Polk

A Bigger Message:  Conversations with David Hockney  by Martin Gayford

Diana Vreeland:  The Eye Has to Travel  by Lisa Vreeland

In Search of Julien Hudson:  Free Artist of Color in Pre-Civil War New Orleans, exhibition catalog from The Historic New Orleans Collection

The Pulse of Mixed Media:  Secrets and Passions of 100 Artists Revealed  by Seth Apter

Thirty-six Views of the Eiffel Tower:  A Turn-of-the-Century Tribute to the City of Light  by Henri Riviere
 

Architecture

The Architecture of Alfred Browning Parker; Miami’s Maverick Modernist  by Randolph C. Henning

Carrère & Hastings:  The Masterworks

Free University of Berlin: Foster + Partners

The Heights:  Anatomy of a Skyscraper  by Kate Ascher

Luis Barragan:  His House

Rogers Marvel Architects
 

Music

 Look, I Made a Hat; Collected Lyrics (1981-2011)  by Stephen Sondheim

Love goes to Buildings on Fire; Five Years in New York that Changed Music Forever  by Will Hermes
 

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Apocalypse on the Set:  Nine Disastrous Film Productions  by Ben Taylor

The Martial Arts Cinema of the Chinese Diaspora:  Ang Lee, John Woo, and Jackie Chan in Hollywood  by Kin-Yan Szeto

Mike Leigh  by Sean O’Sullivan

21st Century Hollywood:  Movies in the Era of Transformation  by Wheeler W. Dixon