Welcome Summer with beautiful and informative arts books

Here are our latest acquisitions.  Some are beautiful, some are useful, some are fun, but all are worthwhile!  To check them out, just "place a hold" on them online or call your nearest branch.  In six months, you'll be able to see them and check them out at the restored Central Library downtown.

Art History / Design

A Curator’s Quest:  Building the Collection of Painting and Sculpture of The Museum of Modern Art, 1967-1988  by William Rubin

Fashion Details:  1000 Ideas from Neckline to Waistline, Pockets to Pleats

Furnishing a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Collection of Italian Furniture  by Fausto Calderai

Galileo’s Muse; Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts  by Mark A. Peterson

Maria Pergay: Complete Works 1957—2012

 

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Architecture

No Nails, No Lumber; The Bubble Houses of Wallace Neff  by Jeffrey Head

Project Japan: Metabolism Talks  by Rem Koolhaas

The Theatres of Inigo Jones and John Webb by John Orrell

 

Photography

Cindy Sherman; History Portraits  by Christa Dottinger

Music

Carla Bley  by Amy C. Beal

Piano Manual:  Buying, problem-solving, care, repair and tuning  by John Bishop

Sweat, Tears, and Jazz Hands: The Official History of Show Choir from Vaudeville to Glee  by Mike Weaver

Verdi and/or Wagner  by Peter Conrad