December 30, 2014

Weatherbird artwork celebrates SLPL's Sesquicentennial!

 Dan Martin, the Post-Dispatch's current Weatherbird artist, has created a special illustration for the library's 150th year anniversary.  We will be celebrating the founding of the first St. Louis Public School Library all during 2015.  Happy New Year!

FULL 150th SLPL Weatherbird

December 12, 2014

Steedman Architectural Library materials on exhibit, now through February

Steedman Library books and other materials are not usually on view to the public, but from December, 2014 through May, 2015, you can see them in the eight display cases in Central's Great Hall.  View one of the elephant folio Piranesis, the collection's oldest book (1521),  a recent artist's book that recreates Palladio's Villa Rotonda, and much more.  Keep up with other Steedman developments on its own blog:
http://steedmanarchitecturallibrary.blogspot.com/





December 11, 2014

Latest arrivals

New arts books are coming in regularly now. Remember that if you can't make it downtown to Central Library, you can request that these titles (well, not the Reference works) be sent to your home branch for pickup.


Reference
Artist’s & Graphic Designer’s Market, 2015
Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601 – 1700, 6th edition
Who’s Who in American Art, 35th ed., 2015

Art History / Art Theory / Art World
Art in America, 1945-1970; Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art,    and Minimalism  edited by Jed Perl
The World is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cezanne, exhibit catalog of the Art Gallery of Hamilton

Architecture / Landscape Design
The English Country House Garden  by George Plumptre
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: Daring by Design  by Anne Hawley
Louis Kahn; House of the Nation
Saarinen Houses  by Jari Jetsonen

Design / Fashion / Interior Decoration / Graphics
Car Posters  by Emmanuel Lopez
Creating a Successful Fashion Collection  by Steven Faerm
Frank Lloyd Wright: The Rooms; Interiors and Decorative Arts  by Margo Stipe
Steampunk Graphics; the Art of Victorian Futurism  by Antoni Cadafalch

Photography
David Hume Kennerly On the iPhone: Secrets and Tips from a Pulitzer Prize winning  Photographer
Digital SLR Cameras & Photography for Dummies  by David D. Busch
Photographic Composition  by Albrecht Rissler
Scanning and Editing your Old Photos  by Heather Morris
She Who Tells A Story; Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World  by Kristin Gresh