April 13, 2015

Latest batch of new books


Cover image for The secret history of Wonder Woman / Jill Lepore.  

For your viewing and learning pleasure, take a look at these great books that have come in recently:








Reference
Society of Illustrators 56th Annual of Illustration

Art History / Art Theory / Art World
American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf Coast  by Paul Carr Black
aka Marcel Duchamp: Meditations on the Identities of an Artist
J. M. W. Turner  by Sam Smiles
The Long March of Pop: Art, Music, and Design 1930-1995  by Thomas Crow
The Religious Art of Pablo Picasso  by Jane Daggett Dillenberger
Why the Romantics Matter  by Peter Gay

Architecture / Landscape Design
Ando: Complete Works, 1975 – 2014  by Philip Jodidio
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Pope-Leighey House  by Steven M. Reiss
Picturing Wright: An Album from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Photographer  by Pedro E. Guerrero

Photography
Candida Höfer: Düsseldorf
Chuck Close Photographer  by Colin Westerbeck
Robert Herman: The New Yorkers
The World’s Top Wedding Photographers  by Bill Hurter

Design / Fashion / Interior Decoration / Graphics
Designing Here/Now: A Global Selection of Objects, Concepts, and Spaces for the Future
In Fashion: From Runway to Retail  by Annemarie Iverson
The Secret History of Wonder Woman  by Jill Lepore

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to
Creating Textures in Colored Pencil  by Gary Green
Hot Knots: Fresh Macrame Ideas  by Kat Hartmann
Pretty Papercrafts  by Mareike Grun
Unconventional & Unexpected; American Quilts Below the Radar  by Roderick Kiracofe

Antiques / Collectibles
100 Greatest U. S. Modern Coins, 3rd Ed.  by Scott Schechter
Warman’s Coins and Paper Money; Identification and Price Guide, 6th Ed.