March 10, 2018

Women Artist Books on Display

March is Women's History Month.  To celebrate women artists, ignored and marginalized for centuries, books on women visual artists are displayed on our display unit and shelving in the Fine Arts Room.  Here are a few pictures of some of these.  Please visit the room to see more!

The general display cart

Photography

Printmakers

Italian painters

American painters

March 8, 2018

Recent additions for early March, 2018

These great books have been received since our last post -- there is an especially good crop of architecture books this time! 

Reference
Artist’s Market, How and Where to Sell your Art, 2018 ed.
HOK 2017

Art History / Art Theory / Art World
The Silver Caesars; A Renaissance Mystery  by Julia Siemon  


Architecture / Landscape Design / Urban Planning
Architecture Inside-Out; Understanding How Buildings Work  by John Zukowsky  
Don't worry, book is small
Architecture Matters  by Aaron Betsky
The Complete Zaha Hadid
Designing Spaces for Early Childhood Development
Domus, 1928—1939
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg  by Joachim Mischke
Goettsch Partners; Selected Works
How to Build a Skyscraper  by John Hill
New Space: Office II
An Organic Architecture; The Architecture of Democracy  by Frank Lloyd Wright
Open Concept Houses  by Francesc Zamora

Fashion / Interior Decoration
Classical Principles for Modern Design; Lessons from Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman’s The Decoration of Houses  by Thomas Jayne
Eames Furniture Source Book

Photography
Photography at MoMA; 1840--1920
Magnum Atlas: Around the World in 36 Photos from the Magnum Archive

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to
Bridgman’s Complete Guide to Drawing from Life, 5th ed.  
Color: A Practical Guide to Color and Its Uses in Art
Urban Potters: Makers in the City  by Kate Treggiden
Vitamin C: Clay + Ceramic in Contemporary Art
Vogue Knitting, rev. and updated ed.