June 6, 2018

Our most recent offerings in the visual arts

Take a look at our latest books; they range from serious art history to fun crafting!


Art History / Art Theory / Art World
Double Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John De Menil  by Wm. Middleton
Draw Stronger: Self-Care for Cartoonists & Visual Artists  by Kriota Willberg
Lives of the Surrealists  by Desmond Morris
Misère; The Visual Representation of Misery in the 19th Century  by Linda Nochlin
Peter Paul Rubens; The Homer of Painting  by Gilles Neret
Women: Portraits 1960 – 2000  by Susan Wood

Architecture / Landscape Design / Urban Planning
Amazing Architecture: Marvel at the World’s Coolest Constructions  by Oliver Bennett
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Bachman-Wilson House at Crystal Bridges Museum
Green Escapes: The Guide to Secret Urban Gardens  by Toby Musgrave
Saving Central Park: A History and a Memoir  by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers 


Design / Graphics
Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy, 1966-1967
Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists  by Martha H. Kennedy
Gorey’s Worlds, exhibit catalog of the Wadsworth Atheneum

Fashion / Interior Decoration
Domus 1970 -- 1979
Furnitecture; Furniture that Transforms Space  by Anna Yudina

Photography
Berenice Abbott; A Life in Photography  by Julia Van Haaften
Firecrackers: Female Photographers Now  by Fiona Rogers
On Photography  by Susan Sontag
The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand  by Geoff Dyer
William Eggleston: From Black and White to Color  


Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to
Crafting a Patterned Home  by Kristin Nicholas
Encyclopedia of Acrylic Techniques  by Hazel Harrison
Essential Book of Origami  by Michael LaFosse
Japanese Stitches Unraveled  by Wendy Bernard
Macrame at Home  by Natalie Ranae