January's New Books in the Arts

A belated Happy New Year to us all!  Technical problems have made it impossible to post updates until now.  As always, if you see a book of interest,  just "Place a Hold" on it from our catalog, or call any branch to ask staff there to place the hold.  It can be sent to any of our branches for pickup.

Art History / Design

 

Amedeo Modigliano:  Portraits and Nudes  by Anette Kruszynski

 

Emerging Fashion Designers 2  by Sally Congdon-Martin

 

Gerhard Richter:  Early Work, 1951-1972 

 

Jackson Pollock  by Ellen G. Landau

 

Robert Rauschenberg Photographs, 1949-1962

 

 

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Architecture

 

Architecture in Uniform; Designing and Building for the Second World War  by Jean-Louis Cohen

 

Clip Stamp Fold:  The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines

 

Constructing the Ineffable:  Contemporary Sacred Architecture

 

Decoding Theoryspeak:  An Illustrated Guide to Architectural Theory  by Enn Ots

 

Extra/ordinary:  Craft and Contemporary Art  edited by Maria Elena Buszek

 

Green Design from Theory to Practice 

 

New York Dozen;  Gen X Architects  by Michael J. Crosbie

 

Reveal:  Studio Gang Architects  by Jeanne Gang

 

 

Photography

 

American Modern:  Documentary Photography by Abbott, Evans, and Bourke-White  by Sharon Corwin, Jessica May, and Terri Weissman

 

 

Crafts

 

Combining Rug Hooking & Braiding:  Basics, Borders, & Beyond  by Kris McDermet

 

 

Music

 

Mysterious Mozart  by Philippe Sollers

 

Writing Gordon Lightfoot:  The Man, the Music, and the World in 1972  by Dave Bidini

 

 

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

 

Composing While Dancing:  An Improviser’s Companion  by Melinda Buckwalter

 

 

Finishing the Hat:  Collected Lyrics (1954-1981)   by Stephen Sondheim

 

 

Antiques / Collectibles

 

It’s All About the Accessories for the World’s Most Fashionable Dolls, 1959-1972  by Hillary Shilkitus James

 

Popular Jewelry of the ‘60s, ‘70s & ‘80s  by Roseann Ettinger

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Holidays with fun new books in the arts!

As always, just "place a hold" on any of these titles to have them sent to the branch of your choice.

Art History / Design / Craft

American Letters, 1927—1947:  Jackson Pollock & Family

Caravaggio and his Followers in Rome  by David Franklin

Portrait Jewels:  Opulence & Intimacy from the Medici to the Romanovs  by Diana Scarisbrick

Romare Bearden, American Modernist  edited by Ruth Fine and Jacqueline Francis

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Architecture

The Biography of a Building:  How Robert Sainsbury and Norman Foster Built a Great Museum  by Witold Rybczynski

Photography

Julius Shulman, Los Angeles:  The Birth of a Modern Metropolis

Music

Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge: The Library of Congress Letters, 1935—1945  edited by Ronald D. Cohen

Chamber Music; A Listener’s Guide  by James M. Keller

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Any Gun Can Play:  The Essential Guide to Euro-Westerns  by Kevin Grant

Fundamentals of Theatrical Design  by Karen Brewster

How to Start Your Own Theater Company  by Reginald Nelson

Masters of Mystery:  The Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle & Harry Houdini  by Christopher Sandford

Television Westerns; Six Decades of Sagebrush Sheriffs, Scalawags, and Sidewinders  by Alvin H. Marill

Mostly Performing Arts

This batch of new arrivals is heavy on the performing arts; take a look...

Art History / Design / Craft

Coast to Coast Album Covers:  Classic Record Art from New York To L. A.  by Graham Marsh

Crafting Modernism:  Midcentury American Art and Design, exhibition catalog from the Museum of Arts and Design

Custom Lettering of the 40’s and 50’s  edited by Rian Hughes

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Architecture

The English Gardening School:  The Complete Master Course...  by Rosemary Alexander

Music

Fire and Rain:  The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970  by David Browne

Out of the Vinyl Deeps:  Ellen Willis on Rock Music  edited by Nona Willis Aronowitz

Movies / Theater / Dance/ TV

The Actor Within:  Intimate Conversations with Great Actors  by Rose Eichenbaum

Conversations with Clint:  Paul Nelson’s Lost Interviews with Clint Eastwood, 1979-1983

Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination:  Georges Melies’s “Trip to the Moon”  edited by Matthew Solomon

Firestorm:  American Film in the Age of Terrorism  by Stephen Prince            

Michael Moore:  Filmmaker, Newsmaker, Cultural Icon  by Matthew H. Bernstein

Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue; Eight Reflections on Cinema  by Murray Pomerance

TARDISbound:  Navigating the Universes of “Doctor Who”  by Piers D. Britton

Antiques / Collectibles

Beatles Memorabilia:  The Julian Lennon Collection by Brian Southall and Julian Lennon

The Unofficial Guide to Harry Potter Collectibles by Kathy J. Wells

...and more

These great new books have just come in.  If you would like to check them out, just request that they be sent to a branch.

Art History / Design / Craft

Art and Homosexuality:  A History of Ideas  by Christopher Reed

Art in the Streets

Futures & Ruins:  Eighteenth-Century Paris and the Art of Hubert Robert  by Nina L. Dubin

Gloria F. Ross & Modern Tapestry  by Ann Lane Hedlund

Living Modern:  The Sourcebook of Contemporary Interiors  by Richard Powers

The Night Banquet:  A Chinese Scroll through Time  by De-nin D. Lee

Picasso and Braque:  The Cubist Experiment 1910-1912, exhibition catalog of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Picasso Guitars, 1912-1914  by Anne Umland, exhibition catalog of the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Picasso Miró Dalí;  Angry Young Men:  The Birth of Modernity, exhibition catalog of the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence

Thomas Lawrence:  Regency Power & Brilliance, exhibition catalog of the Yale Center for British Art and the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Thomas Rowlandson:  Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian England  by Patricia Phagan

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Architecture

David Adjaye:  A House for an Art Collector  by David Adjaye

Eco Skyscrapers:  Volume 2  by Ken Yeang

Kevin Roche:  Architecture as Environment  by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

The Structure of Light:  Richard Kelly and the Illumination of Modern Architecture

Music

The Beatles in Hamburg  by Spencer Leigh

Cambridge Companion to Medieval Music  edited by Mark Everist

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Robert Frank’s ‘The Americans’:  The Art of Documentary Photography  by Jonathan Day

Antiques / Collectibles

Popular Jewelry, 1840-1940, revised 4^th edition  by Roseann Ettinger

New Books pouring in!

More purchases from our new fiscal year funds are arriving almost every day.  To check any of these out, just request them online or ask a library staffer to do it, then pick them up at the branch of your choice.

Art History / Design / Craft

Collecting Modern:  Design at the Philadelphia Museum of Art since 1876

Color  Moves:  Art & Fashion by Sonia Delaunay, exhibition catalog of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

Complete Colored Pencil Book  by Bernard Poulin

de Kooning:  A Retrospective, exhibition catalog from the Museum of Modern Art

Exhibiting Blackness; African Americans and the American Art Museum  by Bridget R. Cooks

The Glass Artist’s Studio Handbook  by Cecilia Cohen

Green Graphics  by Vicky Eckert

Masters:  Book Arts; Major Works by Leading Artists  edited by Eileen Wallace

My Faraway One:  Selected Letters of George O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz  edited by Sarah Greenough

National Museum of China

Romare Bearden:  Southern Recollections 

September:  A History Painting by Gerhard Richter  by Robert Storr

Symbols of Power in Art  by Paola Rapelli

Architecture

Grand Obsessions:  The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin  by Alasdair McGregor

Henry Ives Cobb’s Chicago; Architecture, Institutions, and the Making of a Modern Metropolis  by Edward W. Wolner

Inigo Jones: The Architect of Kings  by Vaughan Hart

Marion Mahony Reconsidered  edited by David Van Zanten

Photography

Man Ray in Paris  by Erin C. Garcia

Music

Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg 

Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings  by Brian Harker

The Record Players:  DJ Revolutionaries  by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton

The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68  by Keith Waters

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Changed for Good; A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical  by Stacy Wolf

Desilu:  The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz  (Expanded edition)  by Coyne Steven Sanders

Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir  by Patrick Keating

Hollywood’s African American Films; The Transition to Sound  by Ryan Jay Friedman

The Official Dick Van Dyke Show Book (Revised & Updated edition)  by Vince Waldron

The Rise of the American Circus, 1716-1899  by S. L. Kotar

Robert Altman; Critical Essays  edited by Rick Armstrong

Second Skin:  Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface  by Anne Anlin Cheng

Antiques / Collectibles

Postwar Pop  by Donald-Brian Johnson

New Books are Arriving Again

The books ordered in the new fiscal year are starting to come in.  This trickle will become a deluge in a few weeks!  As before, to check any of them out, just request them through our catalog or ask a staff member, and you can pick them up at the branch of your choice.

Art History / Design / Craft

Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters:  The Cone Sisters of Baltimore  by Karen Levitov

Color Creates Light:  Studies with Hans Hoffman  by Tina Dickey

Genius Isolated:  The Life and Art of Alex Toth  by Dean Mullaney

Jim Nutt:  Coming into Character  by Lynne Warren

Of What One Cannot Speak:  Doris Salcedo’s Political Art  by Mieke Bal

Piecework Magazine Presents:  A Facsimile Edition of Weldon’s Practical Needlework

Architecture

Ai Weiwei:  Architecture  edited by Caroline Klein

Music

The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock ‘n’ Roll  by Preston Lauterbach

The History of Jazz, 2^nd edition  by Ted Gioia

Mozart and the Nazis:  How the Third Reich Abused a Cultural Icon  by Erik Levi

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Female Action Heroes:  A Guide to Women in Comics, Video Games, Film, and Television  by Gladys L. Knight

The Kid Stays in the Picture  by Robert Evans

Downloadable e-books from SLPL !

SLPL now offers loans of ebooks to our cardholders.

We support these ebook formats:

Kindle and Kindle for PC
Adobe EPUB
Adobe PDF
Open EPUB
Open PDF

So far, fiction titles make up the majority of our e-book titles.  But there are a few arts-related books becoming available.  Many deal with pop culture, such as biographies and memoirs of musicians such as Pat Benatar, Jay-Z, Ice-T, and Amy Winehouse, and books about popular television shows Glee and American Idol. 

Erik Larson's gripping The Devil in the White City is also available; somehow he manages to weave together the story of the architecture of the Chicago World's Fair and a serial killer into a fascinating tale. And a more recent title is Robert K. Wittman's Priceless:  How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures, recounting adventures of the FBI's Art Crime Team.

Just click on this link to get more information and get started:
http://getitnow.slpl.org/AAE39FCE-AFF4-4550-9580-05E49BDC9714/10/506/en/BrowseeBooks.htm