It's June already!  We have many new and beautiful books on the visual arts for your delectation.  Come on by the Fine Arts Room in person, or put these on request to be sent to your favorite branch.

Reference

Handbook of United States Coins 2020

Marvel Encyclopedia, new ed.  by Tom DeFalco

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

A Big Important Art Book Now With Women!  By Danielle Krysa

The Christian Year in Painting  by John S. Dixon

Reading Art: Art for Book Lovers  by David Trigg

The Short Story of Modern Art  by Susie Hodge

Thiebaud; Delicious Metropolis: The Desserts and Urban Scenes of Wayne Thiebaud

Wayne Thiebaud, Draftsman  by Isabelle Dervaux

Architecture / Landscape Design / Urban Planning

Balkrishna Doshi; Architecture for the People

English Medieval Church Towers; The Northern Province  by W. E. David Ryan

Hare & Hare, Landscape Architects and City Planners  by Carol Grove

John Vinci, Life and Landmarks  by Robert Sharoff

Kengo Kuma Complete Works  by Kenneth Frampton

Little House in the City  by Marc Vassallo

Off the Grid; Houses for Escape  by Dominic Bradbury

Pet-tecture; Design for Pets  by Tom Wainwright

Graphics / Drawing

 The Labyrinth  by Saul Steinberg

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to

How to Paint; A Complete Beginner’s Guide o Watercolors, Acrylics, and Oils  by Angela Gair

Living with Flowers; Blooms & Bouquets for the Home  by Rowan Blossom

Mini Knitted Cosmos  by Sachiyo Ishii  

Photography

Ai Weiwei: Beijing Photographs 1993-2003

Cameraless Photography  by Martin Barnes

Elliott Erwitt’s New York

Frame-by-Frame Stop Motion, 2^nd ed.  by Tom Gasek

Portraits  by Steve McCurry

Untold: The Stories Behind the Photographs  by Steve McCurry

April 2019's newest art books

These wonderful new books arrived this past month, all for your enjoyment and edification!  Enjoy!

Reference

Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801—1900, 9^th ed.

Standard Catalog of World Paper Money, Modern Issues, 1961—Present, 25^th ed.

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

A New Way of Seeing: The History of Art in 57 Works  by Kelly Grovier

Botticelli: Heroines & Heroes, exhibit catalog of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Elizabethan Treasures; Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver

Projects  by Andy Goldsworthy

So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch  by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Titian  by Ian G. Kennedy  

Architecture / Landscape Design / Urban Planning

Architectural Guide: Rome; Buildings and Projects after 1945

The Classical American House

Elizabeth de Portzamparc

The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens  by Linda Chisholm

Le Corbusier Le Grand

Mark Foster Gage: Projects and provocations

Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide  by Sam Lubell

Shop Drawings for Craftsman Inlays & Hardware

Snøhetta; Collective Intuition

Victor Lundy: Artist Architect

What’s What in a Wat: Thai Buddhist Temples  by Carol Stratton

Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture 2018

Fashion / Interior Decoration / Design

Art Deco Interiors  by Henry Delacroix

Knoll Furniture, 1938-1960, 2^nd ed.  by Steven/Linda Rouland

Logo-a-Gogo  by Rian Hughes

Making Rooms Your Own; Lessons from Interior Designers

Verner Panton: Environments, Colours, Systems, Patterns  by Ida Engholm

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to

Block Print Magic  by Emily Louise Howard

The Ceramics Studio Guide; What Potters Should Know  by Jeff Zamek

Drawing Tools & Materials; A Practical Guide

Landscapes in Oil; A Contemporary Guide to Realistic Painting in the Classical Tradition  by Ken Salaz

Stained Glass Projects for Beginners  by Lynette Wrigley

Photography

Betty Kuhner: The American Family Portrait

Gordon Parks; The New Tide; Early Work 1940—1950  by Philip Brookman  

Bid farewell to winter with these great new arts books!

This diverse selection of visual arts and crafts books have arrived in the past two months.  Take a look and enjoy!

Reference

Kehinde Wiley: St. Louis  

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

Arthur Osver; Urban Landscape, Abstraction, and the Mystique of Place, exhibit catalog from….;

A Reckoning  by Judy Chicago

American Art Pottery: The Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection

The Art of Reading; An Illustrated History of Books in Paint  by Jamie Camplin

Beyond the Nile; Egypt and the Classical World

I Too Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100  by Will Haygood

The Last Painting: Final Works of the Great Masters, From Giotto to Twombly  by Bernard Chambaz

Micromosaics  by Heike Zeck

New Media Futures: The Rise of Women in the Digital Arts

New Media Installation; Technology in Public Art

The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World

Performance Now; Live Art for the 21^st Century  by RoseLee Goldberg

William Bouguereau; The Essential Works  by Frederick C. Ross

Architecture / Landscape Design / Urban Planning   

Alexander Girard, Architect  by Deborah Kawsky

Architectural Guide: Oslo  by Henning Nielsen

Gardens of the Arts & Crafts Movement, rev. ed.  by Judith B. Tankard

John McAndrew’s Modernist Vision  by Mardges Bacon

Kensington Palace: Art, Architecture and Society

Modernism and American Mid-20th Century Sacred Architecture

Fashion / Interior Decoration / Design  

Design for Children  by Kimberlie Birks

Kitchen Ideas You Can Use  by Chris Peterson

Perfect English  by Ros Byam Shaw

Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America  by Monica Obniski

Thinking in Icons  by Felix Sockwell

Who’s Afraid of Pink, Orange & Green?  by Iris de Feijter

Graphics / Drawing

American Comic Book Chronicles: 1990—99  by Jason Sacks

Strokes of Genius 10

The Two-Pencil Method  by Mark Crilley

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to

American Quilts in the Industrial Age, 1760-1870; The International Quilt Study Cenger & Museum Collections

The Art of Crochet Blankets  by Rachele Carmona

Chinese Embroidery; An Illustrated Stitch Guide  by Shao Xiaocheng   

Corner to Corner Crochet  by Jess Coppom

Feminist Icon Cross-Stitch  by Anna Fleiss

Freestyle Embroidered Mandalas  by Hazel Blomkamp

Garden Stitch Life; 50 Embroidery Motifs & Projects to Grow your Inspiration  by Kazuko Aoki

Gradient Style: Color-Shifting Techniques & Knitting Patterns

The Handmade Quilt; A Complete Skill-Building Sampler  by Carolyn Forster

Modelling and Sculpting the Figure  by Tanya Russell

Sue Stratford’s Knitted Aviary; A Flock of 21 Beautiful Birds to Knit

The Ultimate Brush Lettering Guide  by Peggy Dean

New Year, New Arts Books!

Lots of great new arty books have arrived this month!  Take a look:

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

Berthe Morisot, Woman Impressionist, exhibit catalog of several museums

Botticelli  by Barbara Deimling

Broad Strokes; 15 Women Who made Art and Made History  by Bridget Quinn

Churchill; The Statesman as Artist

Flying Too Close to the Sun; Myths in Art from Classical to Contemporary

Hundertwasser; The Power of Art  by Pierre Restany

Kiki Smith [2000 Words]

Little Dancer Aged Fourteen: The True Story Behind Degas’s Masterpiece  by Camille Laurens

The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin at the Legion of Honor  by Martin Chapman

The Texas Post Office Murals; Art for the People  by Philip Parisi

Architecture / Landscape Design / Urban Planning

Architectural Digest: Autobiography of a Magazine 1920-2010  by Paige Rense

Dorset [Buildings of England series]

Graphics / Drawing

The Art of the Graphic Memoir  by Tom Hart

Learn to Draw Star Wars Villains  by Russell Walks

Prints Galore: The Art and Craft of Printmaking  by Angie Franke

Fashion / Interior Decoration / Design

Be Bold: Interiors for the Brave of Heart  by Emily Henson

Colefax & Fowler Inspirational Interiors  by Roger Banks-Pye

Holistic Spaces 108 Ways to Create a Mindful and Peaceful Home  by Anjie Cho

Home: The Elements of Decorating  by Emma Blomfield

Homes with Soul; Designing with Heart  by Orly Robinzon

Inspired Design: The 100 Most Important Interior Designers of the Past 100 Years  by Jennifer Boles

Insta-Style for your Living Space  by Joanna Thornhill

On Interior Design  by Penny Drue Baird

Spectrum: Heritage Patterns and Colors

Photography

Lewis Hine; When Innovation was King: The WPA National Research Project Photographs, 2936-37  by Judith Mara Gutman

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to

Beginner’s Guide to Linocut  by Susan Yeates

Craft the Rainbow; 40 Colorful Paper Projects  by Brittany Watson Jepsen

Crepe Paper Flowers  by Lia Griffith

Daily Rituals: How Artists Work  by Mason Currey

Faerie Knitting; 14 Tales of Love and Magic  by Alice Hoffman

Knitter’s Dictionary; Knitting Know-How from A to Z   by Kate Atherley

Wild Mittens Unruly Socks; 22 Outrageously Unique Knitting Patterns  by Lumi Karmitsa

Head into Winter with these beautiful new arts books!

After a slow start, our new books have been coming in regularly recently.  Check out these great new titles:

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

Abstract Climates: Helen Frankenthaler in Provincetown, exhibit catalog of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum

Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now  by Maggie Taft

Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly  by Joshua Rivkin

Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory  by Griselda Pollock

Chinese Symbolism & Art Motifs, 4^th ed.  by C. A. S. Williams

Delacroix, exhibit catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Ar

50 Women Artists You Should Know  by Christiane Wiedemann

Monet and Architecture  by Richard Thomson

Navajo Pictorial Weaving, 1860--1950  by Tyrone D. Campbell

Ruth Asawa

The Sistine Chapel: Paradise in Rome  by Ulrich Pfisterer

Women Artists of the American West  ed. by Susan R. Ressler

Architecture / Landscape Design / Urban Planning  

Architectural Guide – Helsinki & Espoo  by Ulf Meyer

Mid-Twentieth Century Architecture in Alaska, a National Park Service publication

Palace of State: The Eisenhower Executive Office Building, a U. S. Commission of Fine Arts publication

Villages of West Africa  by Steven & Cathi House

Graphics / Drawing

 #SAD! Doonesbury in the Time of Trump

Everyone Can Draw  by Barrington Barber

We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust  by Neal Adams

Fashion / Interior Decoration / Design

50 Designers You Should Know

Georg Jensen; Scandinavian Design for Living, exhibit catalog of the Art Institute of Chicago

Love Color; Choosing Colors to Live With  by Anna Starmer

 

Photography

Ansel Adams in Yosemite Valley; Celebrating the Park at 150

Main Street: The Lost Dream of Route 66, photos by Edward Keating

The Photographer’s Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos  by Michael Freeman

Postcards from the Road: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”  by Jonathan Day

Wolfgang Tillmans 2017

Crafts / Applied Arts /How-to

All for Fall: Whimsical Wool Projects and Warm Quilts  by Bonnie Sullivan

Amy Herzog’s Ultimate Sweater Book

Beginner’s Guide to Sculpting Characters in Clay

Embroidered Treasures: Birds; Exquisite Needlework of the Embroiderers’ Guild Collection  by Annette Collinge

Encyclopedia of Pottery Techniques  by Peter Cosentino

Extraordinary Origami: 20 Projects from Contemporary North American Masters

Antiques / Collectibles

Kovels’ Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide 2019

New arts books for Fall!

Like the weather, we've skipped from summer to late fall!  October is the start of our fiscal year here at SLPL, so new books have begun to come in.  Take a look, and enjoy!

Reference

The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, 2018-2019

Standard Catalog of World Coins, 2001–Date, 2018 ed.

Versailles; A Private Invitation  by Guillaume Picon

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

Anni Albers, exhibit catalog of the Tate Modern

Art of the West: Selected Works from the Autry Museum

Artists and Their Books/Books and Their Artists  by Marcia Reed

Ed Ruscha: Course of Empire

50 Art Movements You Should Know  by Rosalind Ormiston

Helen Frankenthaler; 1959 -- 1962

How Do We Look  by Mary Beard

Käthe Kollwitz in Dresden, catalog of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

The Museum of Lost Art  by Noah Charney

A Mouth is Always Muzzled; Six Dissidents, Five Continents, and the Art of Resistance  by Natalie Hopkinson

Ninth Street Women; Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art  by Mary Gabriel

Picasso Ceramics

Architecture / Landscape Design / Urban Planning

Architectural Guide: Tokyo  by Ulf Meyer

Healthy Environments, Healing Spaces

Mexico City Architecture Guide

Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona 1929

100 Buildings, 1900 – 2000

Zed Life: How to Build a Low-Carbon Society Today  by Bill Dunster

Graphics / Drawing

Graphic Style: From Victorian to Hipster, 4^th ed.  by Stephen Heller

It Must Be Art! Big O Poster Artists of the 60s and 70s

Fashion / Interior Decoration / Design

Decorations for Walls & Panels: Early 20^th Century Design & Pattern

A Matter of Style: Intimate Portraits of 10 Women Who Changed Fashion

The Fashion Show: History, Theory, and Practice by Gill Stark

Photography

Mediations  by Susan Meiselas

Motion Picture & Video Lighting for Cinematographers  3^rd ed.  by Blain Brown

Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography  by Phillip Prodger

Crafts / Applied Arts /How-to

Beautiful Beaded Jewelry for Beginners  by Cheryl Owen

Calligraphy Styling; Learn the Art of Beautiful Writing  by Veronica Halim

Color Me Floral; Stunning Monochromatic Arrangements for Every Season  by Kiana Underwood

Designing and Making Rings and Bangles  by Miranda Falkner

Learn to Tapestry Crochet  by Maria Isabel

Modern Tapestry Crochet  by Alessandra Hayden     

Monoprinting  by Jackie Newell

Smøyg: Pattern Darning from Norway  by Yvette Stanton

Antiques / Collectibles

Guide Book of United States Paper Money, 5^th ed.

Hot off the presses -- new arts and crafts books, August 2018

Don't miss these fine books! 

Reference

The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel

Frontier Women and Their Art; A Chronological Encyclopedia

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

The Book as Art: Artists’ Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts

Dubuffet and the City  by Sophie Berrebi

Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas, exhibit catalog of the Seattle Art Museum

Giacometti, exhibit catalog of the Guggenheim Museum

James Rosenquist: Painting as Immersion, exhibit catalog of the Museum Ludwig

John Singer Sargent & Chicago’s Gilded Age, exhibit catalog of the Art Institute of Chicago

Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, exhibit catalog of the Baltimore Museum of Art

Rachel Whiteread, exhibit catalog of Tate Britain

Tiffany’s Glass Mosaics, exhibit catalog from the Corning Museum of Glass

Universal Principles of Art; 100 Key Concepts for Understanding, Analyzing, and Practicing Art  by John A. Parks

Architecture / Landscape Design / Urban Planning

Arquitectonica  by Alastair Gordon

David Chipperfield Architects, Vol. II (updated ed.)

Key Modern Architects; 50 Short Histories of Modern Architecture  by Andrew Higgott

Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South  [Buildings of England]

Your Architecture Career  by Gary Unger

Graphics / Drawing

Brush Pen Illustration  by Sho Ito

Dracopedia Legends: An Artist’s Guide to Drawing Dragons of Folklore

Image Factories. Infographics 1920—1945

Fashion / Interior Decoration / Design

Women Design: Pioneers in Architecture, Industrial, Graphic and Digital Design  by Libby Sellers

Photography

The Black Trilogy; Ralph Gibson, text by Gilles Mora

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to

Arne & Carlos Favorite Designs: Greatest Hits & New Inspirations

Knitted Cats & Dogs  by Sue Stratford

Corner-to-Corner Lap Throws for the Family  by Sarah Zimmerman  

Knitted Bears All Dressed Up!  By Val Pierce

Painting Water in Watercolour  by Terry Harrison

The Royal School of Needlework Book of Embroidery

Tiny Christmas Toys to Knit  by Sachiyo Ishii

Antiques / Collectibles

Guide Book of Flying Eagle and Indian Head Cents, 3^rd ed.  by Richard Snow

In Celebration of Greek Coinage  by Robin J. Eaglen

Miller’s Collectibles Handbook & Price Guide 2019 – 2020