November 19, 2010

More New Books!

At the start of our fiscal year, October 1, we were able to order many great new books, and they are coming in now. All you have to do is put a request on them through our catalog (found at www.slpl.org) and have them sent to the branch of your choice. Enjoy!



Art History, Design

Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention by Mason Klein

American Modern by Thomas O’Brien

At Home with 'Town & Country'

Dada in Paris by Michel Sanouillet

Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria by Henry John Drewal

In the Studios of Paris: William Bouguereau and his American Students by James F. Peck

Islamic Arts from Spain by Mariam Rosser-Owen

My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic by Charles Saatchi

Picasso Looks at Degas by Elizabeth Cowling

Quilts: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum by Elizabeth V. Warren

Young Michelangelo: The Path to the Sistine by John T. Spike



Architecture / Planning / Landscape

Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture by Alanna Stang

Leopold Eidlitz: Architecture and Idealism in the Gilded Age by Kathryn E. Holliday

Mr. Hamilton’s Elysium: The Gardens of Painshill by Michael Symes

Morris Lapidus: The Architecture of Joy by Deborah Desilets

New Architecture in Japan by Yuki Sumner

Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey by James Ackerman et al.

Tadao Ando, Venice: The Pinault Collection at the Palazzo Grassi and the Punta della Dogana by Philip Jodidio

Music

Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage by Kenneth Silverman

Starting Over: The Making of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Double Fantasy by Ken Sharp

We want Miles : Miles Davis ed. by Vincent Bessières, et al.

Why Mahler? How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed our World by Norman Lebrecht

A Wizard, A True Star: Todd Rundgren in the Studio by Paul Myers


Photography

Steichen in Color: Portraits, Fashion and Experiments