New Books!

Even though we are closed to the public, we are still ordering books that we hope will be of interest to our patrons. Although they will be housed at our temporary storage location, they are available to be checked out -- just request them, then pick them up at any branch. Here is a list of some of the books we have acquired recently:



Art History, Design

Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures by Philip Mould.

Artistic Leather of the Arts & Crafts Era by Daniel Lees

Born Modern: The Life and Design of Alvin Lustig by Steven Heller

Chess Masterpieces: 1000 Years of Extraordinary Chess Sets by George Dean

Fifty Years of Painting by Ed Ruscha

Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement by Kevin Tucker

How to Read World History in Art by Flavio Febbraro

Large Scale: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s by Jonathan D. Lippincott.

Prendergast in Italy by Nancy Mowll Mathews

Renoir in the 20th Century (major exhibition catalogue)

Storytelling Time: Native North American Art from the Collections of the University of North Dakota

String Felt Thread: The Heirarchy of Art and Craft in American Art by Elissa Auther

Telling Stories: Philip Guston’s Later Works by David Kaufmann

Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color by Patricia Marshall




Architecture

Architecture on the Edge of Postmodernism: Collected Essays, 1964-1988 by Robert A. M. Stern.

Gyo Obata: Architect, Clients, Reflections by Marlene Ann Birkman and Gyo Obata

Hariri & Hariri Architecture: Buildings and Projects

Norman Foster: A Life in Architecture by Deyen Sudjic

Robert Adam: The Search for a Modern Classicism by Richard John

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

Thomas Jefferson’s Academical Village: The Creation of an Architectural Masterpiece, revised ed. by Richard Guy Wilson



Music

Amore: The Story of Italian American Song by Mark Rotella

Becoming Elektra: The True Story of Jac Holzman’s Visionary Record Label by Mick Houghton

Deutsche Grammophone: State of the Art, 1898 – Present; Celebrating over a Century of Musical Excellence

Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs from the Great Depression by Rich Remsberg

Listen to This by Alex Ross

Route 19 Revisited: The Clash and London Calling by Marcus Gray

The Saddest Music Ever Written: The Story of Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings by Thomas Larson.

Saxophone Colossus: A Portrait of Sonny Rollins by Bob Blumenthal, photos by John Abbott

Some Liked It Hot: Jazz Women in Film and Television, 1928 - 1959 by Kristin A McGee


Movies, Theater, Dance, TV

Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballet Russes, 1909-1929; Art, Music, Dance. (Exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum).

Hail, Hail Euphoria: Presenting the Marx brothers in Duck Soup, The Greatest War Movie Ever Made by Roy Blount, Jr.

Harry Potter Collector’s Handbook by William Silvester

Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide, 2nd Edition.

Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt by Robert Gottlieb


Photography

The Gersheim Collection / Harry Ransom Center by Roy Flukinger

Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs from the Great Depression by Rich Remsberg

Saxophone Colossus: A Portrait of Sonny Rollins by Bob Blumenthal, photos by John Abbott


Antiques & Collectibles

Harry Potter Collector’s Handbook by William Silvester

Valentines: A Collector’s Guide 1700s – 1950s by Barbara Johnson