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

Download music -- it's free and legal!

Yes, using a service named Freegal (free + legal), St. Louis Public Library cardholders can download free music to their computer or mobile device for personal use.  Each week you can choose up to three songs from thousands of songs, over 100 genres of music, and more than 50 record labels. Sunday at midnight, your counter is set back to zero. Then you'll be able to download three more songs. 

Best of all, the songs never expire - no due dates.  Special software isn't needed to use the service, and there are no digital rights management restrictions.  Music is downloaded in an MP3 form that can be played, transferred or burned to a CD.

So, grab your valid St. Louis Public Library card and start Listening.  For more details, see our October newsletter: http://www.slpl.org/pdf/newsletters/cio201110.pdf

Last titles of our fiscal year

Ordering of new materials was halted on September 1, so new arrivals are becoming scarce.  However, a few have come in this month.  As always, they can be requested to be sent to any of our branches, where they can be checked out.  We will begin ordering again on October 1, so...Watch This Space.

Art History / Design / Craft

Art of the Middle East:  Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World and Iran  by Saeb Eigner

Folk Art from the American Museum in Britain  by Laura Beresford

How to Open & Operate a Financially Successful Interior Design Business  by Diane Leone

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Design

Accessible Architecture:  Construction and Design Manual

Music

Musorgsky:  His Life and Works  by David Brown

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Silent Visions:  Discovering Early Hollywood and New York Through the Films of Harold Lloyd  by John Bengtson

Antiques / Collectibles

The Book of Griswold & Wagner…revised and expanded 5^th edition with Price Guide  by David G. Smith and Chuck Wafford

New Books for Late Summer

We list these new books with heavy hearts, mourning the sudden loss of our colleague and friend Keith Zimmer.  If you would like to check out any of them, just put a Request on them and pick them up at any of our branches.

Art History / Design / Craft

Altered and Adorned:  Using Renaissance Prints in Daily Life  by Suzanne K. Schmidt

The Andy Goldsworthy Project (National Gallery of Art, Washington)  by Molly Donovan

Artists’ Magazines:  An Alternative Space for Art  by Gwen Allen

Contemporary Art in Asia: A Critical Reader 

Gabriel Metsu  by Adriaan E. Waiboer

Graphic Style:  From Victorian to New Century  by Steven Heller and Seymour Chwast

Lee Krasner:  A Biography  by Gail Levin

The Modern Eye:  Stieglitz, MoMA, and the Art of the Exhibition, 1925-1934  by Kristina Wilson

Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus,  exhibition catalog from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Secret History of the First U. S. Mint:  How Frank H. St3ewart Destroyed and then Saved a National Treasure  by Joel J. Orosz

Seductive Subversion:  Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968

The Steins Collect:  Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, exhibition catalog from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Walls that Speak:  The Murals of John Thomas Biggers  by Olive Jensen Thiesen

Wisdom Embodied:  Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Design

Rietveld’s Universe,  exhibition catalog from the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Photography

Annie Leibovitz at Work  by Annie Leibovitz

Photography Degree Zero:  Reflections on Roland Barthes’s “Camera Lucida”

Music

Arnold Schoenberg  by Bojan Bujic

The Ballad of Bob Dylan  by Daniel Mark Epstein

Women of Influence in Contemporary Music:  Nine American Composers  edited by Michael K. Slayton

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

The Last Silent Picture Show:  Silent Films on American Screens in the 1930s  by William M. Drew

Soul Searching:  Black-Themed Cinema from the March on Washington to the Rise of Blaxploitation  by Christopher Sieving

More great books for a hot summer

Art History / Design / Craft

Art and Nature:  Three centuries of Natural History Art from Around the World  by Judith Magee

Contemporary Chinese Art:  Primary Documents  (anthology from the Museum of Modern Art)

How to Read Greek Vases  (guide from the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Picasso by Picasso:  His First Museum Exhibition, 1932  by Tobia Bezzola

Set in Style:  The Jewelry of Van Cliff & Arpels, exhibition catalog from the Cooper-Hewitt museum

Thomas Kinkade:  The Artist in the Mall  edited by Alexis L. Boylan

The Woodcut Artist’s Handbook:  Techniques and Tools for Relief Printmaking, Second Edition  by George A Walker.

Women Building History:  Public Art at the 1893 Columbian Exposition  by Wanda M. Corn

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Design

Allied Works  Architecture  by Brad Cloepfil

Building-in-Time:  From Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion  by Marvin Trachtenberg

Gertrude Jekyll and the Country House Garden  by Judith B. Tankard

Giuseppe Vasi’s Rome:  Lasting Impressions from the Age of the Grand Tour  by James T. Tice

Global Citizen:  The Architecture of Moshe Safdie  by Donald Albrecht

Lost Victorian Britain:  How the Twentieth Century Destroyed the Nineteenth Century’s Architectural Masterpieces  by Gavin Stamp

Rafael Moneo:  Remarks on 21 Works

SANAA Sejima Nishizawa:  New Museum, New York  (Museum Building series)

Photography

Glass House  by James Welling

Music

La Bohème  (Overture Opera Guides)

Danny Elfman’s Batman:  A Film Score Guide  by Janet K. Halfyard

Don Giovanni (Overture Opera Guides)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s The Adventures of Robin Hood:  A  Film Score Guide  by Ben Winters

Glorious Days and Nights:  A Jazz Memoir  photos by Herb Snitzer

The Hollywood Film Music Reader  edited by Mervyn Cooke

Idomeneo (Overture Opera Guides)

Nino Rota:  Music, Film and Feeling  by Richard Dyer

Origins and Development of Musical Instruments  by Jeremy Montagu

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Boris Karloff:  More than a Monster.  The Authorised Biography  by Stephen Jacobs

The Dance Claimed Me:  A Biography of Pearl Primus  by Peggy & Murray Schwartz

Glamour in a Golden Age:  Movie Stars of the 1930s  edited by Adrienne L. McLean

Houdini:  Art and Magic  by Brooke Kamin Rapaport

Indie:  An American Film Culture  by Michael Z. Newman

Infamous Players:  A Tale of Movies, The Mob (and Sex)  by Peter Bart

Jane Campion:  Authorship and Personal Cinema  by Alistair Fox

Siren City:  Sound and Source Music in Classic American Noir  by Robert Miklitsch

Weimar Cinema, 1919 – 1933:  Daydreams and Nightmares  (Museum of Modern Art exhibition catalog)

Theatre  by David Mamet

Hot new books for a summer holiday

These books have been recently added to the Fine Arts collection; all may be checked out by placing a "Hold" on them and having them sent to a branch.  OK, they're not the usual light summer novel for the beach, but they are worthwhile in their own way. There are more performing arts than visual arts titles this time.  Enjoy! 

Art History / Design / Craft

1000 Indie Posters  by John Foster

Creating Their Own Image:  The History of African-American Women Artist  by Lisa E. Farrington

Jewelry of Southeast Asia  by Anne Richter

Joan Mitchell:  Lady Painter  by Patricia Albers

The Royal Portrait:  Image and Impact  by Jennifer Scott

Sacred Modern:  Faith, Activism, and Aesthetics in the Menil Collection  by Pamela G. Smart

The World of Khubilai Khan:  Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty  by James C. Y. Watt

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Design

Mies van der Rohe Award 2005; European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture

Strawberry Fields:  Central Park’s Memorial to John Lennon  by Sara Cedar Miller

What is Architectural Theory?  by Andrew Leach

Music

33 Revolutions Per Minute:  A History of Protest Songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day  by Dorian Lynskey

Hi-De-Ho:  The Life of Cab Calloway  by Alyn Shipton

James Levine:  40 Years at the Metropolitan Opera

Patti Smith’s "Horses" and the remaking of Rock ‘n’ Roll  by Mark Paytress

Tosca by Giacomo Puccini (Overture Opera Guide)

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

African American Actresses:  The Struggle for Visibility, 1900-1960  by Charlene Regester

An Army of Phantoms:  American Movies and the Making of the Cold War  by  J. Hoberman

Conversations with Scorsese  by Richard Schickel

The Golden Age of Amerian Musical Theatre:  1943-1965  by Corinne J. Naden

I Was a Dancer  by Jacques D’Amboise

Lab Coats in Hollywood:  Science, Scientists, and Cinema  by David A. Kirby

Mislos Fozsa’s "Ben-Hur":  A Film Score Guide  by Roger Hickman

Nino Rota’s "The Godfather Trilogy":  A Film Score Guide  by Franco Sciannameo

Stephen King on the Small Screen  by Mark Browning

World Directors In Dialogue  by Bert Cardullo

Latest Arrivals - June 3, 2011

All of these books can be checked out by requesting that they be sent to one of our branches.  See the first posting about this, in November 2010, for details.

Art History / Design / Craft

The Art of British Rock  by Mike Evans

The Artist’s Guide to Grant Writing  by Gigi Rosenberg

Asian Art Now  by Melissa Chiu

Basic Identity (commercial graphic design)

Chinese Ceramics from the Paleolithic Period through the Qing Dynasty  by Li Zhiyan et al.

The Dictionary of Fashion History  by Valerie Cumming et al.

Fashion Illustration, 1930 to 1970  by Marnie Fogg

Kiln Forming Glass  by Helga Watkins-Baker

Masterpieces of Italian Design

Pavement Chalk Artist:  The Three-Dimensional Drawings of Julian Beever 

Pop Art   by Martina Angelotti

Street Culture  by Ricoricio

Walls That Speak:  The Murals of John Thomas Biggers  by Olive Jensen Thiesen

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Design

Architecture’s Evil Empire?  The Triumph and Tragedy of Global Modernism  by Miles Glendinning

Stone in Traditional Architecture  by David Campbell

Traditional Japanese Architecture  by Mira Locher

Walls:  Elements of Garden and Landscape Architecture  by Gunter Mader

Wood in Traditional Architecture  by David Campbell

Music

Mountains Come out of the Sky:  The Illustrated History of Prog Rock  by Will Romano

Photography

Advanced Imaging   by Joseph Meehan

Dorothea Lange:  The Crucial Years, 1930-1946

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Alice Guy Blaché:  Cinema Pioneer  edited by Joan Simon.

From IBM to MGM:  Cinema at the Dawn of the Digital Age  by Andrew Utterson

Hammer Films:  The Unsung Heroes  by Wayne Kinsey

Antiques / Collectibles

Guide Book of Modern United States Proof Coin Sets  by David W. Lange

Newest Acquisitions, mid-May 2011

We've had a few technical difficulties during the installation of the library's brand new catalog and circulation system, but some new books have made it through!  All our circulating books can still be requested and sent to any of our branches.

Art History / Design / Craft

The Art of Maynard Dixon  by Donald J. Hagerty

Art and Activism:  Projects of John and Dominique de Menil

Chinati:  The Vision of Donald Judd  by Marianne Stockebrand

Collector without Walls:  Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best  by Sara Campbell

Frieda Kahlo:  Face to Face  by Judy Chicago with Frances Borzello

Gray Collection:  Seven Centuries of Art, exhibition catalog from the AIC

Italian Ironwork:  Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neo-Classical  by Guilio Ferrari

Montana:  Claude Montana, Fashion Radical  by Marielle Cro

Oxford Concise Dictionary of Art Terms  by Michael Clarke

Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting:  Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland

Venice:  Canaletto and His Rivals  by Charles Beddington

War Posters:  Weapons of Mass Communication  by James Aulich

William De Morgan:  Arts and Crafts Potter  by Rob Higgins

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Design

Architecture of the Sun:  Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970  by Thomas S. Hines

The Artful Garden:  Creative Inspiration for Landscape Design  by James Van Sweden

Cemeteries  by Keith Eggener

Frank Lloyd Wright’s S. C. Johnson Research Tower  by Mark Hertzberg and Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer

Manhattan Skyscrapers, 3^rd edition,  by Eric P. Nash

Sears Homes of Illinois  by Rosemary Thornton

Tadao Ando, 1995-2010  by Francesco Dal Co

Tipi:  Heritage of the Great Plains, exhibition catalog from the Brooklyn Museum

The Tropical Modern House  by Raul A. Barreneche

Music

Dangdut Stories:  A Social and Musical History of Indonesia’s Most Popular Music  by Andrew N. Weintraub

The Words and Music of Joni Mitchell  by James Bennighof

Photography

Ghosts of the Black Chamber:  Experimental, Dada, and Surrealist Photography, 1918-1948  by Candice Black

Image Makers Image Takers  by Anne-Celine Jaeger

Starburst:  Color Photography in America, 1970-1980  by Kevin Moore

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Horror Noir:  Where Cinema’s Dark Sisters Meet  by Paul Meehan

Latest Arrivals, April 2011

Just a reminder:  even though we are closed, we are still ordering and receiving new books.  You can check these books out by placing a request on them and having them sent to any SLPL branch.  For details, see the first posts about this, written in November, 2010.   Enjoy!

Art History / Design / Craft

Bookplates and Badges of C. F. A. Voysey  by Karen Livingstone

Graphic: Inside the Sketchbooks of the World’s Great Graphic Designers  by Steven Heller

A History of American Tonalism, 1880-1920  by David A Cleveland

The Jewelry Architect: Techniques + Projects for Mixed-Media Jewelry  by Kate McKinnon

Makers: A History of American Studio Craft  by Janet Koplos

Monet and his Muse: Camille Monet in the Artist’s Life  by Mary Mathews Gedo

Representing Africa in American Art Museums: A Century of Collecting and Display  ed. by Kathleen Bickford Berzock and Christa Clarke

Stepping-Stones: A Journey Through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne  by Christine Desdemaines-Hugon.


Architecture / Planning / Landscape

Masterworks: Architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts  by Neil Bingham

The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture  by Pier Vittorio Aureli

Sustainism is the New Modernism  by Michiel Schwarz


Music

Blue Smoke: The Recorded Journey of Big Bill Broonzy  by Roger House

Heat Wave: The Life and Career of Ethel Waters  by Donald Bogle

Soul of the Man: Bobby “Blue” Bland  by Charles Farley

Tipbook Music on Paper: Basic Theory  by Hugo Pinksterboer


Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley  by Jeffrey Spivak

Designs on Film: A Century of Hollywood Art Direction  by Cathy Whitlock

Jaws (British Film Institute Modern Classics)  by Antonia Quirke

Stage Fighting: A Practical Guide  by Jonathan Howell

Stage Management: The Essential Handbook  by Gail Pallin


Antiques / Collectibles

Empire Without End: Antiquities Collections in Renaissance Rome, 1350-1527  by Kathleen Wren Christian

Miller’s Costume Jewelry  by Judith Miller

View Central reconstruction online

There is now a section of the SLPL website where both historic and current photographs and plans of the Central building can be viewed. It also includes information on the history of the library as an institution, and information on Central's architect, Cass Gilbert.

You can choose the "Central Renewal" panel from the library's homepage (www.slpl.org), or you can go directly to it at http://central.slpl.org/

Recent Arrivals in time for the Ides of March

More great titles have arrived. They are available to be checked out through our branches. See earlier posts for details.


Art History / Design / Craft

Abitare: 50 Years of Design

Alexander McQueen: Genius of a Generation by Kristin Knox

American Paintings and Works on Paper in The Barnes Foundation

Andy Warhol Enterprises, exhibition catalog from the Indianapolis Museum of Art

Artistic Circles: Design & Decoration in the Aesthetic movement by Charlotte Gere

August Rodin by Jane Mayo Roos

Donald Judd by David Raskin

The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City by Nancy Zeng Berliner

Henry Moore, exhibition catalog from Tate Britain

Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage, exhibition catalog from The Menil Collection

Modern Masters: American Abstraction at Midcentury from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, exhibition catalog

Movement and Balance: Sophie Taeuber-Arp 1889-1943, exhibition catalog from the Arp Museum

Packaging Design: A Cultural Sign by Edwin Visser

Salvador Dali: The Late Work, exhibition catalog from the High Museum of Art

Shiela Hicks: 50 Years by Joan Simon

Stitchopedia: The Only Embroidery Reference You’ll ever Need by Helen Winthorpe Kendrick

Titian: The Last Days by Mark Hudson

Wharton Esherick: The Journey of a Creative Mind by Mansfield Bascom


Architecture / Planning / Landscape

Auldbrass: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Southern Plantation by David G. De Long

Building Brasilia by Kenneth Frampton

Gerrit Reitveld by Ida von Zijl

Gio Ponti by Ugo La Pietra

Miami Beach Deco by Steven Brooke

1000 Architectural Details: A Selection of the World’s Most Interesting Building Elements by Alex Sanchez Vidiella

Shopping: Architecture Now! by Philip Jodidio

Visual Planning and the Picturesque by Nikolaus Pevsner


Music

For the Parlor and the Concert Stage: A Guide to Recent Collections of American Piano Music by Keith C. Ward

Living Opera by Joshua Jampol

The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can’t Do Without It by Philip Ball

Ray and Me by Marci Soto (Ray Charles)


Photography

Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan by Toby Jurovics

Stieglitz Steichen Strand: Masterworks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art


Antiques / Collectibles

Character & Novelty Clocks & Watches: Identifications and Values by Jim Collings

Encyclopedia of Barbie Doll & Family Licensed Products by Alva Christensen

English & Irish Delftware, 1570 – 1840 by Aileen Dawson

Newly Arrived Books in the Arts

More great books are arriving every week! Get them while they're hot off the presses! Remember you can request any of these online, using your card, and pick them up at any SLPL branch.


Art History / Design / Craft

Abstract Expressionism at the Museum of Modern Art by Ann Temkin

Emerging Fashion Designers by Sally Congdon-Martin

The Essential Durer edited by Larry Silver and Jeffrey Chipps Smith

G: An Avant-Garde Journal of Art, Architecture, Design, and Film 1923-1926 edited by Detlef Mertins and Michael W. Jennings

Gauguin: Maker of Myth edited by Belinda Thompson

The Great Migrator: Robert Rauschenberg and the Global Rise of American Art by Hiroko Ikegami

Henri Matisse: Rooms with a View by Shirley Neilsen Blum

100 Posters, 134 Squirrels…: The Posters of Jay Ryan

Sigmar Polke: Fenster-Windows Grossmunster Zurich

Stephen Jones & The Accent of Fashion

Will Eisner: A Dreamer’s Life in Comics by Michael Schumacher

The World’s Most Influential Fashion Designers by Noel Palomo-Lovinsky


Architecture / Planning / Landscape

Andrea Palladio and the Architecture of Battle, with the Unpublislhed Edition of Polybius’ Histories edited by Guido Beltramini

Jack Lenor Larsen’s LongHouse by Molly Chappellet

New Haiti Villages: Steven Holl Architects by Steven Holl

The Power of Pro Bono: 40 Stories about Design for the Public Good by Architects and Their Clients edited by John Cary

Seeking the Sacred in Contemporary Religious Architecture by Douglas R. Hoffman


Music

Beethoven and the Grosse Fuge: Music, Meaning, and Beethoven’s Most Difficult Work by Robert S. Kahn

Gone to the Country: The New Lost City Ramblers and the Folk Music Revival by Ray Allen

Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan’s Road from Minnesota to the World

In the City: A Celebration of London Music by Paul Du Noyer

Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America’s Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century by Barry Mazor


Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Cinema Today: A Conversation with Thirty-nine Filmmakers from around the World by Elena Oumano

HAIR: The Story of the Show that Defined a Generation by Eric Grode

Kubrick’s Hope: Discovering Optimism from 2001 to Eyes Wide Shut by Julian Rice


Photography

Walker Evans: Decade by Decade by James Crump


Antiques / Collectibles

100 Greatest U.S. Error Coins by Nicholas P. Brown