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