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/