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