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