December 5, 2011

...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 4th edition  by Roseann Ettinger