New art and music books for Leap Day, 2012

Yes, it's that once-every-four-years happy day.  Presidential elections and the Summer Olympics are always held on leap years.  Here are some interesting new additions to our collection to celebrate.

Art History / Design

Bookwork:  Medium to Object to Concept to Art  by Garrett Stewart

Florence and Baghdad:  Renaissance Art and Arab Science  by Hans Belting

German Expressionism:  The Graphic Impulse, exhibition catalog from the Museum of Modern Art

The House that Sam Built:  Sam Maloof and Art in the Pomona Valley, 1945-1985  by Harold Nelson

The Moderns:  The Arts in Ireland from the 1900s to the 1970s, exhibition catalog of the Irish Museum of Modern Art

Plains Indian Art:  The Pioneering Work of John C. Ewers

Warhol:  Headlines  by Molly Donovan

  

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Design

Alison & Peter Smithson;  A Critical Anthology  edited by Max Risselada

Edward Durell Stone:  A Son’s Untold Story of a Legendary Architect  by Hicks Stone

Tudoresque:  In Pursuit of the Ideal Home  by Andrew Ballantyne

 

Photography

Alfred Stieglitz:  A Legacy of Light  by Katherine Hoffman

 

Music

Christian Music; A Global History  by Tim Dowley

Evenings at the Opera:  An Exploration of the Basic Repertoire  by Jeffrey Langford

Music of the 1980s  by Thomas Harrison

Rock and Roll Always Forgets;  A Quarter Century of Music Criticism  by Chuck Eddy

Segregating Sound:  Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow  by Karl H. Miller

Big batch of beautiful books

Yes, we've had a windfall of really nice new arts books this week.  Enjoy!

Art History / Design

Ai Weiwei’s Blog:  Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009

Art Deco Postcards  by Patricia Bayer

Art for Sale:  A Candid View of the Art Market  by Dirk Boll

Art of Two Germanys:  Cold War Cultures, exhibition catalog from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Arts & Crafts of the Native American Tribes  by Michael G. Johnson

Carl Gustave Waldeck  by Carl R. Waldeck

Contemporary African Fashion  edited by Suzanne Gott

The Drawings of The Electric Pencil

Expressive Modern:  The Interiors of Amy Lau

Gerhard Richter:  Panorama

Heroic Africans:  Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures  by Alisa LaGamma

Identify:  Basic Principles of Identity Design in the Iconic Trademarks of Chermayeff & Geismar

Krazy Kat;  The Art of George Herriman  by Craig Yoe

Leonora Carrington:  Surrealism, Alchemy and Art  by Susan L. Aberth

Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Queen:  Art & Image  by Paul Moorhouse

The Ronald S. Lauder Collection:  Selections  

Sol Lewitt, Structures, 1965-2006

Writing Art History:  Disciplinary Departures  by Margaret Iversen

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Architecture

Architect for Art:  Max Gordon

Bertrand Goldberg:  Architecture of Invention

European Gardens:  History, Philosophy and Design  by Tom Turner

Crafts & How-to

America’s Doll House:  The Miniature World of Faith Bradford  by William L. Bird, Jr.

Contemporary Drawing;  Key Concepts and Techniques

Hoopla:  The Art of Unexpected Embroidery  by Leanne Prain

How to Paint Living Portraits  by Roberta Carter Clark

Sketching People:  Faces and Figures  by Giovanni Civardi

Starting your Career as an Artist  by Angie Wojak

Photography

500 Cameras:  170 Years of Photographic Innovation  by Todd Gustavson

How to Do Everything:  Digital Photography  by Jason R. Rich

Man Ray / Lee Miller:  Partners in Surrealism  by Phillip Prodger

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Inside Pee-Wee’s Playhouse  by Caseen Gaines

New arts books for mid-February

Great new books continue to come in!  We are very lucky here in St. Louis that we still have a decent budget to buy books (and other materials) for our collections.  Many public libraries around the country are slashing budgets, closing locations, and reducing staff.  We don't believe it will come to that here.  So, if you would like to check out these or any other titles, just "place a hold" on them through our catalog, or call any of our branch service desks.  Enjoy!

Art History / Design

Art for the Nation:  The Eastlakes and the Victorian Art World  by Susanna Avery-Quash

Christ to Coke:  How Image Becomes Icon  by Martin Kemp

Diego Rivera:  Murals for the Museum of Modern Art  by Leah Dickerman

Fashion Design Directory  by Marnie Fogg

Graffiti and Street Art  by Anna Wacawek

Korean Buncheong Ceramics

New China New Art  by Richard Vine

Performance Art:  From Futurism to the Present, 3^rd ed.  by RoseLee Goldberg

Roberto Capucci; Art into Fashion  by Dilys Blum

Velazquez an the Surrender of Breda  by Anthony Bailey

Washington Crossing the Delaware; Restoring an American Masterpiece  by Carrie R. Barrett

Crafts

Introducing Pottery:  The Complete Guide  by Dan Rhode

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Architecture

Jean Prové:  La Maison Tropicale/The Tropical House, exhibition catalog of the Centre Pompidou

Saving Wright:  The Freeman House  by Jeffrey M. Chusid

Music

Amazing Grace  by Aaron Cohen

Buena Vista in the Club:  Rap, Reggaeton, and Revolution in Havana  by Geoffrey Baker

The Drum:  A History  by Matt Dean

Music Makes Me:  Fred Astaire and Jazz  by Todd Decker

Pop Music, Pop Culture  by Chris Rojek

Representing Black Music Culture; Then, Now, and When Again  by William C. Banfield

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Directory of World Cinema:  Spain

Flickers of Desire:  Movie Stars of the 1910s  by Jennifer M. Bean

Knockout:  The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema  by Leger Grindon

100 Cult Films  by Ernest Mathijs

Scorsese on Scorsese  edited by Michael Henry Wilson

Something’s Coming, Something Good:  West Side Story and the American Imagination  by Misha Berson

February's New Books

Here are our latest acquisitions in Arts subjects.  Just request them and check them out at any of our branches.

Art History / Design

Cats, Dogs, Men, Women, Ninnies & Clowns; The Lost Art of William Steig  by Jeanne Steig

Chinese Export Ceramics  by Rose Kerr

Defining Contemporary Art—25 Years in 200 Pivotal Artworks 

Discovering Leonardo  by Rebecca Tucker

Duncan Phyfe:  Master Cabinetmaker in New York  by Peter M. Kenny

European Sculpture, 1400-1900, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art  by Ian Wardropper

Infinite Jest:  Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine  by Constance McPhee

Leonardo da Vinci; Painter at the Court of Milan  by Luke Syson

Ocean Liner Posters  by Gabriele Cadringher

Open Studios with Lotta Jansdotter

Railway Posters  by Thierry Favre

Recycling & Redesigning Logos:  A Designer’s Guide   by Michael Hodgson

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Architecture

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Sacred Architecture;  Faith, Form, and Technology  by Anat Geva

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesen Illustrated by Vintage Postcards  by Randolph C. Henning

Matter in the Floating World; Conversations with Leading Japanese Architects and Designers  by Blaine Brownell

Shingle Style Architecture for the 21^st Century  by E. Ashley Rooney

Photography

Eyewitness:  Hungarian Photography in the Twentieth Century  by Peter Baki

Food Styling:  The Art of Preparing Food for the Camera  by Delores Custer

Music

Best Music Writing 2011 edited by Alex Ross

The Folk Music Revival, 1958-1970  by David Dicaire

Willie Dixon:  Preacher of the Blues  by Mitsutoshi Inaba

Antiques / Collectibles

The Joys of Collecting  by J. Paul Getty