Welcome April with New Books on the Arts

More great new titles have come in to end the month of March on a high note.  If you would like to check any of these books out, just place a "hold" on them from your computer or contact any SLPL branch.

Art History / Design

Andy Warhol:  The Early Sixties, exhibition catalog from the Kunstmuseum Basel

Atomic Ranch:  Midcentury Interiors  by Michelle Gringeri-Brown

Constable and Salisbury:  The Soul of Landscape  by Timothy Wilcox

The Controversy of Renaissance Art  by Alexander Nagel

Design After Modernism:  Furniture and Interiors 1970-2010  by Judith Gura

Francois Berthold Studio:  The Art of Fashion Illustration

Labeling America:  Popular Culture on Cigar Box Labels  by John Grossman

Nam June Paik,  exhibition catalog from Tate Liverpool

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-To Books

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

Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement  by Suzi Parron

Masters:  Polymer Clay; Major Works by Leading Artists  by Rachel Carren

The Profitable Artist:  A Handbook for All Artists in the Performing, Literary, and Visual Arts

Quilts 1700-2010:  Hidden Histories, Untold Stories, exhibition catalog from the V & A

Textiles:  The Whole Story; Uses, Meanings, Significance  by Beverly Gordon

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Design

The Badia of Florence:  Art and Observance in a Renaissance Monastery  by Anne Leader

 

Bernard Maybeck:  Architect of Elegance  by Mark Anthony Wilson

The Ecological House:  Sustainable Architecture around the World  by Marco Moro

Louis Sullivan; Creating a New American Architecture  by Patrick F. Cannon

The Reichstag:  Foster + Partners  by  Norman Foster

Music

Long Lost Blues:  Popular Blues in America, 1850-1920  by Peter C. Muir

Making your Mark in Music; Stage Performance Secrets  by Anika Paris

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

The Astaires:  Fred & Adele  by Kathleen Riley

Cannes Cinema:  A Visual History of the World’s Greatest Film Festival  by Serge Toubiana

 

Cinema Italiano:  The Complete Guide from Classics to Cult  by Howard Hughes

Fifty Contemporary Film Directors (2^nd edition)  edited by Yvonne Tasker

100 Film Musicals;  BFI Screen Guides  by Jim Millier

The Philosophy of Spike Lee  edited by Mark T. Conard

Antiques / Collectibles

A Kind of Archeology; Collecting American Folk Art, 1876-1976  by Elizabeth Stillinger

 

Chinese Bronze Ware  by Li Song

Chinese Ceramics  by Fang Lili

Welcome Spring with beautiful new Art Books

After several weeks of no deliveries, we just received a big bunch of beautiful books.  Several are lovely books about jewelry, so we've given them a special section.   As always, if you would like to check any of these books out, just place a request on them and pick them up at any of our branches.

Art History / Design

Alex Steinweiss:  The Inventor of the Modern Album Cover  by Kevin Reagan

Graphic Design:  Now in Production, exhibition catalog from the Walker Art Center

Graphic Design Referenced:  A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications, and History of Graphic Design  by Bryony Gomez-Palacio

Stieglitz and his Artists:  Matisse to O’Keeffe; The Alfred Stieglitz Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Through African Eyes:  The European in African Art, 1500 to Present, exhibition catalog of the Detroit Institute of Arts

Special Feature:  Jewelry

Artful Adornments:  Jewelry from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Crown Jewels  by Anna Keay

Jewelry by Artists:  In the Studio, 1940-2000; Selections from the Daphne Farago Collection

Turkmen Jewelry:  Silver Ornaments from the Marshall & Marilyn R. Wolf Collection

21^st Century Jewelry:  The Best of the 500 Series  by Marthe Le Van

Vintage Jewelry Design:  Classics to Collect and Wear  by Caroline Cox

Architecture / Planning/ Landscape Design

Adirondack Style:  Great Camps and Rustic Lodges  by F-Stop Fitzgerald

The Invisible Element of Place:  The Architecture of David Salmela  by Thomas Fisher

The Life and Death of Buildings:  On Photography and Time  by Joel Smith

Railroad Stations:  The Buildings that Linked the Nation  by David Naylor

21^st Century London:  The New Architecture  by Kenneth Powell

The Looshaus  by Christopher Long
 

Photography

The Changing Face of Portrait Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital  by Shannon Thomas Perich

FP365:  A One-Year Photographic Diary of Forest Park  by Alex Paradowski

The Radical Camera:  New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951  by Mason Klein

What Photography Is  by James Elkins

Crafts and How-to Books

The Ceramics Bible:  The Complete Guide to Materials and Techniques  by Louisa Taylor

Classic Portrait Painting in Oils:  Keys to Mastering Diverse Skin Tones  by Chris Saper

Woodburning Project & Pattern Treasury  by Deborah Pompano

Music

Changing Lives:  Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music  by Tricia Tunstall

Group Harmony:  The Black Urban Roots of Rhythm & Blues  by Stuart L. Goosman

Music of the 1990s  by Thomas Harrison

The Resurrection of Johnny Cash  by Graeme Thomson
 

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

The Chinese Cinema Book  edited by Song Hwee Lim

I Want My MTV:  The Uncensored Story of the Music video Revolution  by Craig Marks

The Literary Monster on Film; Five 19^th Century British Novels & Their Cinematic Adaptations  by Abigail Burnham Bloom

Three Stooges FAQ  by David J. Hogan