Another batch of great arts books has arrived

Here are some beautiful and informative new books for you, going into the Memorial Day Holiday, and then into Summer.  Just place a request for them and pick them up at your favorite branch.

Art History / Design 

Africa Interweave:  Textile Diasporas  by Susan Cooksey

Charles R. Knight:  The Artist who saw through Time  by Richard Milner

Chinese Furniture  by Zhang Xiaoming

The Dream of a King:  Dresden’s Green Vault, exhibition catalog of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Exotic Taste:  Orientalist Interiors  by Emmanuelle Gaillard

5,000 Years of Chinese Jade, exhibition catalog of the San Antonio Museum of Art

Happenings:  New York 1958-1963  by Mildred Glimcher

Japanese Prints:  Ukiyo-e in Edo, 1700-1900  by Ellis Tinios

Margot Van Voorhies: the Art of Mexican Enamelwork  by Penny C. Morrill

Nancy Holt: Sightlines  by Alena J. Williams

Portraits of the Presidents; The National Portrait Gallery, revised ed. by Frederick Voss

Rossetti: Painter & Poet  by J. B. Bullen

Saul Bass; A Life in Film and Design  by Jennifer Bass

Total Office Design:  50 Contemporary Workplaces

 

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Design

Architecture Now!, 8^th ed.  by Philip Jodidio

Bernini:  His Life and His Rome  by Franco Mormando

Chinese Architecture  by Cai Yanxin

Envisioning the Garden:  Line, Scale, Distance, Form, Color, and Meaning  by Robert Mallet

Nemours:  A Portrait of Alfred I. duPont’s House  by Dwight Young

2011 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture; Mies van der Rohe Award

Where We Work:  Creative Office Spaces  by Ian McCallam

Photography

Digital Photography for Dummies  by Julie Adair King

The Projectionist  by Kendall Messick

 

Music

Music for Silenced Voices:  Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets  by Wendy Lesser

Latest arrivals!

More wonderful new books have arrived, for your reading and viewing pleasure.  To check them out, place a "hold" on them and pick them up at any SLPL branch.

Art History / Design

Alastair Morton and Edinburgh Weavers:  Visionary Textiles and Modern Art  by Lesley Jackson

American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning, and Their Circle, 1927-1942  by William C. Agee, et al.

Art Forgery: The History of a Modern Obsession  by Thierry Lenain

Dard Hunter:  The Graphic Works  by Lawrence Kreisman

The Eugene B. Adkins Collection:  Selected Works, exhibition catalog from the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art

Lest We Forget:  Masterpieces of Patriotic Jewelry and Military Decorations  by Judith Price

Passion for Primitives: Folk Décor for Interior Design  by Franklin Schmidt

Precarious Worlds: Contemporary Art from Germany, exhibition catalog from the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum

Rembrandt in America;  Collecting and Connoisseurship,  exhibition catalog from the Cleveland Museum of Art

Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum  by Nicholas Tromans

Sustainability in Interior Design  by Sian Moxon

 

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Design

Beth Sholom Synagogue:  Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Religious Architecture  by Joseph M. Siry

Fallout Shelter:  Designing for Civil Defense in the Cold War  by David Monteyne

The Future of Architecture Since 1889  by Jean-Louis Cohen

A Guide to Smithsonian Gardens  by Carole Ottesen

Princeton and the Gothic Revival, 1870-1930  by Johanna G. Seasonwein

 

Photography

Cindy Sherman,  exhibition catalog from the Museum of Modern Art

 

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-To Books

Advanced Pottery  by Linda Bloomfield

The Best of Knit Along with Debbie Macomber

 

Music

Coltrane on Coltrane:  The John Coltrane Interviews  edited by Chris DeVito

Fashion Designers at the Opera  by Helena Matheopoulos

Franz Waxman’s Rebecca; a Film Score Guide  by David Neumeyer

Hip Hop’s Inheritance:  From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip  Hop Feminist Movement  by Reiland Rabaka

History of Missouri Bands, 1800 to 2000  by C. Herbert Duncan

The Routledge Film Music Sourcebook

Source:  Music of the Avant-Garde, 1966-1973  edited by Larry Austin

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Ballets Russes;  The Art of Costume,  exhibition catalog from the National Gallery of Australia

Irving Berlin’s American Musical Theater  by Jeffrey Magee

The Cinema of Preston Sturges; a Critical Study  by Alessandro Pirolini

Hollywood’s Italian American Filmmakers  by Jonathan J. Cavallero

Post-9/11 Cinema:  Though a Lens Darkly  by John Markert

Stravinsky’s Ballets  by Charles M. Joseph

The Cinematic Footprint:  Lights, Camera, Natural Resources  by Nadia Bozak

 

Antiques / Collectibles

Miller’s Collectibles Handbook, 2012-2013  by Judith Miller

Landmarks Assn. Preservation Week Activities

Don't forget to check out all the fun and educational events that the Landmarks  Association of St. Louis is hosting this month.  One highlight is a bus trip to Louisiana, Missouri to view its historic homes and other architecture.  It's this coming Saturday, so sign up now!  Here is the link: http://www.landmarks-stl.org/events/

Central to Your World

...a.k.a.  C2YW, is a website that follows and celebrates the ongoing renovation and renewal of the historic Central Library building.  "Check it out" at:  www.c2yw.org

And by the way, the Grand Re-opening of Central is scheduled for Sunday, December 9, 2012, when everyone is invited to come and see the transformation and restoration!

May Day 2012 -- new arts books for you

Just request any of them at an SLPL branch, and we'll send them... 

Art History / Design

The Beautiful Walls:  Photographic Elevations of Street Art in Los Angeles, Berlin and Paris, by Larry Yust, photographer and Patrick A. Polk

A Bigger Message:  Conversations with David Hockney  by Martin Gayford

Diana Vreeland:  The Eye Has to Travel  by Lisa Vreeland

In Search of Julien Hudson:  Free Artist of Color in Pre-Civil War New Orleans, exhibition catalog from The Historic New Orleans Collection

The Pulse of Mixed Media:  Secrets and Passions of 100 Artists Revealed  by Seth Apter

Thirty-six Views of the Eiffel Tower:  A Turn-of-the-Century Tribute to the City of Light  by Henri Riviere

 

Architecture

The Architecture of Alfred Browning Parker; Miami’s Maverick Modernist  by Randolph C. Henning

Carrère & Hastings:  The Masterworks

Free University of Berlin: Foster + Partners

The Heights:  Anatomy of a Skyscraper  by Kate Ascher

Luis Barragan:  His House

Rogers Marvel Architects

 

Music

 Look, I Made a Hat; Collected Lyrics (1981-2011)  by Stephen Sondheim

Love goes to Buildings on Fire; Five Years in New York that Changed Music Forever  by Will Hermes

 

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Apocalypse on the Set:  Nine Disastrous Film Productions  by Ben Taylor

The Martial Arts Cinema of the Chinese Diaspora:  Ang Lee, John Woo, and Jackie Chan in Hollywood  by Kin-Yan Szeto

Mike Leigh  by Sean O’Sullivan

21^st Century Hollywood:  Movies in the Era of Transformation  by Wheeler W. Dixon