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