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