Weatherbird artwork celebrates SLPL's Sesquicentennial!

 Dan Martin, the Post-Dispatch's current Weatherbird artist, has created a special illustration for the library's 150th year anniversary.  We will be celebrating the founding of the first St. Louis Public School Library all during 2015.  Happy New Year!

Steedman Architectural Library materials on exhibit, now through February

Steedman Library books and other materials are not usually on view to the public, but from December, 2014 through May, 2015, you can see them in the eight display cases in Central's Great Hall.  View one of the elephant folio Piranesis, the collection's oldest book (1521),  a recent artist's book that recreates Palladio's Villa Rotonda, and much more.  Keep up with other Steedman developments on its own blog:
http://steedmanarchitecturallibrary.blogspot.com/

Latest arrivals

New arts books are coming in regularly now. Remember that if you can't make it downtown to Central Library, you can request that these titles (well, not the Reference works) be sent to your home branch for pickup.

Reference

Artist’s & Graphic Designer’s Market, 2015

Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601 – 1700, 6^th edition

Who’s Who in American Art, 35^th ed., 2015

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

Art in America, 1945-1970; Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art,    and Minimalism  edited by Jed Perl

The World is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cezanne, exhibit catalog of the Art Gallery of Hamilton

Architecture / Landscape Design

The English Country House Garden  by George Plumptre

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: Daring by Design  by Anne Hawley

Louis Kahn; House of the Nation

Saarinen Houses  by Jari Jetsonen

Design / Fashion / Interior Decoration / Graphics

Car Posters  by Emmanuel Lopez

Creating a Successful Fashion Collection  by Steven Faerm

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Rooms; Interiors and Decorative Arts  by Margo Stipe

Steampunk Graphics; the Art of Victorian Futurism  by Antoni Cadafalch

Photography

David Hume Kennerly On the iPhone: Secrets and Tips from a Pulitzer Prize winning  Photographer

Digital SLR Cameras & Photography for Dummies  by David D. Busch

Photographic Composition  by Albrecht Rissler

Scanning and Editing your Old Photos  by Heather Morris

She Who Tells A Story; Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World  by Kristin Gresh

 

After-Thanksgiving: Arts books to enjoy

More new books have arrived. Take a break from holiday preparations, sit back, and appreciate these beautiful and informative additions to our collection:

Reference

John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1908-1913

Who’s Who in Fashion, 6^th edition

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

Breakfast at Sotheby’s  by Philip Hook

Conversations; Up Close and Personal with Icons of Fashion, Interior Design, and Art  by Blue Carreon

Lost Art: Missing Artworks of the Twentieth Century  by Jennifer Mundy

Pop Art; 50 Works of Art You Should Know  by Gary Van Wyk

Rendez-vous with Art  by Philippe de Montebello

The Sunflowers are Mine; The Story of Van Gogh’s Masterpiece  by Martin Bailey

 Design / Fashion / Interior Decoration / Graphics

Art Nouveau Fashion  by Clare Rose

Fashion Print Design: From Idea to Final Print  by Angel Fernandez

How to Create a Portfolio & Get Hired  by Fig Taylor

Practical Guide to Sustainable Fashion  by Alison Gwilt

Vintage Industrial: Living with Machine Age Design  by Misha de Potestad

Vogue & The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute  by Hamish Bowles

What They Didn’t Teach You in Design School  by Phil Cleaver

Why it Does Not Have to Fit: Modern Fashion Explained  by Marnie Fogg

Photography

David Busch’s Nikon D4/D4s

George Hurrell’s Hollywood  by Mark A. Viera

PetCam: The World Through the Lens of our Four-Legged Friends  by Chris Keeney

Wonderful new books coming in

At last our new orders for the  fiscal year that started last month are coming in.  This list is heavy on architecture and photography, but has some holiday craft books and other gems to enjoy.

Reference

Kovels’ Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide 2015

Holiday Crafts

Christmas Crochet for Hearth, Home & Tree  by Edie Eckman

Christmas Quilling  by Elizabeth Moad

Felt-o-Ween; 40 scary-cute projects to celebrate Halloween

Holiday Character Coaster Sets  by Darlene Neubauer

Natural Christmas Crafts  by Ilona Butterer

Art History / Art Theory

Gilbert & George: A Family Collection, exhibit catalog of the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco

Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, exhibit catalog of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Savage Samurai; Warrior Prints 1800-1899

Architecture / Landscape Design

 Afritecture:  Building Social Change catalog of the Architekturmuseum der TÜ München

Americans in Paris: Foundations of America’s Architectural Gilded Age  by Jean Paul Carlhian

Building as Ornament by Michiel van Raaij

Contemporary Mexican Architecture  by Sandy Baum

Gardens in Detail; 100 Contemporary Designs  by Emma Reuss

Houses for all Regions: CRAN Residential Collection

Richard Rogers: Inside Out, exhibit catalog of the Royal Academy of Arts

Who Built That?  Skyscrapers: An Introduction to Skyscrapers and Their Architects  by Didier Cornille

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to

Tattoo a Banana and Other Ways to turn Anything and Everything into Art  by Phil Hansen

Photography

Candida Höfer: Spaces of Their Own

Complete Digital Photography, 8^th edition  by Ben Long

Pet Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots  by Alan Hess
Photographer's Master Guide to Color  by Jeff Wignall

Photography: The Definitive Visual History  by Tom Ang

Post-Photography: The Artist with a Camera  by Robert Shore

Secrets of Backyard Bird Photography  by J. Chris Hansen

Wynn Bullock: Revelations

Antiques / Collectibles

Jewish Antiques: From Menorahs to Seltzer Bottles  by Tsadik Kaplan