January 26, 2015

Recent arrivals

Many beautiful and useful new titles -- this month has been especially strong in books on drawing and sketching: 

Drawing  &  Sketching

The Compendium of Fantasy Art Techniques  by Rob Alexander
The Complete Guide to Drawing Manga  by Marc Powell
Drawing Secrets Revealed: Basics; How to Draw Anything  by Sarah Parks
The Fundamentals of Drawing  by Jim Dowdalls
How to Draw Monsters  by Chad Scheres
Sketch! The Non-artist’s Guide to Inspiration, Technique and Drawinf Daily Life  by France Belleville-Van Stone
Sketching from the Imagination: Fantasy
  
Art History / Art Theory / Art World
Dear Nemesis: Nicole Eisenman 1993-2013, exhibit catalog of the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis
Gerhard Richter: Books
Goya; Order & Disorder, exhibit catalog of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Henry Taylor, exhibit catalog of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Jeff Koons; Conversations with Norman Rosenthal
Nineteenth-Century Art; A Beginner’s Guide  by Laurie Schneider Adams
Pattern and Light: Aga Khan Museum
Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance  edited by Am Helene Hirschke

Architecture / Landscape Design
Hadid: Zaha Hadid Complete Works
Library Architecture + Design  by Manuela Roth
Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier, Architect of Tomorrow  by Anthony Flint

Design / Fashion / Interior Decoration / Graphics
Dorothy and Otis: Designing the American Dream  by Norman Hathaway
The Mind’s Eye; The Art of Omni
Peanuts Every Sunday, 1956-1960
Superman; the Silver Age Dailies, 1961-1963  by Jerry Siegel