Spring/Easter/Passover crafts book display

In celebration of Easter Week, Passover, and Spring in general, the display cart in the Fine Arts Room is stocked with books on crafts and activities related to those subjects this week.  Drop in and browse if you can!

Latest art books -- read all about it!

This batch is heavy on art history books about individual artists.  They can be picked up or placed on request, as always.

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Art at the Art Institute of Chicago

Ai Weiwei  by Christina Carrillo de Albornoz

Albert Bloch: The American Blue Rider

Art Inc.: The Essential Guide for Building Your Career as an Artist  by Lisa Congdon

Egon Schiele: Portraits, exhibit catalog of the Neue Galerie, New York

Georg Baselitz: Back Then, In Between, and Today, exhibit catalog of Haus der Kunst, Munich

Marisol: Sculptures and Works on Paper  by Marina Pacini

Painted Glories: The Brancacci Chapel in Renaissance Florence  by Nicholas A Eckstein

Pollock and the Irascibles: The New York School, exhibit catalog of the Palazzo Reale, Milano

William Merritt Chase: A Life in Art  by Alicia G. Longwell

Architecture / Landscape Design

Piano: Renzo Piano Building Workshop; Complete Works 1966-2014

 

Photography

Charles M. Russell; Photographing the Legend  by Larry Len Peterson

The Mobile Photographer: An Unofficial Guide to Using Android Phones, Tablets, ad Apps in a Photography Workflow  by Robert Fischer

Design / Fashion / Interior Decoration / Graphics

The House of Worth: Portrait of an Archives  by Amy de la Haye

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to

How to Draw Dogs, Cats & Horses  by Arthur Zaidenberg

Help SLPL plan for the future!

YOU are invited and strongly encouraged to participate in a series of meetings/conversations to tell SLPL what you think of us and how we should proceed into the future.  All the details can be found at this link:

http://cio.slpl.org/2015/02/27/planning-today-for-the-library-of-tomorrow/

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Books about women artists on display for March

March is Women's History Month, so this month we honor all women artists, architects, photographers, and artisans by displaying some of our many books on the subject.  Come by the Fine Arts Room to browse our display cart, or just explore the online catalog for more titles.