Latest acquisitions to send off June and welcome July!

Hope you can drop by the library this July to see and check out these and other great books that we have acquired for your amusement and enjoyment.

Reference

Architectural Graphic Standards, 12^th edition, 2016

Fashion Designers A – Z; The Collection of the Museum at FIT

Frederic Remington; A Catalogue Raisonné II  by Peter Hassrick

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

Persian Painting: The Arts of the Book and Portraiture  by A. T. Adamova

Rome 1600; The City and the Visual Arts under Clement VIII  by Clare Robertson

Architecture / Landscape Design / Urban Planning

Antoni Gaudí: Ornament, Fire and Ashes  by Juan José Lahuerta

Architecture’s Odd Couple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson  by Hugh Howard

Cornwall [The Buildings of England]  by Peter Beacham/Nicholas Pevsner

London in Fifty Design Icons  by Deyan Sudjic

Suffolk: East [The Buildings of England]  by James Bettley/Nicholas Pevsner

Twenty Over Eighty: Conversations on a Lifetime in Architecture and Design

Design / Fashion / Interior Decoration / Graphics

American Studio Ceramics: Innovation and Identity, 1940 to 1979  by Martha Drexler Lynn

Tiles & Styles: Jugendstil & Secession: Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts Design in German and Central European Decorative Tiles  by Ken Forster

Nineteenth-Century Woman’s Fashion  by Felicity J. Warnes

New books for mid-June

More great books!  Come see 'em!

Reference

John Singer Sargent; Complete Paintings, Vol. VII: Figures and Landscapes, 1900-1907  by Richard Ormond

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

The Art of the Mural; Contemporary International Urban Art  by Shane Pomajambo

The Art Rules; Wisdom and Guidance from Art World Experts  by Paul Klein

Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting  by Jesse Locker

Histories of Ornament: From Global to Local

Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, exhibit catalog of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Little Dreams in Glass and Metal; Enameling in America 1920 to the Present  by Bernard Jazzar

Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective, exhibit catalog of the Museum of Modern Art

Maya Lin: Topologies

100 Works of Art that Will Define our Age  by Kelly Grovier

Picasso: The Great War, Experimentation, and Change, exhibit catalog of the Barnes Foundation

Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends  by Richard Ormond

Architecture / Landscape Design / Urban Planning

The Anatomy of the Architectural Book  by Andre Tavares

A Day at Chateau de Fontainebleau  Guillaume Picon

MOS: Selected Works  by Michael Meredith

One World Trade Center; Biography of the Building  by Judith Dupre

Paul Mendes da Rocha; Complete Works  by Daniele Pisani

Photography

Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series

 Cheap Tricks; Ingenious Lighting & Shooting Ideas for Studio Photography  by Christopher Grey

The Complete Guide to Bird Photography  by Jeffrey Rich

Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the 21^st Century

Design / Fashion / Interior Decoration / Graphics

Art Deco Fashion  by Suzanne Lussier

Fashion Game Changers; Reinventing the 20^th Century Silhouette

Gahan Wilson’s Out There

The Gentleman’s Farm: Elegant Country House Living  by Laurie Ossman

VeryGraphic: Polish Designers of the 20^th Century

Vladimir Kagan; A Lifetime of Avant-Garde Design

Fantasy maps, fantasy art!

The fabulous new exhibit featuring Fantasy Maps opens Saturday, June 11.  Come see the huge, fun map of St. Louis that takes up most of the Great Hall floor, and lots of wonderful exhibits in the Carnegie Room.  In the Fine Arts Room, we are displaying some of our many books on fantasy art.

New books for early June

Start your summer out by checking into these beautiful books!

Reference

Blouin Art Sales Index, 2016

Handbook of United States Coins, 2017

Manolo Valdés: The New York Botanical Garden

Standard Catalog of World Paper Money; Modern Issues 1961-Present, 22^nd ed.

Who’s Who in American Art, 36^th ed., 2016

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

Art + Religion in the 21^st Century  by Aaron Rosen

Hieronymus Bosch: Visions of Genius  by Matthijs Ilsink

John La Farge and the Recovery of the Sacred, exhibit catalog of the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College

The Sketchbooks Revealed  by Richard Diebenkorn

Treasury of Byzantine Ornament; 255 Motifs from St. Mark’s and Ravenna  by Arne Dehli

Architecture / Landscape Design / Urban Planning

Architecture of Life, exhibit catalog of U.C. Berkeley

House of Thurn und Taxis  by Princess Mariae Gloria Thurn und Taxis

Jefferson and Palladio: Constructing a New World, exhibit catalog of the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio

Made in Norway; New Norwegian Architecture

Nanotecture: Tiny Built Things by Rebecca Roke

Piranesi’s Lost Words  by Heather Hyde Minor

  

Design / Fashion / Interior Decoration / Graphics

Defining Dresses: A Century of Fashion  by Arthur Dreyfus

Denim: Fashion’s Frontier, exhibit catalog of the Fashion Institute of Technology

Fashion Design Techniques  by Zeshu Takamura

Fashion Underground:  The World of Susanne Bartsch  by Valerie Steele

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to

Cross Stitch for All Seasons  by Maria Diaz

Little Ribbon Patchwork and Appliqué

More Lovely Knitted Lace  by Brooke Nico

Antiques / Collectibles

English Silver before the Civil War; The David Little Collection  by Timothy Schroder