September 10, 2016

Latest visual art book acquisitions

Even though our book ordering year has ended (it will resume again in October, never fear), the wonderful titles we ordered recently are still coming in. They run the gamut from serious art  and architecture history tomes to fun craft books and collectibles guides.

C'mon by and take a look, or request that they be sent to your home branch!  


Art History / Art Theory / Art World
Anselm Kiefer: The Woodcuts, exhibit catalog of The Albertina, Vienna
Art Cologne 1967-2016; The First Art Fair
The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art  by Sebastian Smee
The Artist and his Critic Stripped Bare; The Correspondence of Marcel Duchamp and Robert Level
Botticelli Reimagined, exhibit catalog of the Victoria & Albert Museum
The Brothers Le Nain; Painters of 17th Century France, exhibit of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Three Centuries of American Prints from the National Gallery of Art
Tinguely, exhibit catalog of the Museum Kunstpalast, et al.

Architecture / Landscape Design / Urban Planning
Architecture at the End of the Earth; Photographing the Russian North  by Wm. Craft Brumfield
Architecture in Wood: A World History  by Will Pryce
Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Peterborough [The Buildings of England]  by Charles O’Brien/Nikolaus Pevsner
Buildings of Savannah  by Robin B. Williams, et al.
Garden Design Solutions  by Stephen Woodhams
Living Roofs  by Ashley Penn

Design / Fashion / Interior Decoration / Graphics
Inside Rio  by Lenny Niemeyer
Light Meal Restaurant: Dine-in Cultural Space  ed. by Brenda Heath
Show Posters: The Art and Practice of Making Gig Posters  by Pat Jones

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to
Pyrography: 18 Step-by-Step Projects to Make  by Bob Neill
Tapestry Crochet and More  by Maria Gullberg
Tie Dip Dye  by Pepa Martin

Antiques / Collectibles
Homestead Glass Works: Bryce, Higbee & Co.  by Paul Kirk
Warman’s Depression Glass: Identification and Price Guide, 6th ed