Head into Winter with these beautiful new arts books!

After a slow start, our new books have been coming in regularly recently.  Check out these great new titles:

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

Abstract Climates: Helen Frankenthaler in Provincetown, exhibit catalog of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum

Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now  by Maggie Taft

Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly  by Joshua Rivkin

Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory  by Griselda Pollock

Chinese Symbolism & Art Motifs, 4^th ed.  by C. A. S. Williams

Delacroix, exhibit catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Ar

50 Women Artists You Should Know  by Christiane Wiedemann

Monet and Architecture  by Richard Thomson

Navajo Pictorial Weaving, 1860--1950  by Tyrone D. Campbell

Ruth Asawa

The Sistine Chapel: Paradise in Rome  by Ulrich Pfisterer

Women Artists of the American West  ed. by Susan R. Ressler

Architecture / Landscape Design / Urban Planning  

Architectural Guide – Helsinki & Espoo  by Ulf Meyer

Mid-Twentieth Century Architecture in Alaska, a National Park Service publication

Palace of State: The Eisenhower Executive Office Building, a U. S. Commission of Fine Arts publication

Villages of West Africa  by Steven & Cathi House

Graphics / Drawing

 #SAD! Doonesbury in the Time of Trump

Everyone Can Draw  by Barrington Barber

We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust  by Neal Adams

Fashion / Interior Decoration / Design

50 Designers You Should Know

Georg Jensen; Scandinavian Design for Living, exhibit catalog of the Art Institute of Chicago

Love Color; Choosing Colors to Live With  by Anna Starmer

 

Photography

Ansel Adams in Yosemite Valley; Celebrating the Park at 150

Main Street: The Lost Dream of Route 66, photos by Edward Keating

The Photographer’s Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos  by Michael Freeman

Postcards from the Road: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”  by Jonathan Day

Wolfgang Tillmans 2017

Crafts / Applied Arts /How-to

All for Fall: Whimsical Wool Projects and Warm Quilts  by Bonnie Sullivan

Amy Herzog’s Ultimate Sweater Book

Beginner’s Guide to Sculpting Characters in Clay

Embroidered Treasures: Birds; Exquisite Needlework of the Embroiderers’ Guild Collection  by Annette Collinge

Encyclopedia of Pottery Techniques  by Peter Cosentino

Extraordinary Origami: 20 Projects from Contemporary North American Masters

Antiques / Collectibles

Kovels’ Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide 2019

New arts books for Fall!

Like the weather, we've skipped from summer to late fall!  October is the start of our fiscal year here at SLPL, so new books have begun to come in.  Take a look, and enjoy!

Reference

The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, 2018-2019

Standard Catalog of World Coins, 2001–Date, 2018 ed.

Versailles; A Private Invitation  by Guillaume Picon

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

Anni Albers, exhibit catalog of the Tate Modern

Art of the West: Selected Works from the Autry Museum

Artists and Their Books/Books and Their Artists  by Marcia Reed

Ed Ruscha: Course of Empire

50 Art Movements You Should Know  by Rosalind Ormiston

Helen Frankenthaler; 1959 -- 1962

How Do We Look  by Mary Beard

Käthe Kollwitz in Dresden, catalog of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

The Museum of Lost Art  by Noah Charney

A Mouth is Always Muzzled; Six Dissidents, Five Continents, and the Art of Resistance  by Natalie Hopkinson

Ninth Street Women; Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art  by Mary Gabriel

Picasso Ceramics

Architecture / Landscape Design / Urban Planning

Architectural Guide: Tokyo  by Ulf Meyer

Healthy Environments, Healing Spaces

Mexico City Architecture Guide

Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona 1929

100 Buildings, 1900 – 2000

Zed Life: How to Build a Low-Carbon Society Today  by Bill Dunster

Graphics / Drawing

Graphic Style: From Victorian to Hipster, 4^th ed.  by Stephen Heller

It Must Be Art! Big O Poster Artists of the 60s and 70s

Fashion / Interior Decoration / Design

Decorations for Walls & Panels: Early 20^th Century Design & Pattern

A Matter of Style: Intimate Portraits of 10 Women Who Changed Fashion

The Fashion Show: History, Theory, and Practice by Gill Stark

Photography

Mediations  by Susan Meiselas

Motion Picture & Video Lighting for Cinematographers  3^rd ed.  by Blain Brown

Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography  by Phillip Prodger

Crafts / Applied Arts /How-to

Beautiful Beaded Jewelry for Beginners  by Cheryl Owen

Calligraphy Styling; Learn the Art of Beautiful Writing  by Veronica Halim

Color Me Floral; Stunning Monochromatic Arrangements for Every Season  by Kiana Underwood

Designing and Making Rings and Bangles  by Miranda Falkner

Learn to Tapestry Crochet  by Maria Isabel

Modern Tapestry Crochet  by Alessandra Hayden     

Monoprinting  by Jackie Newell

Smøyg: Pattern Darning from Norway  by Yvette Stanton

Antiques / Collectibles

Guide Book of United States Paper Money, 5^th ed.

Hot off the presses -- new arts and crafts books, August 2018

Don't miss these fine books! 

Reference

The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel

Frontier Women and Their Art; A Chronological Encyclopedia

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

The Book as Art: Artists’ Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts

Dubuffet and the City  by Sophie Berrebi

Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas, exhibit catalog of the Seattle Art Museum

Giacometti, exhibit catalog of the Guggenheim Museum

James Rosenquist: Painting as Immersion, exhibit catalog of the Museum Ludwig

John Singer Sargent & Chicago’s Gilded Age, exhibit catalog of the Art Institute of Chicago

Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, exhibit catalog of the Baltimore Museum of Art

Rachel Whiteread, exhibit catalog of Tate Britain

Tiffany’s Glass Mosaics, exhibit catalog from the Corning Museum of Glass

Universal Principles of Art; 100 Key Concepts for Understanding, Analyzing, and Practicing Art  by John A. Parks

Architecture / Landscape Design / Urban Planning

Arquitectonica  by Alastair Gordon

David Chipperfield Architects, Vol. II (updated ed.)

Key Modern Architects; 50 Short Histories of Modern Architecture  by Andrew Higgott

Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South  [Buildings of England]

Your Architecture Career  by Gary Unger

Graphics / Drawing

Brush Pen Illustration  by Sho Ito

Dracopedia Legends: An Artist’s Guide to Drawing Dragons of Folklore

Image Factories. Infographics 1920—1945

Fashion / Interior Decoration / Design

Women Design: Pioneers in Architecture, Industrial, Graphic and Digital Design  by Libby Sellers

Photography

The Black Trilogy; Ralph Gibson, text by Gilles Mora

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to

Arne & Carlos Favorite Designs: Greatest Hits & New Inspirations

Knitted Cats & Dogs  by Sue Stratford

Corner-to-Corner Lap Throws for the Family  by Sarah Zimmerman  

Knitted Bears All Dressed Up!  By Val Pierce

Painting Water in Watercolour  by Terry Harrison

The Royal School of Needlework Book of Embroidery

Tiny Christmas Toys to Knit  by Sachiyo Ishii

Antiques / Collectibles

Guide Book of Flying Eagle and Indian Head Cents, 3^rd ed.  by Richard Snow

In Celebration of Greek Coinage  by Robin J. Eaglen

Miller’s Collectibles Handbook & Price Guide 2019 – 2020

Lots of new arts books!

It's a summer storm of fabulous new titles -- really, something for everyone.  Take a look:

Reference

The FOCAL Encyclopedia of Photography, 4^th ed.

American Colonial Women and Their Art: A Chronological Encyclopedia   

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

Bruce Nauman: Contrapposto Studies

Charles White: A Retrospective, exhibit catalog of the Art Institute of Chicago

The Complete Color Harmony, Pantone Edition

Everything You Know About Art is Wrong  by Matt Brown

Frederic Church; A Painter’s Pilgrimage, exhibit catalog of the Detroit Institute of Arts

Growing up with the Impressionists; The Diary of Julie Manet

Guide to the Getty Villa, Revised edition

I Thought About It in my Head and I Felt it in my Heart But I Made it with my Hands  by Rob Ryan

Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney & the London Painters  by Martin Gayford

The Pixels of Paul Cezanne and Reflections on Other Artists  by Wim Wenders

Textiles of the Middle East and Central Asia; The Fabric of Life  by Fahmida Suleman

Vincent van Gogh; The Starry Night  by Richard Thomson

Architecture / Landscape Design / Urban Planning

As Seen: Exhibitions that Made Architecture and Design History  by Zoe Ryan

Herzog & De Meuron: Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Martha Schwartz Partner; Landscape Art and Urbanism

Morphosis / Thom Mayne; Inspiration and Process in Architecture

Nature by Design; The Practice of Biophilic Design  by Stephen R. Kellert

Richard Meier, Architect  Vol. 7   

Graphics

The Atomic Age Superman

The Complete Peanuts, 1965—1966  by Charles M. Schulz

From Lone Mountain  by John Porcellino

Reportage Illustration; Visual Journalism  by Gary Embury

Rise of the Superheroes  by David Tosh

Photography

A Class of their Own: The Dusseldorf School of Photography  by Maren Polte

Cottonwoods  by Robert Adams

Canon EOS 80D: The Expanded Guide  by David Taylor

David Busch’s Canon EOS Rebel SL2/200D

100 Great Street Photographs  by David Gibson

Why Art Photography?  By Lucy Soutter

Antiques / Collectibles

Guide Book of Franklin & Kennedy Half Dollars  by Rick Tomaska

Guide Book of United States Coins, 2019  (the “Red Book”)

Retro Cameras: The Collector’s Guide to Vintage Film Photography  by John Wade

U. S. Coin Digest, 17^th ed., 2019

Our latest arrivals in Crafts and How-To Books

We may think of crafts as primarily cold- weather activities, but staying in on a sweltering July day and creating something might be just the ticket.  These great titles have arrived recently and are ready for you to check out.

A Celebration of Strong Women: HERStory Quilts  by Susanne Miller Jones

Complete Crochet Course

Complete Photo Guide to Hand Lettering and Calligraphy

Drawing Anatomy  by Barrington Barber  

Drawing School Fundamentals for the Beginner  by Jim Dowdalls

Drawing Wild Animals  by Oana Befort

Encyclopedia of Pastel Techniques

Japanese Knitting Stitch Bible  by Hitomi Shida

The Joy of Jelly Rolls: A Complete Guide to Quiltilng and Sewing using Jelly Rolls  by Carolyn Forster  

Knit Your Story in Yarn  by Dee Hardwicke

Modern Macrame  by Emily Katz

101 Textures in Graphite & Charcoal  by Steven Pearce

Paint Yourself Calm  by Jean Haines

Pencil Art Workshop  by Matt Rota

Picture Framing; 20 Inspirational Projects Shown Step by Step  by Rian Kanduth

Portrait Drawing  by Joanna Henly

Sea Glass Crafts

Shibori  by Nicola Gouldsmith

Stitched Shibori  by Jane Callender

Silk Ribbon Embroidery Chinese Style  by Yuan Weilin

Totally Awesome Tie-Dye  by Suzanne McNeill

200 Embroidered Flowers  by Kristen Gula

 

Brand New Fashion and Interior Design books!

We've received some wonderful books on fashion and interiors this month:

Chair:  500 Designs that Matter

Coastal Blues: ..Decorating with the Colors of the Sea and Sky  by Phoebe Howard

Denim: Street Style, Vintage, Obsession  by Amy Leverton

Fashion Drawing, 2^nd ed.  by John Hopkins

Hello Color; 25 Bright Ideas for DIY Décor  by Rachel Mae Smith

Know-It-All:  Fashion

Menswear Revolution: The Transformation of Contemporary Men’s Fashion  by Jay Bowstead  

Mod New York; Fashion Takes a Trip  by Phyllis Magidson

New York School of Interior Design Home: The Foundations of Enduring Spaces  by Ellen S. Fisher

Quiet Pattern: Gentle Design for Interiors  by Abigail Edwards

Red Carpet: Hollywood Fame and Fashion; photography of Frank Trapper  

Styling with Salvage  by Joanne Palmisano

Vogue On:  Calvin Klein

Vogue On:  Dolce & Gabbana

Vogue On:  Gianni Versace

Vogue On:  Jean Paul Gautier

Vogue On: Manolo Blahnik

Volume: Let Europe’s Finest Style Experts Spice up your Home  by Patrick Kooiman     

WWD: Fifty Years of Ralph Lauren

New Reference and Art History titles

We'll leave architecture, design, photography, and crafts books for the next posting.  This month we have received many wonderful books on art history as a whole, and some important reference books.

Reference

Handbook of United States Coins, 2019 , 76^th ed. (the “Blue Book”)

Miller’s Encyclopedia of Silver Marks  by Judith Miller

Warman’s Antiques & Collectibles, 52^nd ed, 2019

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

Arts and Crafts Tiles: Morris to Voysey  by Rob Higgins

Birds of a Feather: Joseph Cornell’s Homage to Juan Gris, exhibit catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Chronology of Art   by Iaian Zaczek

Georgia O’Keeffe: Visions of Hawai’i  

Giovanni Bellini; Landscapes of Faith in Renaissance Venice, exhibit catalog of the J. Paul Getty Museum

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: A Guide

Kiki Smith: Procession

Living with Leonardo  by Martin Kemp

Lorna Simpson Collages

Persian Art: Collecting the Arts of Iran for the V & A  by Moya Carey

Picturesque and Sublime: Thomas Cole’s Trans-Atlantic Inheritance  by T. J. Barringer

Whitewalling  by Aruna D’Souza

Our most recent offerings in the visual arts

Take a look at our latest books; they range from serious art history to fun crafting!

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

Double Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John De Menil  by Wm. Middleton

Draw Stronger: Self-Care for Cartoonists & Visual Artists  by Kriota Willberg

Lives of the Surrealists  by Desmond Morris

Misère; The Visual Representation of Misery in the 19^th Century  by Linda Nochlin

Peter Paul Rubens; The Homer of Painting  by Gilles Neret

Women: Portraits 1960 – 2000  by Susan Wood

Architecture / Landscape Design / Urban Planning

Amazing Architecture: Marvel at the World’s Coolest Constructions  by Oliver Bennett

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Bachman-Wilson House at Crystal Bridges Museum

Green Escapes: The Guide to Secret Urban Gardens  by Toby Musgrave

Saving Central Park: A History and a Memoir  by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers 

Design / Graphics

Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy, 1966-1967

Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists  by Martha H. Kennedy

Gorey’s Worlds, exhibit catalog of the Wadsworth Atheneum

Fashion / Interior Decoration

Domus 1970 -- 1979

Furnitecture; Furniture that Transforms Space  by Anna Yudina

Photography

Berenice Abbott; A Life in Photography  by Julia Van Haaften

Firecrackers: Female Photographers Now  by Fiona Rogers

On Photography  by Susan Sontag

The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand  by Geoff Dyer

William Eggleston: From Black and White to Color  

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to

Crafting a Patterned Home  by Kristin Nicholas

Encyclopedia of Acrylic Techniques  by Hazel Harrison

Essential Book of Origami  by Michael LaFosse

Japanese Stitches Unraveled  by Wendy Bernard

Macrame at Home  by Natalie Ranae

Recent arts titles for your Month of May enjoyment

As always, if you can't make it down to Central, just place a "Hold" on any of these (except the Reference title) and pick it up at your favorite branch.

Reference

Society of Illustrators 59^th Annual of Illustration

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

Agnes Martin: Pioneer, Painter, Icon  by Henry Martin

Art Collecting Today  by Doug Woodham

Bruce Nauman: A Contemporary [essays]

Charles I; King and Collector  exhibit catalog of the Royal Academy of Arts

Louise Bourgeois; An Unfolding Portrait  by Deborah Wye

Mona Lisa: The People and the Painting  by Martin Kemp

Picasso and the Painting that Shocked the World  by Miles J. Unger

Rubens: His Life and Works in 500 Images  by Susie Hodge

Architecture / Landscape Design / Urban Planning

Architects’ Houses  by Michael Webb

Buildings of Arkansas [SAH Buildings of the U. S. series]

Contemporary Japanese Architects  by Igarashi Taro

Fifty Architects You Should Know  by Isabel Kuhl

Landscape as Urbanism  by Charles Waldheim

Landscape Gardener Ogawa Jihei and His Times  by Suzuki Hiroyuki

100 Years 100 Landscape Designs  by John Hill

Fashion / Interior Decoration

 Corporate Interiors, no. 13

Home: The Best of The New York Times Home Section  by Noel Milea

Your Home, Your Style  by Donna Garlough

Photography

…isms:  Understanding Photography  by Emma Lewis

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to

Creative Beading; The Best Projects from a Year of Bead&Button Magazine

Drawing Trees  by Denis John-Naylor

Fifty Knitted Dolls  by Sarah Keen

Patchwork & Quilting; A Maker’s Guide…inspired by the V & A Collections

Latest, greatest acquisitions

Here is a list of our most recent visual art books.  Stop by or request them!

Reference

Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 2018 ed.

Standard Catalog of World Paper Money, 1961 – Present, 2018 ed.

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

Contemporary Sand Sculpture  by Barbara Purchia

DADA: Art and Anti-Art  by Hans Richter (DADA Centenary Edition)

Architecture / Landscape Design / Urban Planning

Julius Shulman: Modernism Rediscovered  by Pierluigi Serraino

Design / Graphics

Why Art? 4^th ed.  by Eleanor Davis

Fashion / Interior Decoration

Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon; Musings of a Geriatric Starlet (autobiography)

Photography

Faces  by Serge Anton

Harry Benson: Persons of Interest; Photographs That Defined an Era

Where I Find Myself; A Lifetime Retrospective  by Joel Meyerowitz

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to

Animals & Pets; Super-quick Techniques for Amazing Drawings  by Gary Geraths

Candle Making Basics, 2^nd ed. rev.  by Eric Ebeling

Crewel Embroidery; A Practical Guide  by Shelagh Amor

Dare to Sketch: A Guide to Drawing on the Go  by Felix Scheinberger

Embroidered Garden Flowers; Botanicsl Motifs for Needle and Thread  by Kazuko Aoki

Hand Lettering Step by Step  by Kathy Glynn

Red & White Quilting  by Linda Pumphrey

Release Your Creativity: Discover Your Inner Artist with 15 Simple Painting Projects  by Rebecca Schweiger

Scandinavian Needlecraft  by Clare Youngs

Soy Candles; How to Make Good-For-the-Earth, Long-Lasting Candles  by Glenda Short

Antiques / Collectibles

A Tea Caddy Collection  by Mark Bramble

New Art Books for You

Arts libraries are lucky -- we get to buy and lend the most beautiful books!  Take a look at our latest acquisitions:

Reference

Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry, 2^nd ed.  by Francesca Sterlacci

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

All the Things I Lost in the Flood; Essays on Pictures, Language and Code  by Laurie Anderson

Foucault on Painting  by Catherine M. Soussloff

The Life and Works of Leonardo da Vinci  by Rosalind Ormiston

London’s Statues and Monuments  by Peter Matthews

Modern Art in Detail  by Susie Hodge

Architecture / Landscape Design / Urban Planning

The Decorated Garden; 25 Craft Projects for Your Outdoor Space

Design for Good: A New Era of Architecture for Everyone  by John Cary

The Finest Building in America; The New York Crystal Palace  by Edwin G. Burrows

Francis Kere: Serpentine Pavilion 2017

A History of Architectural Conservation, 2^nd ed.  by Jukka Jokilehto

How to Read London: A Crash Course on London Architecture  by Chris Rogers  

How to Read Paris: A Crash Course on Parisian Architecture  by Chris Rogers

The Less is More Garden  by Susan Morrison

Living on Water: Contemporary Houses Framed by Water  by  James Taylor-Foster

Travels with Frank Lloyd Wright  by Gwyn Lloyd Jones

Design / Graphics

Erté (Romain de Tirtoff) 1892--1990

Mangasia; The Definite Guide to Asian Comics  by Paul Gravett

Fashion / Interior Decoration

Be Your Own Decorator: Taking Inspiration and Cues from Today’s Top Designers  by Susanna Salk

THINK:  Radical Vintage; Interiors by Swimberghe & Verlinde

Photography

Bystander: A History of Street Photoraphy

Polaroid: The Complete Guide to Experimental Instant Photography  by Rhiannon Adam

Written in the West, Revisited  by Wim Wenders

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to

Embroidery: A Maker’s Guide…Projects Inspired by the V & A Collection

How to Paint Fast, Loose & Bold  by Patti Mollica

Lalylala’s Beetles, Bugs and Butterflies: A Crochet Story of Tiny Creatures and Big Dreams  by

Loom Knitting  by Lucy Hopping

The Mr. X Stitch Guide to Cross Stitch  by Jamie Chalmers

Women Artist Books on Display

March is Women's History Month.  To celebrate women artists, ignored and marginalized for centuries, books on women visual artists are displayed on our display unit and shelving in the Fine Arts Room.  Here are a few pictures of some of these.  Please visit the room to see more!

The general display cart

Photography

Printmakers

Italian painters

American painters