March 15, 2019

Bid farewell to winter with these great new arts books!

This diverse selection of visual arts and crafts books have arrived in the past two months.  Take a look and enjoy!


Reference
Kehinde Wiley: St. Louis  

Art History / Art Theory / Art World
Arthur Osver; Urban Landscape, Abstraction, and the Mystique of Place, exhibit catalog from….;
A Reckoning  by Judy Chicago
American Art Pottery: The Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection
The Art of Reading; An Illustrated History of Books in Paint  by Jamie Camplin
Beyond the Nile; Egypt and the Classical World
I Too Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100  by Will Haygood
The Last Painting: Final Works of the Great Masters, From Giotto to Twombly  by Bernard Chambaz
Micromosaics  by Heike Zeck
New Media Futures: The Rise of Women in the Digital Arts
New Media Installation; Technology in Public Art
The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World
Performance Now; Live Art for the 21st Century  by RoseLee Goldberg
William Bouguereau; The Essential Works  by Frederick C. Ross


Architecture / Landscape Design / Urban Planning   
Alexander Girard, Architect  by Deborah Kawsky
Architectural Guide: Oslo  by Henning Nielsen
Gardens of the Arts & Crafts Movement, rev. ed.  by Judith B. Tankard
John McAndrew’s Modernist Vision  by Mardges Bacon
Kensington Palace: Art, Architecture and Society
Modernism and American Mid-20th Century Sacred Architecture


Fashion / Interior Decoration / Design  

Design for Children  by Kimberlie Birks
Kitchen Ideas You Can Use  by Chris Peterson
Perfect English  by Ros Byam Shaw
Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America  by Monica Obniski
Thinking in Icons  by Felix Sockwell
Who’s Afraid of Pink, Orange & Green?  by Iris de Feijter

Graphics / Drawing
American Comic Book Chronicles: 1990—99  by Jason Sacks
Strokes of Genius 10
The Two-Pencil Method  by Mark Crilley

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to
American Quilts in the Industrial Age, 1760-1870; The International Quilt Study Cenger & Museum Collections
The Art of Crochet Blankets  by Rachele Carmona
Chinese Embroidery; An Illustrated Stitch Guide  by Shao Xiaocheng   
Corner to Corner Crochet  by Jess Coppom
Feminist Icon Cross-Stitch  by Anna Fleiss
Freestyle Embroidered Mandalas  by Hazel Blomkamp
Garden Stitch Life; 50 Embroidery Motifs & Projects to Grow your Inspiration  by Kazuko Aoki
Gradient Style: Color-Shifting Techniques & Knitting Patterns
The Handmade Quilt; A Complete Skill-Building Sampler  by Carolyn Forster
Modelling and Sculpting the Figure  by Tanya Russell
Sue Stratford’s Knitted Aviary; A Flock of 21 Beautiful Birds to Knit
The Ultimate Brush Lettering Guide  by Peggy Dean