April 12, 2011

Latest Arrivals, April 2011

Just a reminder:  even though we are closed, we are still ordering and receiving new books.  You can check these books out by placing a request on them and having them sent to any SLPL branch.  For details, see the first posts about this, written in November, 2010.   Enjoy!

Art History / Design / Craft

Bookplates and Badges of C. F. A. Voysey  by Karen Livingstone

Graphic: Inside the Sketchbooks of the World’s Great Graphic Designers  by Steven Heller

A History of American Tonalism, 1880-1920  by David A Cleveland

The Jewelry Architect: Techniques + Projects for Mixed-Media Jewelry  by Kate McKinnon

Makers: A History of American Studio Craft  by Janet Koplos

Monet and his Muse: Camille Monet in the Artist’s Life  by Mary Mathews Gedo

Representing Africa in American Art Museums: A Century of Collecting and Display  ed. by Kathleen Bickford Berzock and Christa Clarke

Stepping-Stones: A Journey Through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne  by Christine Desdemaines-Hugon.


Architecture / Planning / Landscape

Masterworks: Architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts  by Neil Bingham

The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture  by Pier Vittorio Aureli

Sustainism is the New Modernism  by Michiel Schwarz


Music

Blue Smoke: The Recorded Journey of Big Bill Broonzy  by Roger House

Heat Wave: The Life and Career of Ethel Waters  by Donald Bogle

Soul of the Man: Bobby “Blue” Bland  by Charles Farley

Tipbook Music on Paper: Basic Theory  by Hugo Pinksterboer


Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley  by Jeffrey Spivak

Designs on Film: A Century of Hollywood Art Direction  by Cathy Whitlock

Jaws (British Film Institute Modern Classics)  by Antonia Quirke

Stage Fighting: A Practical Guide  by Jonathan Howell

Stage Management: The Essential Handbook  by Gail Pallin


Antiques / Collectibles

Empire Without End: Antiquities Collections in Renaissance Rome, 1350-1527  by Kathleen Wren Christian

Miller’s Costume Jewelry  by Judith Miller

April 7, 2011

View Central reconstruction online

There is now a section of the SLPL website where both historic and current photographs and plans of the Central building can be viewed. It also includes information on the history of the library as an institution, and information on Central's architect, Cass Gilbert.

You can choose the "Central Renewal" panel from the library's homepage (www.slpl.org), or you can go directly to it at http://central.slpl.org/

March 14, 2011

Recent Arrivals in time for the Ides of March

More great titles have arrived. They are available to be checked out through our branches. See earlier posts for details.


Art History / Design / Craft

Abitare: 50 Years of Design

Alexander McQueen: Genius of a Generation by Kristin Knox

American Paintings and Works on Paper in The Barnes Foundation

Andy Warhol Enterprises, exhibition catalog from the Indianapolis Museum of Art

Artistic Circles: Design & Decoration in the Aesthetic movement by Charlotte Gere

August Rodin by Jane Mayo Roos

Donald Judd by David Raskin

The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City by Nancy Zeng Berliner

Henry Moore, exhibition catalog from Tate Britain

Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage, exhibition catalog from The Menil Collection

Modern Masters: American Abstraction at Midcentury from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, exhibition catalog

Movement and Balance: Sophie Taeuber-Arp 1889-1943, exhibition catalog from the Arp Museum

Packaging Design: A Cultural Sign by Edwin Visser

Salvador Dali: The Late Work, exhibition catalog from the High Museum of Art

Shiela Hicks: 50 Years by Joan Simon

Stitchopedia: The Only Embroidery Reference You’ll ever Need by Helen Winthorpe Kendrick

Titian: The Last Days by Mark Hudson

Wharton Esherick: The Journey of a Creative Mind by Mansfield Bascom


Architecture / Planning / Landscape

Auldbrass: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Southern Plantation by David G. De Long

Building Brasilia by Kenneth Frampton

Gerrit Reitveld by Ida von Zijl

Gio Ponti by Ugo La Pietra

Miami Beach Deco by Steven Brooke

1000 Architectural Details: A Selection of the World’s Most Interesting Building Elements by Alex Sanchez Vidiella

Shopping: Architecture Now! by Philip Jodidio

Visual Planning and the Picturesque by Nikolaus Pevsner


Music

For the Parlor and the Concert Stage: A Guide to Recent Collections of American Piano Music by Keith C. Ward

Living Opera by Joshua Jampol

The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can’t Do Without It by Philip Ball

Ray and Me by Marci Soto (Ray Charles)


Photography

Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan by Toby Jurovics

Stieglitz Steichen Strand: Masterworks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art


Antiques / Collectibles

Character & Novelty Clocks & Watches: Identifications and Values by Jim Collings

Encyclopedia of Barbie Doll & Family Licensed Products by Alva Christensen

English & Irish Delftware, 1570 – 1840 by Aileen Dawson

March 1, 2011

Newly Arrived Books in the Arts

More great books are arriving every week! Get them while they're hot off the presses! Remember you can request any of these online, using your card, and pick them up at any SLPL branch.


Art History / Design / Craft

Abstract Expressionism at the Museum of Modern Art by Ann Temkin

Emerging Fashion Designers by Sally Congdon-Martin

The Essential Durer edited by Larry Silver and Jeffrey Chipps Smith

G: An Avant-Garde Journal of Art, Architecture, Design, and Film 1923-1926 edited by Detlef Mertins and Michael W. Jennings

Gauguin: Maker of Myth edited by Belinda Thompson

The Great Migrator: Robert Rauschenberg and the Global Rise of American Art by Hiroko Ikegami

Henri Matisse: Rooms with a View by Shirley Neilsen Blum

100 Posters, 134 Squirrels…: The Posters of Jay Ryan

Sigmar Polke: Fenster-Windows Grossmunster Zurich

Stephen Jones & The Accent of Fashion

Will Eisner: A Dreamer’s Life in Comics by Michael Schumacher

The World’s Most Influential Fashion Designers by Noel Palomo-Lovinsky


Architecture / Planning / Landscape

Andrea Palladio and the Architecture of Battle, with the Unpublislhed Edition of Polybius’ Histories edited by Guido Beltramini

Jack Lenor Larsen’s LongHouse by Molly Chappellet

New Haiti Villages: Steven Holl Architects by Steven Holl

The Power of Pro Bono: 40 Stories about Design for the Public Good by Architects and Their Clients edited by John Cary

Seeking the Sacred in Contemporary Religious Architecture by Douglas R. Hoffman


Music

Beethoven and the Grosse Fuge: Music, Meaning, and Beethoven’s Most Difficult Work by Robert S. Kahn

Gone to the Country: The New Lost City Ramblers and the Folk Music Revival by Ray Allen

Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan’s Road from Minnesota to the World

In the City: A Celebration of London Music by Paul Du Noyer

Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America’s Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century by Barry Mazor


Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Cinema Today: A Conversation with Thirty-nine Filmmakers from around the World by Elena Oumano

HAIR: The Story of the Show that Defined a Generation by Eric Grode

Kubrick’s Hope: Discovering Optimism from 2001 to Eyes Wide Shut by Julian Rice


Photography

Walker Evans: Decade by Decade by James Crump


Antiques / Collectibles

100 Greatest U.S. Error Coins by Nicholas P. Brown

February 15, 2011

Lots of great new arts books!

We've received quite a nice haul of newly-published books since our last update. Just put any of these on request to be picked up at any branch if you would like to read it.

Art History / Design / Craft

Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, exhibition catalog from Tate Liverpool

Anna Sui by Andrew Bolton

Art for All: British Posters for Transport, exhibition catalog from the Yale Center for British Art

The Art of Ancient Greek Theater, exhibition catalog from the Getty Museum

The Art of Classic Rock by Paul Grushkin

The Finest Rooms in America by Thomas Jayne

French Illuminated Manuscripts in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Thomas Kren

Illuminated Manuscripts from Belgium and the Netherlands in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Thomas Kren

In Giocometti’s Studio by Michael Peppiatt

Jewels of the Romanovs: Family and Court by Stefano Papi

Mata Ortiz Pottery Today by Guy Berger

A Museum of One’s Own: Private Collecting, Public Gift by Anne Higonnet

The Private World of Yves Saint Laurent & Pierre Berge by Robert Murphy

A Revolution in Wood: The Bresler Collection, exhibition catalog from Renwick Gallery/Smithsonian

Syrie Maugham by Pauline C. Metcalf

The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York , exhibition catalog from Tate Britain


Architecture / Planning / Landscape

American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture by Alice T. Friedman

Cowboys Stadium: Architecture, Art, Entertainment by David Dillon

Frank Williams Architect (this book is 18 inches tall)

Joseph Urban by John Loring

Mosques of Istanbul by Henry Matthews

Peter Pennoyer Architects by Anne Walker-McBay

Small Scale Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement, exhibition catalog MoMA

Sverre Fehn: The Pattern of Thoughts by Per Olaf Fjeld

Terror and Wonder: Architecture in a Tumultuous Age by Blair Kamin


Music

Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World by John Szwed

The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess: A 75th Anniversary Celebration by Robin Thompson


Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Bringing up Oscar: The Story of the Men and Woman Who Founded the Academy by Debra Ann Pawlak

Performing Shakespeare by John Hester

Pick Yourself Up: Dorothy Fields and the American Musical by Charlotte Greenspan

Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History by Constance Valis Hill


Photography

Andre Kertesz by Michel Frizot

Auto Focus: The Self-Portrait in Contemporary Photography by Susan Bright

The Jazz Image: Seeing Music through Herman Leonard’s Photography by K. Heather Pinson


Antiques / Collectibles

Halloween in America: A Collector’s Guide with Prices, 2nd edition by Stuart Schneider

L. E. Smith: Encyclopedia of Glass Patterns & Products by Tom Felt

The Official M. I. Hummel Price Guide by Heidi Ann Von Recklinghausen

January 21, 2011

January 2011 Book Acquisitions

Here are some new books that might help you enjoy the January Thaw. Don't forget, although the department is not open, all of these books can be requested and picked up at our branches. See earlier posts for details if you aren't sure how this works.


Art History / Design

Billy Baldwin: The Great American Decorator by Adam Lewis

Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject by Kirsten Pai Buick

Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea by Daniel Finamore

The Century of Modern Design: The Liliane and David M. Stewart Program for Modern Design by David Hanks

On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, Museum of Modern Art exhibition catalog

Otto Dix: The Art of Life by Philipp Gutbrod

Piero Fornasetti: A Conversation between Philippe Starck and Barnaba Fornasetti by Brigitte Fitoussi

A Laboratory for Art: Harvard’s Fogg Museum and the Emergence of Conservation in America, 1900-1950 by Francesca G. Bewer

A Real Van Gogh: How the Art World Struggles with Truth by Henk Tromp

The Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art


Architecture / Landscape / Planning

The Architecture of Bart Prince: A Pragmatics of Place, revised ed. by Christopher Curtis Mead

Explorations: The Architecture of John Ronan

Frederick Law Olmsted; Essential Texts edited by Robert Twombly

Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities by Witold Rybczynski

On Architecture by Vitruvius (new translation by Richard Schofield)

Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour at Acadia Summer Arts Program by Marion Boulton Stroud


Music

Adolf Busch: The Life of an Honest Musician, Vol. 1 by Tully Potter

Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment edited by Richard Carlin

Bayou Underground: Tracing the Mythical Roots of American Popular Music by Dave Thompson

Jazz Books in the 1990s: An Annoted Bibliography by Janice L. H. Greenberg

Let Freedom Swing: Collected Writings on Jazz, Blues, and Gospel by Howard Reich

Natalie Curtis Burlin: A Life in Native and African American Music by Michelle Wick Patterson

A Peter Seeger Discography: Seventy Years of Recordings by David Dunaway

Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions, 2nd edition edited by Mark Eden Horowitz

Theater / Dance / Movies / TV

At This Theatre: 110 Years of Broadway Shows, Stories & Stars by Robert Viagas

Von Sternberg by John Baxter


Antiques / Collectibles

The Sanders Autograph Price Guide by Richard Saffro

Warman's World War II Collectibles: Identification and Price Guide by Michael E. Haskew

January 6, 2011

Happy New Year! Here are our most recent acquisitions; you are welcome to check them out by having them sent to one of our branches. For details, see earlier posts.


Art History, Design

Green Interior Design by Lori Dennis

Illuminated Manuscripts of Germany and Central Europe in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Thomas Kren

Joe Jones: Radical Painter of the American Scene [St. Louis Art Museum exhibit]

Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam by Ladan Akbarnia

The Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC [MFA Boston exhibit]

Théodore Géricault by Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer

The Victoria and Albert Museum by Lucy Trench

Willem De Kooning: The Artist’s Materials by Susan F. Lake


Architecture / Planning / Landscape

Acropolis Museum Athens by Bernard Tschumi

Catalogue of the Andrew Alpern Collection of Drawing Instruments by the Avery Architectural Library, Columbia University

Josep Lluis Sert: Fundació Joan Miró

Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities by Witold Rybczynski

Scottish Baronial Castles 1250—1450 by Michael Brown

Stairways by Hans Weidinger

Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White; Art, Architecture, Scandal, and Class in America’s Gilded Age by Mosette Broderick


Photography

Jack London: Photographer by Jeanne Campbell Reesman, et al.

New Orleans 1867: Photographs by Theodore Lilienthal by Gary A. Van Zante


Music

An Illustrated History of Gospel by Steve Turner