Welcome Baseball Season with new...Art Books?

Yes, even art lovers and librarians can be baseball fans, too, especially here in St. Louis.  These great new books can be checked out by placing a "hold" on them and picking them up at your favorite SLPL branch.  Come December, if all goes as planned, you'll be able to come in to the newly renovated Central Library and see them in person! 

Art History / Design

Ancient Egypt at the Cairo Museum, edited by Ali Radwan

Anselm Kiefer:  Salt of the Earth  by Germano Celant

The Best of Both Worlds:  Finely Printed Livres d’Artistes, 1910-2010  by Jerry Kelly

Eyeminded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art  by Kellie Jones

Gerhard Richter:  Images of an Era, exhibition catalog of the Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg

How to Look at a Painting  by Francoise Barbe-Gall

Howard Pyle:  American Master Rediscovered, exhibition catalog from the Delaware Art Museum

Kings, Queens, and Courtiers; Art in Early Renaissance France, exhibition catalog of the Art Institute of Chicago

Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark:  Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York, 1970s, catalog of the Barbican Art Gallery, London

Modern Life:  Edward Hopper and His Time, exhibition catalog of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Monet:  The Master Jewelers  by Alice Vega

The Muses go to School; Inspiring Stories about the Importance of Arts in Education  edited by Herbert Kohl

Narcissus in the Studio:  Artist Portraits and Self-Portraits, exhibition catalog of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

PANTONE® :  The 20^th Century in  Color  by  Leatrice Eiseman

Races of Mankind:  The Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman  by Marianne Kinkel

The Story of De Stijl; Mondrian to Van Doesburg  by Hans Janssen

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-To Books

Carving a Coyote in Soapstone  by Tasha Unninayer

The Fashion Careers Guidebook  by Julia Yates

Fashion Design Essentials:  100 Principles of Fashion Design  by Jay Calderin

Furniture with Soul:  Master Woodworkers and Their Craft  by David Savage

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Design

C.F.A. Voysey:  Architect, Designer, Individualist  by Anne Stewart O’Donnell

The Great Court at the British Museum, Sir Norman Foster

Green & Green; Developing a California Architecture  by Bruce Smith

Le Corbusier & Lucien Hervé;  A Dialogue between Architect and Photographer  by Jacques Sbriglio

Photography

Architectural Photography  by Adrian Schulz

Thomas Struth;  Photographs 1978-2010

Music

The Hammond Organ; An Introduction to the Instrument and the Players who made it Famous  by Scott Faragher

Henry Mancini:  Reinventing Film Music  by John Caps

 

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Federico Fellini  by Angel Quintana

Ingmar Bergman  by Jacques Mandelbaum

Monsters in the Movies; 100 Years of Cinematic Nightmares  by John Landis

 

Antiques / Collectibles

Official Vintage Guitar magazine Price Guide, 2012

Warman’s U. S. Stamps Field Guide, 2^nd Edition  by Maurice D. Wozniak

Welcome April with New Books on the Arts

More great new titles have come in to end the month of March on a high note.  If you would like to check any of these books out, just place a "hold" on them from your computer or contact any SLPL branch.

Art History / Design

Andy Warhol:  The Early Sixties, exhibition catalog from the Kunstmuseum Basel

Atomic Ranch:  Midcentury Interiors  by Michelle Gringeri-Brown

Constable and Salisbury:  The Soul of Landscape  by Timothy Wilcox

The Controversy of Renaissance Art  by Alexander Nagel

Design After Modernism:  Furniture and Interiors 1970-2010  by Judith Gura

Francois Berthold Studio:  The Art of Fashion Illustration

Labeling America:  Popular Culture on Cigar Box Labels  by John Grossman

Nam June Paik,  exhibition catalog from Tate Liverpool

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-To Books

Arts & Crafts of the Native American Tribes  by Michael G. Johnson

Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement  by Suzi Parron

Masters:  Polymer Clay; Major Works by Leading Artists  by Rachel Carren

The Profitable Artist:  A Handbook for All Artists in the Performing, Literary, and Visual Arts

Quilts 1700-2010:  Hidden Histories, Untold Stories, exhibition catalog from the V & A

Textiles:  The Whole Story; Uses, Meanings, Significance  by Beverly Gordon

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Design

The Badia of Florence:  Art and Observance in a Renaissance Monastery  by Anne Leader

 

Bernard Maybeck:  Architect of Elegance  by Mark Anthony Wilson

The Ecological House:  Sustainable Architecture around the World  by Marco Moro

Louis Sullivan; Creating a New American Architecture  by Patrick F. Cannon

The Reichstag:  Foster + Partners  by  Norman Foster

Music

Long Lost Blues:  Popular Blues in America, 1850-1920  by Peter C. Muir

Making your Mark in Music; Stage Performance Secrets  by Anika Paris

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

The Astaires:  Fred & Adele  by Kathleen Riley

Cannes Cinema:  A Visual History of the World’s Greatest Film Festival  by Serge Toubiana

 

Cinema Italiano:  The Complete Guide from Classics to Cult  by Howard Hughes

Fifty Contemporary Film Directors (2^nd edition)  edited by Yvonne Tasker

100 Film Musicals;  BFI Screen Guides  by Jim Millier

The Philosophy of Spike Lee  edited by Mark T. Conard

Antiques / Collectibles

A Kind of Archeology; Collecting American Folk Art, 1876-1976  by Elizabeth Stillinger

 

Chinese Bronze Ware  by Li Song

Chinese Ceramics  by Fang Lili

Welcome Spring with beautiful new Art Books

After several weeks of no deliveries, we just received a big bunch of beautiful books.  Several are lovely books about jewelry, so we've given them a special section.   As always, if you would like to check any of these books out, just place a request on them and pick them up at any of our branches.

Art History / Design

Alex Steinweiss:  The Inventor of the Modern Album Cover  by Kevin Reagan

Graphic Design:  Now in Production, exhibition catalog from the Walker Art Center

Graphic Design Referenced:  A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications, and History of Graphic Design  by Bryony Gomez-Palacio

Stieglitz and his Artists:  Matisse to O’Keeffe; The Alfred Stieglitz Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Through African Eyes:  The European in African Art, 1500 to Present, exhibition catalog of the Detroit Institute of Arts

Special Feature:  Jewelry

Artful Adornments:  Jewelry from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Crown Jewels  by Anna Keay

Jewelry by Artists:  In the Studio, 1940-2000; Selections from the Daphne Farago Collection

Turkmen Jewelry:  Silver Ornaments from the Marshall & Marilyn R. Wolf Collection

21^st Century Jewelry:  The Best of the 500 Series  by Marthe Le Van

Vintage Jewelry Design:  Classics to Collect and Wear  by Caroline Cox

Architecture / Planning/ Landscape Design

Adirondack Style:  Great Camps and Rustic Lodges  by F-Stop Fitzgerald

The Invisible Element of Place:  The Architecture of David Salmela  by Thomas Fisher

The Life and Death of Buildings:  On Photography and Time  by Joel Smith

Railroad Stations:  The Buildings that Linked the Nation  by David Naylor

21^st Century London:  The New Architecture  by Kenneth Powell

The Looshaus  by Christopher Long
 

Photography

The Changing Face of Portrait Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital  by Shannon Thomas Perich

FP365:  A One-Year Photographic Diary of Forest Park  by Alex Paradowski

The Radical Camera:  New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951  by Mason Klein

What Photography Is  by James Elkins

Crafts and How-to Books

The Ceramics Bible:  The Complete Guide to Materials and Techniques  by Louisa Taylor

Classic Portrait Painting in Oils:  Keys to Mastering Diverse Skin Tones  by Chris Saper

Woodburning Project & Pattern Treasury  by Deborah Pompano

Music

Changing Lives:  Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music  by Tricia Tunstall

Group Harmony:  The Black Urban Roots of Rhythm & Blues  by Stuart L. Goosman

Music of the 1990s  by Thomas Harrison

The Resurrection of Johnny Cash  by Graeme Thomson
 

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

The Chinese Cinema Book  edited by Song Hwee Lim

I Want My MTV:  The Uncensored Story of the Music video Revolution  by Craig Marks

The Literary Monster on Film; Five 19^th Century British Novels & Their Cinematic Adaptations  by Abigail Burnham Bloom

Three Stooges FAQ  by David J. Hogan

New art and music books for Leap Day, 2012

Yes, it's that once-every-four-years happy day.  Presidential elections and the Summer Olympics are always held on leap years.  Here are some interesting new additions to our collection to celebrate.

Art History / Design

Bookwork:  Medium to Object to Concept to Art  by Garrett Stewart

Florence and Baghdad:  Renaissance Art and Arab Science  by Hans Belting

German Expressionism:  The Graphic Impulse, exhibition catalog from the Museum of Modern Art

The House that Sam Built:  Sam Maloof and Art in the Pomona Valley, 1945-1985  by Harold Nelson

The Moderns:  The Arts in Ireland from the 1900s to the 1970s, exhibition catalog of the Irish Museum of Modern Art

Plains Indian Art:  The Pioneering Work of John C. Ewers

Warhol:  Headlines  by Molly Donovan

  

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Design

Alison & Peter Smithson;  A Critical Anthology  edited by Max Risselada

Edward Durell Stone:  A Son’s Untold Story of a Legendary Architect  by Hicks Stone

Tudoresque:  In Pursuit of the Ideal Home  by Andrew Ballantyne

 

Photography

Alfred Stieglitz:  A Legacy of Light  by Katherine Hoffman

 

Music

Christian Music; A Global History  by Tim Dowley

Evenings at the Opera:  An Exploration of the Basic Repertoire  by Jeffrey Langford

Music of the 1980s  by Thomas Harrison

Rock and Roll Always Forgets;  A Quarter Century of Music Criticism  by Chuck Eddy

Segregating Sound:  Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow  by Karl H. Miller

Big batch of beautiful books

Yes, we've had a windfall of really nice new arts books this week.  Enjoy!

Art History / Design

Ai Weiwei’s Blog:  Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009

Art Deco Postcards  by Patricia Bayer

Art for Sale:  A Candid View of the Art Market  by Dirk Boll

Art of Two Germanys:  Cold War Cultures, exhibition catalog from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Arts & Crafts of the Native American Tribes  by Michael G. Johnson

Carl Gustave Waldeck  by Carl R. Waldeck

Contemporary African Fashion  edited by Suzanne Gott

The Drawings of The Electric Pencil

Expressive Modern:  The Interiors of Amy Lau

Gerhard Richter:  Panorama

Heroic Africans:  Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures  by Alisa LaGamma

Identify:  Basic Principles of Identity Design in the Iconic Trademarks of Chermayeff & Geismar

Krazy Kat;  The Art of George Herriman  by Craig Yoe

Leonora Carrington:  Surrealism, Alchemy and Art  by Susan L. Aberth

Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Queen:  Art & Image  by Paul Moorhouse

The Ronald S. Lauder Collection:  Selections  

Sol Lewitt, Structures, 1965-2006

Writing Art History:  Disciplinary Departures  by Margaret Iversen

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Architecture

Architect for Art:  Max Gordon

Bertrand Goldberg:  Architecture of Invention

European Gardens:  History, Philosophy and Design  by Tom Turner

Crafts & How-to

America’s Doll House:  The Miniature World of Faith Bradford  by William L. Bird, Jr.

Contemporary Drawing;  Key Concepts and Techniques

Hoopla:  The Art of Unexpected Embroidery  by Leanne Prain

How to Paint Living Portraits  by Roberta Carter Clark

Sketching People:  Faces and Figures  by Giovanni Civardi

Starting your Career as an Artist  by Angie Wojak

Photography

500 Cameras:  170 Years of Photographic Innovation  by Todd Gustavson

How to Do Everything:  Digital Photography  by Jason R. Rich

Man Ray / Lee Miller:  Partners in Surrealism  by Phillip Prodger

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Inside Pee-Wee’s Playhouse  by Caseen Gaines

New arts books for mid-February

Great new books continue to come in!  We are very lucky here in St. Louis that we still have a decent budget to buy books (and other materials) for our collections.  Many public libraries around the country are slashing budgets, closing locations, and reducing staff.  We don't believe it will come to that here.  So, if you would like to check out these or any other titles, just "place a hold" on them through our catalog, or call any of our branch service desks.  Enjoy!

Art History / Design

Art for the Nation:  The Eastlakes and the Victorian Art World  by Susanna Avery-Quash

Christ to Coke:  How Image Becomes Icon  by Martin Kemp

Diego Rivera:  Murals for the Museum of Modern Art  by Leah Dickerman

Fashion Design Directory  by Marnie Fogg

Graffiti and Street Art  by Anna Wacawek

Korean Buncheong Ceramics

New China New Art  by Richard Vine

Performance Art:  From Futurism to the Present, 3^rd ed.  by RoseLee Goldberg

Roberto Capucci; Art into Fashion  by Dilys Blum

Velazquez an the Surrender of Breda  by Anthony Bailey

Washington Crossing the Delaware; Restoring an American Masterpiece  by Carrie R. Barrett

Crafts

Introducing Pottery:  The Complete Guide  by Dan Rhode

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Architecture

Jean Prové:  La Maison Tropicale/The Tropical House, exhibition catalog of the Centre Pompidou

Saving Wright:  The Freeman House  by Jeffrey M. Chusid

Music

Amazing Grace  by Aaron Cohen

Buena Vista in the Club:  Rap, Reggaeton, and Revolution in Havana  by Geoffrey Baker

The Drum:  A History  by Matt Dean

Music Makes Me:  Fred Astaire and Jazz  by Todd Decker

Pop Music, Pop Culture  by Chris Rojek

Representing Black Music Culture; Then, Now, and When Again  by William C. Banfield

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Directory of World Cinema:  Spain

Flickers of Desire:  Movie Stars of the 1910s  by Jennifer M. Bean

Knockout:  The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema  by Leger Grindon

100 Cult Films  by Ernest Mathijs

Scorsese on Scorsese  edited by Michael Henry Wilson

Something’s Coming, Something Good:  West Side Story and the American Imagination  by Misha Berson

February's New Books

Here are our latest acquisitions in Arts subjects.  Just request them and check them out at any of our branches.

Art History / Design

Cats, Dogs, Men, Women, Ninnies & Clowns; The Lost Art of William Steig  by Jeanne Steig

Chinese Export Ceramics  by Rose Kerr

Defining Contemporary Art—25 Years in 200 Pivotal Artworks 

Discovering Leonardo  by Rebecca Tucker

Duncan Phyfe:  Master Cabinetmaker in New York  by Peter M. Kenny

European Sculpture, 1400-1900, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art  by Ian Wardropper

Infinite Jest:  Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine  by Constance McPhee

Leonardo da Vinci; Painter at the Court of Milan  by Luke Syson

Ocean Liner Posters  by Gabriele Cadringher

Open Studios with Lotta Jansdotter

Railway Posters  by Thierry Favre

Recycling & Redesigning Logos:  A Designer’s Guide   by Michael Hodgson

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Architecture

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Sacred Architecture;  Faith, Form, and Technology  by Anat Geva

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesen Illustrated by Vintage Postcards  by Randolph C. Henning

Matter in the Floating World; Conversations with Leading Japanese Architects and Designers  by Blaine Brownell

Shingle Style Architecture for the 21^st Century  by E. Ashley Rooney

Photography

Eyewitness:  Hungarian Photography in the Twentieth Century  by Peter Baki

Food Styling:  The Art of Preparing Food for the Camera  by Delores Custer

Music

Best Music Writing 2011 edited by Alex Ross

The Folk Music Revival, 1958-1970  by David Dicaire

Willie Dixon:  Preacher of the Blues  by Mitsutoshi Inaba

Antiques / Collectibles

The Joys of Collecting  by J. Paul Getty