Latest arrivals!

More wonderful new books have arrived, for your reading and viewing pleasure.  To check them out, place a "hold" on them and pick them up at any SLPL branch.

Art History / Design

Alastair Morton and Edinburgh Weavers:  Visionary Textiles and Modern Art  by Lesley Jackson

American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning, and Their Circle, 1927-1942  by William C. Agee, et al.

Art Forgery: The History of a Modern Obsession  by Thierry Lenain

Dard Hunter:  The Graphic Works  by Lawrence Kreisman

The Eugene B. Adkins Collection:  Selected Works, exhibition catalog from the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art

Lest We Forget:  Masterpieces of Patriotic Jewelry and Military Decorations  by Judith Price

Passion for Primitives: Folk Décor for Interior Design  by Franklin Schmidt

Precarious Worlds: Contemporary Art from Germany, exhibition catalog from the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum

Rembrandt in America;  Collecting and Connoisseurship,  exhibition catalog from the Cleveland Museum of Art

Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum  by Nicholas Tromans

Sustainability in Interior Design  by Sian Moxon

 

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Design

Beth Sholom Synagogue:  Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Religious Architecture  by Joseph M. Siry

Fallout Shelter:  Designing for Civil Defense in the Cold War  by David Monteyne

The Future of Architecture Since 1889  by Jean-Louis Cohen

A Guide to Smithsonian Gardens  by Carole Ottesen

Princeton and the Gothic Revival, 1870-1930  by Johanna G. Seasonwein

 

Photography

Cindy Sherman,  exhibition catalog from the Museum of Modern Art

 

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-To Books

Advanced Pottery  by Linda Bloomfield

The Best of Knit Along with Debbie Macomber

 

Music

Coltrane on Coltrane:  The John Coltrane Interviews  edited by Chris DeVito

Fashion Designers at the Opera  by Helena Matheopoulos

Franz Waxman’s Rebecca; a Film Score Guide  by David Neumeyer

Hip Hop’s Inheritance:  From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip  Hop Feminist Movement  by Reiland Rabaka

History of Missouri Bands, 1800 to 2000  by C. Herbert Duncan

The Routledge Film Music Sourcebook

Source:  Music of the Avant-Garde, 1966-1973  edited by Larry Austin

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Ballets Russes;  The Art of Costume,  exhibition catalog from the National Gallery of Australia

Irving Berlin’s American Musical Theater  by Jeffrey Magee

The Cinema of Preston Sturges; a Critical Study  by Alessandro Pirolini

Hollywood’s Italian American Filmmakers  by Jonathan J. Cavallero

Post-9/11 Cinema:  Though a Lens Darkly  by John Markert

Stravinsky’s Ballets  by Charles M. Joseph

The Cinematic Footprint:  Lights, Camera, Natural Resources  by Nadia Bozak

 

Antiques / Collectibles

Miller’s Collectibles Handbook, 2012-2013  by Judith Miller

Landmarks Assn. Preservation Week Activities

Don't forget to check out all the fun and educational events that the Landmarks  Association of St. Louis is hosting this month.  One highlight is a bus trip to Louisiana, Missouri to view its historic homes and other architecture.  It's this coming Saturday, so sign up now!  Here is the link: http://www.landmarks-stl.org/events/

Central to Your World

...a.k.a.  C2YW, is a website that follows and celebrates the ongoing renovation and renewal of the historic Central Library building.  "Check it out" at:  www.c2yw.org

And by the way, the Grand Re-opening of Central is scheduled for Sunday, December 9, 2012, when everyone is invited to come and see the transformation and restoration!

May Day 2012 -- new arts books for you

Just request any of them at an SLPL branch, and we'll send them... 

Art History / Design

The Beautiful Walls:  Photographic Elevations of Street Art in Los Angeles, Berlin and Paris, by Larry Yust, photographer and Patrick A. Polk

A Bigger Message:  Conversations with David Hockney  by Martin Gayford

Diana Vreeland:  The Eye Has to Travel  by Lisa Vreeland

In Search of Julien Hudson:  Free Artist of Color in Pre-Civil War New Orleans, exhibition catalog from The Historic New Orleans Collection

The Pulse of Mixed Media:  Secrets and Passions of 100 Artists Revealed  by Seth Apter

Thirty-six Views of the Eiffel Tower:  A Turn-of-the-Century Tribute to the City of Light  by Henri Riviere

 

Architecture

The Architecture of Alfred Browning Parker; Miami’s Maverick Modernist  by Randolph C. Henning

Carrère & Hastings:  The Masterworks

Free University of Berlin: Foster + Partners

The Heights:  Anatomy of a Skyscraper  by Kate Ascher

Luis Barragan:  His House

Rogers Marvel Architects

 

Music

 Look, I Made a Hat; Collected Lyrics (1981-2011)  by Stephen Sondheim

Love goes to Buildings on Fire; Five Years in New York that Changed Music Forever  by Will Hermes

 

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Apocalypse on the Set:  Nine Disastrous Film Productions  by Ben Taylor

The Martial Arts Cinema of the Chinese Diaspora:  Ang Lee, John Woo, and Jackie Chan in Hollywood  by Kin-Yan Szeto

Mike Leigh  by Sean O’Sullivan

21^st Century Hollywood:  Movies in the Era of Transformation  by Wheeler W. Dixon

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