Latest arrivals to enjoy in Spring

Whew!  Looks like we're finally through with our long, cold winter.  These new books should put a smile on the face of any arts lover.  If you can't make it to Central to see them and all our other fabulous books, you can always request that they be sent to your neighborhood branch.

Art History / Art Theory

The Armory Show at 100:  Modernism and Revolution

Art & Place: Site Specific Art of the Americas  by Amanda Renshaw

Capital Culture; J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience  by Neil Harris

Nicole Eisenman

Piero’s Light; In Search of Piero Della Francesca  by Larry Witham

Printmaking Off the Beaten Track  by Richard Noyce

 

Architecture / Landscape Design 

Houses without Names; Architectural Nomenclature and the Classification of

       America’s Common Houses  by Thomas C. Hubka

Meier:  Richard Meier & Partners; Complete Works 1963-2013  by Philip Jodidio

World Man  by R. Buckminster Fuller

Sergei Tchoban: Architecture

Tennessee Log Buildings; A Folk Tradition  by John B. Rehder 

Photography

The Art of the Photograph; Essential Habits for Stronger Compositions  by Art Wolfe

Color: A Photographer’s Guide…  by Jerod Foster

A Royal Passion: Queen Victoria and Photography  by Anne M. Lyden

Work  by Klaus Mitteldorf

 

Design / Interior Decoration / Graphics / Fashion

Graphic Design for Fashion  by Jay Hess

House Beautiful Color  by Lisa Cregan

How to Decorate; An Inspiring and Practical Handbook  by Shannon Fricke

Remodelista; A Manual for the Considered Home  by Julie Carlson

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to

Connect the Shapes; Crochet Motifs   by Edie Eckman

Inside Acrylics; Studio Secrets from Today’s Top Artists  by Phil Garrett

Spinning and Dyeing Yarn  by Ashley Martineau

The Steampunk Adventurer’s Guide; Contraptions, Creations, and Curiosities Anyone can Make  by Thomas Willeford

Antiques / Collectibles

Plastic Jewelry, revised 5^th edition  by Lyngerda Kelly

March Art Book Madness

Lots of wonderful new books have arrived this month:

Reference

American Illustration, ed. 32, 2014

Art and Architecture in Mexico  by James Oles

The Fashion Design Reference + Specification Book  by Jay Calderin

Miller’s Antique Marks  by Judith Miller

Standard Catalog of World Paper Money: Specialized Issues, 12^th  edition

 Art History / Art Theory

Calder and Abstraction, exhibit catalog of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art 

Geometry Makes Me Happy

The Greek Vase; Art of the Storyteller  by John H. Oakley

Ileana Sonnabend; Ambassador for the New  by Ann Temkin

Kongo Across the Waters,  edited by Susan Cooksey, et al.

Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer; A Landscape Critic in the Gilded Age  by Judith K. Major

On & By Luc Tuymans

Silla; Korea’s Golden Kingdom, exhibit catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Architecture / Landscape Design 

The American Vitruvius; An Architects’ Handbook of Urban Design  by Werner Hegemann

Arthur Erickson; An Architect’s Life  by David Stouck

The American West in Bronze, exhibit catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Architects from A to Z  by Paul Cattermole

Central Park NYC; An Architectural View  by Andrew Zega

Chateau Country; Du Pont Estates in the Brandywine Valley  by Daniel DeKalb Miller

The Chesapeake House: Architectural Investigation by Colonial Williamsburg

The Conservation Movement: A History of Architectural Preservation, Antiwquity to Modernity  by Miles Glendinning

400 Fifth Avenue: A New Gwathmey Siegel Landmark

Le Corbusier; An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, exhibit catalog from the Museum of Modern Art

100 Years of Architectural Drawing: 1900 – 2000  by Neil Bingham 

Visions of Seaside: Foundation / Evolution / Imagination  by Dhiru A. Thadani

Yue Minjun: L’Ombre du Fou Rire 

Photography

Brassai: Paris by Night

The Complete Guide to Photographic Composition by Tony Worobiec

The Traveling Photographer; A Guide to Great Travel Photography  by Sandra Petrowitz

Understanding a Photograph  by John Berger

 

Design / Interior Decoration / Graphics / Fashion

Alexander McQueen; Working Process, photography by Nick Waplington

Co-mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps  by Art Spiegelman

David Webb; The Quintessential American Jeweler  by Ruth Peltason

Europe: Rising Fashion Designers 2  by Patrick Gottelier

The Fashion Design Reference + Specification Book  by Jay Calderin

The Inspired Home; Interiors of Deep Beauty  by Karen Lehrman Bloch 

William Hodgins Interiors  by Stephen M. Salny 

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to 

Flower Garlands & Circles  by Fiona Eaton

The Graphic Designer’s Business Survival Guide  by Lawrence J. Daniels

Image Transfer on Clay; Screen, Relief, Decal & Monoprint Techniques  by Paul  Andrew Wandless

The Knitted Alphabet; How to Knit Letters from A to Z  by Kate Haxell

Leaded Glass: Projects & Techniques  by Julia Rodriguez

Mastering Tatting: Advanced Designs using Basic Techniques  by Lindsay Rogers

Paper and Ink Workshop; Printmaking Techniques Using a Variety of Methods and Materials  by John Foster

Stuffed Animals; From Concept to Construction  by Abigail Patner Glassenberg

Tie-Dye; Dye It, Wear It, Share It  by Shabd Simon-Alexander

When Bad Things Happen to Good Knitters  by Marion Edmonds 

Antiques / Collectibles

Antique Photographica: The Collector’s Vision  ed. by Bryan and Paige Ginns

Early American Silver in the Metropolitan Museum of Art  by Beth Carver Wees

The Instant Coin Collector, 2^nd edition  by Arlyn G. Sieber

New art books for a snowy winter's day

If you can't make it to Central Library during bad weather, don't forget you can put a "hold" on any of these books (except the Reference ones) and have it sent to your nearest SLPL branch.

 

Reference

 

The Official M. I. Hummel Price Guide, 2^nd edition  

Oriental Rugs; An Illustrated Lexicon of Motifs, Materials, and Origins  by Peter F. Stone

 

Art History / Art Theory 

Anselm Kiefer: Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom 

Art and Appetite; American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine, exhibit catalog from the Art Institute of Chicago 

Jennifer Bartlett; History of the Universe, exhibit catalog from the Parish Art Museum 

Lucian Freud Portraits  by Sarah Howgate 

Magritte; The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938, exhibit catalog from the Museum of Modern Art, New York 

Mexico and American Modernism  by Ellen G. Landau 

Miles Davis: The Collected Artwork 

Rogier van der Weyden  by Stephan Kemperdick 

Roy Lichtenstein in his Studio  by Laurie Lambrecht 

Russia’s Treasures; The Soviet Trade in Nationalized Art, 1917-1938 

The Unfinished Painting  by Nico van Hout 

Van Gogh at Work, exhibit catalog of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam 

Van Gogh, Dalí, and Beyond; The World Reimagined, exhibit catalog from the Museum of Modern Art, New York

 

Architecture / Landscape Design 

Christmas at Historic Houses  by Patricia Hart McMillan 

Filippo Brunelleschi  by Eugenio Battisti 

Stained Glass of Canterbury Cathedral  by M. A. Michael

 

Photography                                                       

Capturing the Light: The Birth of Photography, A True Story of Genius and Rivalry  by Roger Watson and Helen Rappaport 

Dorothea Lange; Grab a Hunk of Lightning  by Elizabeth Partridge 

The Great LIFE Photographers

 

Design / Interior Decoration / Graphics / Fashion 

Gary Baseman: The Door is Always Open 

Europe: Rising Fashion Designers  by Patrick Gottelier 

Fashion: The Whole Story  

Pretty in Ink; North American Women Cartoonists, 1896-2013  by Trina Robbins 

Valentino; Objects of Couture

 

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to 

Making Art a Practice; 30 Ways to Paint a Pipe {How to be the Artist you Are}  by Cat Bennett 

Art/Work: Everything you need to know (and do) as you pursue your Art Career  by Heather Darcy Bhandari 

500 Prints on Clay, Paul Andrew Wandless, Juror 

Playing with Stencils  by Amy Rice 

Stitch Zakka  by Gailen Runge

 

Antiques / Collectibles 

American Gold and Platinum Eagles; A Guide to the U. S. Bullion Coin Programs  by Edmund C. Moy 

Guide Book of Civil War Tokens  by Q. David Bowers 

The Official M. I. Hummel Price Guide, 2^nd edition

Antiques / Collectibles Periodicals currently received in the Fine Arts Room

This is a list of the antiques and collectibles periodicals that are available for perusal in the Fine Arts Room.  Except as noted, these are only kept for a period of several months.  In separate posts, architecture/interior design titles and general arts periodicals are listed.

Antique Week

Antique Trader

Art & Antiques (Bound into annual volumes and kept indefinitely)

Art + Auction (Bound into annual volumes and kept indefinitely)

Coin World

Coins

Linn’s Stamp News

The Magazine Antiques (Bound into annual volumes and kept indefinitely)

Mekeel’s and Stamp News

Treasures; Antique to Modern Collectibles

 

Architecture / Landscape Design / Interior Design Periodicals currently received in the Fine Arts Room

This is a list of the Architecture, Landscape, and Interior Design periodicals that are available for perusal in the Fine Arts Room.  Some of them, the more serious, long-running titles, are eventually bound into annual volumes and kept indefinitely.  Others are only kept for a period of months or a year or two.  In separate posts, general arts and antiques/collectibles titles are listed.

A + U (Architecture + Urbanism)

Abitare

Architect (Journal of the American Institute of Architects)

Architectural Digest

Architectural Record

Architectural Review

Arts & Crafts Homes

Atomic Ranch

Azure

Dwell

El Croquis

Green Source

House Beautiful

Interior Design

Japan Architect

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

Landscape Architecture

Metropolis

Old-House Interiors

Old House Journal

Preservation

Victorian Homes

World of Interiors

Art / Graphics / Decorative Art Periodicals currently received in the Fine Arts Room

This is a list of the general art, graphics, and decorative arts periodicals that are available for perusal in the Fine Arts Room.  Some of them, the more serious, long-running titles, are eventually bound into annual volumes and kept indefinitely.  Others are only kept for a period of months or a year or two.  In separate posts, architecture/interior design titles and antiques/collectibles titles are listed.

African Arts

American Art (Journal of the Smithsonian American Art Museum)

American Craft

American Indian Art Magazine

Aperture

Apollo

Archives of American Art Journal

Art Bulletin

Art in America

Art Journal

Art Newspaper

ARTFORUM

Artist

ARTNews

Artist’s Magazine

Burlington Magazine

Ceramics Monthly

Communication Arts

Flash Art

How

International Review of African American Art

Journal of the Print World

MUSE (Journal of the Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia)

Museum Magazine

Museum International

Neues Glas / New Glasls

Orientations

Ornament

Print

Professional Artist

Sculpture Review

Shuttle, Spindle, and Dyepot

Southwest Art

Stained Glass

Studio Potter

Wallpaper

Women’s Art Journal

New arts books for a winter's day

These have arrived since New Year's; if you can make it to Central Library, come on down!  If you can't, just request the circulating titles be sent to your home branch.

Reference

 

American Art Directory, 2014 

The Architecture of  Maritz & Young; Exceptional Historic Homes of St. Louis  by Kevin Amsler 

Graphic Design Annual, 2013 

Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701—1800, 6^th edition

 

Art History / Art Theory 

Arts and Crafts Book Covers  by Malcolm Haslam 

The Arts & Crafts of  Newcomb Pottery  by David H. Conradsen 

Bronze, exhibit catalog from the Royal Academy of Arts, London 

Cai Guo-Qiang; Ladder to the Sky, exhibit catalog from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 

Hanging Man; The Arrest of Ai Weiwei  by Barnaby Martin 

Hans Hofmann; Magnum Opus, exhibit catalog from the Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern 

Hans Richter; Encounters, exhibit catalog from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art 

Meret Oppenheim Retrospective, exhibit catalog from Kunstforum Vienna 

Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 1910-1940  by Adrian Locke 

Robert Motherwell; Early Collages, exhibit catalog from the Guggenheim Museum 

Veronese; The Wedding at Cana  by Marco Carminati

 

Architecture / Landscape Design 

 

A. Quincy Jones: Building for Better Living, edited by Brook Hodge 

Architecture of Barry Byrne; Taking the Prairie School to Europe  by Vincent L. Michael

How Architecture Works; A Humanist’s Toolkit  by Witold Rybczynski

 

Design / Interior Decoration / Graphics / Fashion 

Art Journal Freedom; How to Journal Creatively with Color & Composition  by Dina Wakley 

Becoming a Successful Illustrator  by Derek Brazell 

Mastering Calligraphy; The Complete Guide to Hand Lettering  by Gaye Godfrey-Nicholls 

Superheroes! Capes, Cowls, and the Creation of Comic Book Culture  by Laurence Maslon

 

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to 

A – Z of Botanical Flowers in Watercolor  by Michael Lakin 

Basketwork; 25 Practical Basket-making Projects  by Polly Pollock 

 

Capture the Magic; Train your Eye, Improve Your Photographic Composition  by Jack Dykinga

Embroideries from an English Garden  by Carol Andrews 

Journal It! Perspectives in Creative Journaling  by Jenny Doh 

Strokes of Genius 5; The Best of Drawing