More beautiful new books in the Visual Arts

These newly-published titles have just arrived.  Remember you can request that they be sent to an SLPL branch if you can't make it here.

Reference

Official Blackbook Price Guide to United States Coins, 2015

Official Blackbook Price Guide to United States Paper Money, 2015

Art History / Art Theory

Ai Wei Wei: Spatial Matters; Art, Architecture and Activism

Andrew Wyeth; Looking Out, Looking In  by Nancy K. Anderson

Art and the Second World War  by Monica Bohm-Duchen

Art Deco; Shaping Art & Culture, 1920-1945  by Kendall H. Brown

Frida & Diego; Passion, Politics and Painting, exhibit catalog of the Art Gallery of Ontario/High Museum

Reading Andy Warhol, exhibit catalog of the Museum Brandhorst

Vasily Kandinsky; From Blaue Reiter to the Bauhaus, 1910 – 1925, exhibit catalog of the Neue Galerie, New York

Visions from the Forests; The Art of Liberia and Sierra Leone, exhibit catalog of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Whitney Biennial, 2014

Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties, exhibit catalog of the Brooklyn Museum

Photography

Composition: From Snapshots to Great Shots , 2^nd ed., by Laurie Excell

David Busch’s Nikon D5300: Guide to Digital SLR Photography

Design / Interior Decoration / Graphics / Fashion

Amish Quilts  by Janneken Smucker

Charles James: Beyond Fashion, exhibit catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Inspired Home: Nests of Creatives  by Kim Ficaro

SPF Lookbook: Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week New York, Spring 2014 Collections

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to

How to be an Illustrator, by Darrel Rees

How to Draw Fantasy Worlds  by Steve Beaumont

Lace, Ribbons and Bows  by Ann Brownfield

101 Ways to Stitch/Craft/Create for All Occasions

The Techniques and Art of Weaving; A Basic Guide  by Marylene Brahic

Water-based Texturing  by Tucker Stouch

Summer begins today... new, hot-off-the-press arts books to keep you cool

Reference

Art Sales Index, 2014

Handbook of United States Coins, 2015

Staffordshire Figures 1780-1840; Manufacturers, Pastimes, & Work, Vol 1.  By Myrna Schkolne

Art History / Art Theory

Anders Zorn; A European Artist Seduces America, exhibit catalog of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Artists for Artists; Fifty Years of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts

Clyfford Stil; The Artist’s Museum  by Dean Sobel

Looking East; Western Artists and the Allure of Japan  by Helen Burnham

Pre-Islamic Carpets and Textiles from Eastern Lands  by Friedrich Spuhler

Richard Serra Early Work

Shepard Fairey Inc.; Artist, Professional, Vandal  by G. James Daichendt

Wyeth: Christina’s World  by Laura Hoptman

Architecture / Landscape Design

Bok Tower Gardens; America’s Taj Mahal  by Kenneth Triester

Prefab-ulous World; Energy-Efficient and Sustainable Homes Around the Globe   by Sheri Koones

Skyscraper Facades of the Gilded Age; Fifty-One Extravagant Designs, 1875-1910  by Joseph J. Korom, Jr.

Photography

Another London; International Photographers Capture City Life 1930-1980, exhibit catalog of Tate Britain

How Photographs are Sold  by Alain Briot

The Ilex Introduction to Photography  by Haje Jan Kamps

Reading Photographs; An Introduction  by Ricad Salkeld

Unfamiliar Streets; The Photographs of Richard Avedon, Charles Moore, Martha Rosler, and Philip-Lorca DiCorcia  by Katherine A. Bussard.

Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits

Design / Interior Decoration / Graphics / Fashion

How to Look / Art Comics  by Ad Reinhardt

The Language of Fashion Design  by Laura Volpintesta

The Softer Side of R. Crumb

Tihany; Iconic Hotel and Restaurant Interiors  by Adam Tihany

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to

American Bald Eagles in Intarsia: Patriotic  by Ralph S. Buckland

Drawing and Painting Insects  by Andrew Tyzack

Antiques / Collectibles

Warman’s Depression Glass Identification and Price Guide, 6^th edition  by Ellen T. Schroy

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Author to discuss renowned interior designer George Stacey on June 4

June 4, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.
Central’s Auditorium
1301 Olive St.

Please join us as Maureen Footer discusses and signs her recently published book, George Stacey and the Creation of American Chic.
This is the first book to chronicle the life, far reaching aesthetic legacy, and historical context of the groundbreaking American designer, George Stacey.  Stacey's ground-breaking interior designs for the smart sets in New York and Hollywood mixed old, new, luxury, and plain. 

Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Left Bank Books.

Latest, greatest acquisitions!

Take advantage of a beautiful May day to come on down and see these beautiful books.  Or, order them sent to your own branch, of course....

Reference

The Image of the Black in Western Art, The Twentieth Century: The Impact of Africa, Vol. 4, Part 1.

Standard Catalog of World Paper Money; Modern Issues 1961-Present, 20^th edition

 

Art History / Art Theory

Black Panther; The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas  by Emory Douglas

The Chinese Art Book

Forged: Why Fakes are the Great Art of our Age  by Jonathon Keats

Gao Xingjian; Painter of the Soul  by Daniel Bergez

Imagining M.I.T.; Designing a Campus for the 21^st Century  by William J. Mitchell

Keith Haring  by Jeffrey Deitch

Miami Graffiti Art  by H. Love

Treasures of the Royal Courts; Tudors, Stuarts, the Russian Tsars, exhibit catalog of the Victoria and Albert Museum

 

Architecture / Landscape Design

Traditional Architecture; Timeless Building for the Twenty-First Century  by Alireza Sagharchi

Why Architects Still Draw  by Paolo Belardi

Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City  by Anthony Flint

 

Photography

Creative 52: Weekly Projects to Invigorate your Photography Portfolio  by Lindsay Adler

DIY Wedding Photo and Video  by Joanna Silber

The Edge of Vision; The Rise of Abstraction in Photography  by Lyle Rexer

Family in the Picture, 1958-2013  by Lee Friedlander

Fearless Photographer: Sports  by Michael Skepls

Mastering the Business of Photography  by Tony Luna

Our Beautiful, Fragile World  by Peter Essick

Robert Heinecken: Object Matter, exhibit catalog of the Museum of Modern Art

 

Design / Interior Decoration / Graphics / Fashion

The American Flag; Art, Design, Fashion  by Mary Emmerling

Furniture by Architects

John Van Hamersveld; Fifty Years of Graphic Design

Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists  by Hillary L. Chute

 

 

Exceptionally fine selection of new books

In the past few weeks, some truly wonderful books on the arts and crafts have come in.  Do take a look, come visit, and/or have them sent to your own branch for checkout.

Reference

Graphis Design Annual 2014

Graphis Photography Annual 2014

Warman’s  Antiques & Collectibles, 48^th edition, 2015 

Art History / Art Theory

Ana Mendieta Traces, exhibit catalog of the Hayward Gallery

Angel Without You  by Tracey Emin

Bound Unbound  by Lin Tianmiao

Francis Bacon; Five Decades, exhibit catalog of the Art Gallery of New South Wales

Frans Hals; Eye to Eye with Rembrandt, Rubens and Titian, exhibit catalog of the Frans Hals Museum

A Legacy of Armenian Treasures, exhibit catalog of the Manoogian Museum

MoMA Highlights; 350 Works from The Museum of Modern Art

Rauschenberg: Canyon  by Leah Dickerman 

Architecture / Landscape Design

Cass Gilbert’s West Virginia Capitol  by Ann Thomas Wilkins

Houses Without Names  by Thomas C. Hubka

Pedestrian Modern; Shopping and American Architecture, 1925-1956  by David Smiley

Preserving Historic Architecture; The Official Guidelines, issued by the U. S. Dept. of the Interior 

Photography

Brassai in America, 1957

Exposure; From Snapshots to Great Shots  by Jeff Revell

Giorgio Casali; Photographer/Domus 1951-1983

Night Photography; From Snapshots to Great Shots  by Gabriel Biderman

Sports Photography; From Snapshots to Great Shots  by Bill Frakes 

Design / Interior Decoration / Graphics / Fashion

The Art of Bulgari; La Dolce Vita and Beyond  by Martin Chapman

Kitchens; A Sunset Design Guide  by Karen Templer

Steampunk Jewelry  by Spurgeon Vaughn Ratcliffe 

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to

Best of Fons & Porter: Patriotic Quilts

Glass Art from the Kiln  by Rene Culler

Knitting with Icelandic Wool  by Vedis Jonsdaottir

Pencil Drawing Step by Step  by Cynthia Knox

Photo and Video Editing for Seniors

The Printmakers’ Bible  by Colin Gale 

Antiques / Collectibles

Beyond the Maker’s Mark; Paul de Lamerie Silver  by Ellenor Alcorn

The Borris Lace Collection  by Marie Laurie

 

 

Craft books for Easter and Spring

Although there are certainly not as many adult crafts books for this time of year as there are for the Fall and Winter holidays, Central Library does carry a few titles: 

Decorated eggs, by Ruby M. Brown

Easter : a spring celebration of traditional crafts and recipes, by Tessa Evelegh

Easter Knits, by Arne and Carlos

Eggs beautiful : how to make Ukrainian Easter eggs, by Johanna Luciow
Mary Engelbreit's spring craft book / illustrated by Mary Engelbreit ; written by Charlotte Lyons