More wonderful books for you to enjoy!

These great books have come in recently and are ready for checking out/requesting:

Art History / Art Theory

Andy Warhol:  The Complete Commissioned Posters  by Paul Marechal

The Afterlife of Piet Mondrian  by Nancy J. Troy

A Brush with the Real; Figurative Painting Today  by Marc Valli

Kurt Schwitters:  Space, Image, Exile  by Megan R. Luke

Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still-Life Tradition  by Michael Petry

Rene Lalique; Enchanted by Glass  by Kelley Elliott

Rome, The Golden Centuries

Architecture / Landscape Design

150 Best Sustainable House Ideas  by Francesc Zamora Mola

Allied Works Architecture:  Clyfford Still Museum

The Arts and Crafts Garden  by Sarah Rutherford

Glasshouses  by Fiona Grant

Louise Blanchard Bethune; America’s First Female Professional Architect  by Johanna Hays

New Brazilian House  by Dominic Bradbury

Design / Interior Decoration / Graphics / Fashion

Art/Fashion in the 21^st Century  by Mitchell Oakley Smith

Cutting-Edge Fashion Illustration  by Erica Sharp

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to

How to Make 100 Ribbon Embellishments  by Elaine Schmidt

Japanese Paper Crafting  by Michael G. Lafosse

1000 Beads, Kristina Logan, Juror

Ultimate Book of Decorative Knots  by Lindsey Philpott

Antiques / Collectibles

Estate Jewelry, 1760 to 1960  by Diana Sanders Cinamon

Mantiques; A Manly Guide to Cool Stuff  by Eric Bradley

Mother-of-Pearl Antiques and Collectibles  by Michael Meyer

Official Blackbook Price Guide to United States Postage Stamps, 2015 ed.

Picker’s Bible: How to Pick Antiques Like the Pros  by Joe Willard

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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