New Books pouring in!

More purchases from our new fiscal year funds are arriving almost every day.  To check any of these out, just request them online or ask a library staffer to do it, then pick them up at the branch of your choice.

Art History / Design / Craft

Collecting Modern:  Design at the Philadelphia Museum of Art since 1876

Color  Moves:  Art & Fashion by Sonia Delaunay, exhibition catalog of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

Complete Colored Pencil Book  by Bernard Poulin

de Kooning:  A Retrospective, exhibition catalog from the Museum of Modern Art

Exhibiting Blackness; African Americans and the American Art Museum  by Bridget R. Cooks

The Glass Artist’s Studio Handbook  by Cecilia Cohen

Green Graphics  by Vicky Eckert

Masters:  Book Arts; Major Works by Leading Artists  edited by Eileen Wallace

My Faraway One:  Selected Letters of George O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz  edited by Sarah Greenough

National Museum of China

Romare Bearden:  Southern Recollections 

September:  A History Painting by Gerhard Richter  by Robert Storr

Symbols of Power in Art  by Paola Rapelli

Architecture

Grand Obsessions:  The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin  by Alasdair McGregor

Henry Ives Cobb’s Chicago; Architecture, Institutions, and the Making of a Modern Metropolis  by Edward W. Wolner

Inigo Jones: The Architect of Kings  by Vaughan Hart

Marion Mahony Reconsidered  edited by David Van Zanten

Photography

Man Ray in Paris  by Erin C. Garcia

Music

Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg 

Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings  by Brian Harker

The Record Players:  DJ Revolutionaries  by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton

The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68  by Keith Waters

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Changed for Good; A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical  by Stacy Wolf

Desilu:  The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz  (Expanded edition)  by Coyne Steven Sanders

Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir  by Patrick Keating

Hollywood’s African American Films; The Transition to Sound  by Ryan Jay Friedman

The Official Dick Van Dyke Show Book (Revised & Updated edition)  by Vince Waldron

The Rise of the American Circus, 1716-1899  by S. L. Kotar

Robert Altman; Critical Essays  edited by Rick Armstrong

Second Skin:  Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface  by Anne Anlin Cheng

Antiques / Collectibles

Postwar Pop  by Donald-Brian Johnson

New Books are Arriving Again

The books ordered in the new fiscal year are starting to come in.  This trickle will become a deluge in a few weeks!  As before, to check any of them out, just request them through our catalog or ask a staff member, and you can pick them up at the branch of your choice.

Art History / Design / Craft

Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters:  The Cone Sisters of Baltimore  by Karen Levitov

Color Creates Light:  Studies with Hans Hoffman  by Tina Dickey

Genius Isolated:  The Life and Art of Alex Toth  by Dean Mullaney

Jim Nutt:  Coming into Character  by Lynne Warren

Of What One Cannot Speak:  Doris Salcedo’s Political Art  by Mieke Bal

Piecework Magazine Presents:  A Facsimile Edition of Weldon’s Practical Needlework

Architecture

Ai Weiwei:  Architecture  edited by Caroline Klein

Music

The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock ‘n’ Roll  by Preston Lauterbach

The History of Jazz, 2^nd edition  by Ted Gioia

Mozart and the Nazis:  How the Third Reich Abused a Cultural Icon  by Erik Levi

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Female Action Heroes:  A Guide to Women in Comics, Video Games, Film, and Television  by Gladys L. Knight

The Kid Stays in the Picture  by Robert Evans

Downloadable e-books from SLPL !

SLPL now offers loans of ebooks to our cardholders.

We support these ebook formats:

Kindle and Kindle for PC
Adobe EPUB
Adobe PDF
Open EPUB
Open PDF

So far, fiction titles make up the majority of our e-book titles.  But there are a few arts-related books becoming available.  Many deal with pop culture, such as biographies and memoirs of musicians such as Pat Benatar, Jay-Z, Ice-T, and Amy Winehouse, and books about popular television shows Glee and American Idol. 

Erik Larson's gripping The Devil in the White City is also available; somehow he manages to weave together the story of the architecture of the Chicago World's Fair and a serial killer into a fascinating tale. And a more recent title is Robert K. Wittman's Priceless:  How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures, recounting adventures of the FBI's Art Crime Team.

Just click on this link to get more information and get started:
http://getitnow.slpl.org/AAE39FCE-AFF4-4550-9580-05E49BDC9714/10/506/en/BrowseeBooks.htm

Download music -- it's free and legal!

Yes, using a service named Freegal (free + legal), St. Louis Public Library cardholders can download free music to their computer or mobile device for personal use.  Each week you can choose up to three songs from thousands of songs, over 100 genres of music, and more than 50 record labels. Sunday at midnight, your counter is set back to zero. Then you'll be able to download three more songs. 

Best of all, the songs never expire - no due dates.  Special software isn't needed to use the service, and there are no digital rights management restrictions.  Music is downloaded in an MP3 form that can be played, transferred or burned to a CD.

So, grab your valid St. Louis Public Library card and start Listening.  For more details, see our October newsletter: http://www.slpl.org/pdf/newsletters/cio201110.pdf

Last titles of our fiscal year

Ordering of new materials was halted on September 1, so new arrivals are becoming scarce.  However, a few have come in this month.  As always, they can be requested to be sent to any of our branches, where they can be checked out.  We will begin ordering again on October 1, so...Watch This Space.

Art History / Design / Craft

Art of the Middle East:  Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World and Iran  by Saeb Eigner

Folk Art from the American Museum in Britain  by Laura Beresford

How to Open & Operate a Financially Successful Interior Design Business  by Diane Leone

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Design

Accessible Architecture:  Construction and Design Manual

Music

Musorgsky:  His Life and Works  by David Brown

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Silent Visions:  Discovering Early Hollywood and New York Through the Films of Harold Lloyd  by John Bengtson

Antiques / Collectibles

The Book of Griswold & Wagner…revised and expanded 5^th edition with Price Guide  by David G. Smith and Chuck Wafford

New Books for Late Summer

We list these new books with heavy hearts, mourning the sudden loss of our colleague and friend Keith Zimmer.  If you would like to check out any of them, just put a Request on them and pick them up at any of our branches.

Art History / Design / Craft

Altered and Adorned:  Using Renaissance Prints in Daily Life  by Suzanne K. Schmidt

The Andy Goldsworthy Project (National Gallery of Art, Washington)  by Molly Donovan

Artists’ Magazines:  An Alternative Space for Art  by Gwen Allen

Contemporary Art in Asia: A Critical Reader 

Gabriel Metsu  by Adriaan E. Waiboer

Graphic Style:  From Victorian to New Century  by Steven Heller and Seymour Chwast

Lee Krasner:  A Biography  by Gail Levin

The Modern Eye:  Stieglitz, MoMA, and the Art of the Exhibition, 1925-1934  by Kristina Wilson

Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus,  exhibition catalog from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Secret History of the First U. S. Mint:  How Frank H. St3ewart Destroyed and then Saved a National Treasure  by Joel J. Orosz

Seductive Subversion:  Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968

The Steins Collect:  Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, exhibition catalog from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Walls that Speak:  The Murals of John Thomas Biggers  by Olive Jensen Thiesen

Wisdom Embodied:  Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Design

Rietveld’s Universe,  exhibition catalog from the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Photography

Annie Leibovitz at Work  by Annie Leibovitz

Photography Degree Zero:  Reflections on Roland Barthes’s “Camera Lucida”

Music

Arnold Schoenberg  by Bojan Bujic

The Ballad of Bob Dylan  by Daniel Mark Epstein

Women of Influence in Contemporary Music:  Nine American Composers  edited by Michael K. Slayton

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

The Last Silent Picture Show:  Silent Films on American Screens in the 1930s  by William M. Drew

Soul Searching:  Black-Themed Cinema from the March on Washington to the Rise of Blaxploitation  by Christopher Sieving

More great books for a hot summer

Art History / Design / Craft

Art and Nature:  Three centuries of Natural History Art from Around the World  by Judith Magee

Contemporary Chinese Art:  Primary Documents  (anthology from the Museum of Modern Art)

How to Read Greek Vases  (guide from the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Picasso by Picasso:  His First Museum Exhibition, 1932  by Tobia Bezzola

Set in Style:  The Jewelry of Van Cliff & Arpels, exhibition catalog from the Cooper-Hewitt museum

Thomas Kinkade:  The Artist in the Mall  edited by Alexis L. Boylan

The Woodcut Artist’s Handbook:  Techniques and Tools for Relief Printmaking, Second Edition  by George A Walker.

Women Building History:  Public Art at the 1893 Columbian Exposition  by Wanda M. Corn

Architecture / Planning / Landscape Design

Allied Works  Architecture  by Brad Cloepfil

Building-in-Time:  From Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion  by Marvin Trachtenberg

Gertrude Jekyll and the Country House Garden  by Judith B. Tankard

Giuseppe Vasi’s Rome:  Lasting Impressions from the Age of the Grand Tour  by James T. Tice

Global Citizen:  The Architecture of Moshe Safdie  by Donald Albrecht

Lost Victorian Britain:  How the Twentieth Century Destroyed the Nineteenth Century’s Architectural Masterpieces  by Gavin Stamp

Rafael Moneo:  Remarks on 21 Works

SANAA Sejima Nishizawa:  New Museum, New York  (Museum Building series)

Photography

Glass House  by James Welling

Music

La Bohème  (Overture Opera Guides)

Danny Elfman’s Batman:  A Film Score Guide  by Janet K. Halfyard

Don Giovanni (Overture Opera Guides)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s The Adventures of Robin Hood:  A  Film Score Guide  by Ben Winters

Glorious Days and Nights:  A Jazz Memoir  photos by Herb Snitzer

The Hollywood Film Music Reader  edited by Mervyn Cooke

Idomeneo (Overture Opera Guides)

Nino Rota:  Music, Film and Feeling  by Richard Dyer

Origins and Development of Musical Instruments  by Jeremy Montagu

Movies / Theater / Dance / TV

Boris Karloff:  More than a Monster.  The Authorised Biography  by Stephen Jacobs

The Dance Claimed Me:  A Biography of Pearl Primus  by Peggy & Murray Schwartz

Glamour in a Golden Age:  Movie Stars of the 1930s  edited by Adrienne L. McLean

Houdini:  Art and Magic  by Brooke Kamin Rapaport

Indie:  An American Film Culture  by Michael Z. Newman

Infamous Players:  A Tale of Movies, The Mob (and Sex)  by Peter Bart

Jane Campion:  Authorship and Personal Cinema  by Alistair Fox

Siren City:  Sound and Source Music in Classic American Noir  by Robert Miklitsch

Weimar Cinema, 1919 – 1933:  Daydreams and Nightmares  (Museum of Modern Art exhibition catalog)

Theatre  by David Mamet