Black History Month, 2015

This year we celebrate the centennial of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, the founding organization of Black History Month.   The display cart in the Fine Arts room will be stocked with books about African-American visual artists throughout the month.  These include painters, graphic artists, designers, photographers, and architects.  Come in and browse (and check out)!

Recent arrivals

Many beautiful and useful new titles -- this month has been especially strong in books on drawing and sketching: 

Drawing  &  Sketching

The Compendium of Fantasy Art Techniques  by Rob Alexander

The Complete Guide to Drawing Manga  by Marc Powell

Drawing Secrets Revealed: Basics; How to Draw Anything  by Sarah Parks

The Fundamentals of Drawing  by Jim Dowdalls

How to Draw Monsters  by Chad Scheres

Sketch! The Non-artist’s Guide to Inspiration, Technique and Drawinf Daily Life  by France Belleville-Van Stone

Sketching from the Imagination: Fantasy

  

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

Dear Nemesis: Nicole Eisenman 1993-2013, exhibit catalog of the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis

Gerhard Richter: Books

Goya; Order & Disorder, exhibit catalog of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Henry Taylor, exhibit catalog of the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Jeff Koons; Conversations with Norman Rosenthal

Nineteenth-Century Art; A Beginner’s Guide  by Laurie Schneider Adams

Pattern and Light: Aga Khan Museum

Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance  edited by Am Helene Hirschke

Architecture / Landscape Design

Hadid: Zaha Hadid Complete Works

Library Architecture + Design  by Manuela Roth

Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier, Architect of Tomorrow  by Anthony Flint

Design / Fashion / Interior Decoration / Graphics

Dorothy and Otis: Designing the American Dream  by Norman Hathaway

The Mind’s Eye; The Art of Omni

Peanuts Every Sunday, 1956-1960

Superman; the Silver Age Dailies, 1961-1963  by Jerry Siegel

Did you get a new camera?

In case you recently received a camera as a gift, or bought one yourself, this month we've gathered our most up-to-date books on the latest cameras and photography manuals in one place.  They are on our display cart next to the Fine Arts Reference Desk.  All are available for immediate check-out.

Happy 2015 to all!  Here is a list of our latest acquisitions.  If you can't make it downtown to see our beautiful building and room, as seen below, you can easily "place a hold" on any of the non-reference titles in this list and have them sent to your favorite SLPL branch.

Reference

American Art Directory, 69^th ed., 2015

Antique Trader Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide, 2015

Extraordinary British Transferware, 1780—1840  by Rosemary Halliday

Graphis Poster Annual, 2015

 Art History / Art Theory / Art World

Adam Silverman: Ceramics

The Front Room: Artists’ Projects at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2008-2013.

Rethinking Andrew Wyeth  edited by David Cateforis

33 Artists in 3 Acts  by Sarah Thornton

Yaka; Visions of Africa  by Arthur P. Bourgeois

Architecture / Landscape Design

Saint John’s Abbey Church; Marcel Breuer and the Creation of a Modern Sacred Space  by Victoria M. Young

Design / Fashion / Interior Decoration / Graphics

Arts & Crafts: Living with the Arts & Crafts Style  by Judith Miller

Hijacking the Runway; How Celebrities are Stealing the Spotlight from Fashion Designers  by Teri Agins

Foundations in Comic Book Art  by John Paul Lowe

Glittering World; Navajo Jewelry of the Yazzie Family, exhibit catalog of the National Museum of the American Indian

How to Create Your Own Gig Posters, Band T-Shirts, Album Covers, & Stickers  by Ruthann Godollei

Photography

Constructing Worlds; Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age, exhibit catalog of the Barbican Art Gallery

New Fashion Photography

The Street Photographer’s Manual  by David Gibson

Wildlife Photographer of the Year; 50 Years, edited by Rosamund Kidman Cox

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to

Easter Eggs; 40 Fabulouis Projects for the Whole Family  by Matthew Mead

The Encyclopedia of Drawing Techniques  by Hazel Harrison

Natural Glazes; Collecting and Making  by Miranda Forrest

Paper Quilling for the First Time  by Alli Bartkowski

Sixty Quick Luxury Knits…Venezia Collection from Cascade Yarns

The Venetian Glass Bead; 24 Colorful Jewelry Projects  by Kathy Fox

Antiques / Collectibles

100 Greatest U. S. Coins, 4^th edition  by Jeff Garrett

Dollhouses from the V & A Museum of Childhood  by Halina Pasierbska

Step Right Up! Classic American Target and Arcade Forms  by Richard Tucker

Weatherbird artwork celebrates SLPL's Sesquicentennial!

 Dan Martin, the Post-Dispatch's current Weatherbird artist, has created a special illustration for the library's 150th year anniversary.  We will be celebrating the founding of the first St. Louis Public School Library all during 2015.  Happy New Year!

Steedman Architectural Library materials on exhibit, now through February

Steedman Library books and other materials are not usually on view to the public, but from December, 2014 through May, 2015, you can see them in the eight display cases in Central's Great Hall.  View one of the elephant folio Piranesis, the collection's oldest book (1521),  a recent artist's book that recreates Palladio's Villa Rotonda, and much more.  Keep up with other Steedman developments on its own blog:
http://steedmanarchitecturallibrary.blogspot.com/

Latest arrivals

New arts books are coming in regularly now. Remember that if you can't make it downtown to Central Library, you can request that these titles (well, not the Reference works) be sent to your home branch for pickup.

Reference

Artist’s & Graphic Designer’s Market, 2015

Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601 – 1700, 6^th edition

Who’s Who in American Art, 35^th ed., 2015

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

Art in America, 1945-1970; Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art,    and Minimalism  edited by Jed Perl

The World is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cezanne, exhibit catalog of the Art Gallery of Hamilton

Architecture / Landscape Design

The English Country House Garden  by George Plumptre

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: Daring by Design  by Anne Hawley

Louis Kahn; House of the Nation

Saarinen Houses  by Jari Jetsonen

Design / Fashion / Interior Decoration / Graphics

Car Posters  by Emmanuel Lopez

Creating a Successful Fashion Collection  by Steven Faerm

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Rooms; Interiors and Decorative Arts  by Margo Stipe

Steampunk Graphics; the Art of Victorian Futurism  by Antoni Cadafalch

Photography

David Hume Kennerly On the iPhone: Secrets and Tips from a Pulitzer Prize winning  Photographer

Digital SLR Cameras & Photography for Dummies  by David D. Busch

Photographic Composition  by Albrecht Rissler

Scanning and Editing your Old Photos  by Heather Morris

She Who Tells A Story; Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World  by Kristin Gresh