Topics

New Art Books & Videos

Ancient Art

Art & Artists in SC

Art & Artists of Mexico

Art & History of Comics

Black Mountain College

The Business of Art

Ceramics

Contemporary Art

Dada & Surrealism

Digital Photography & Imaging

German Expressionism

Graphic Design

Fiber & Textile Art

French Impressionism

Harlem Renaissance

Islamic Art

Van Gogh

• Australian Aboriginal Paintings, Jennifer Isaacs.  New Holland.  759.994 ISAACS
   
• Basquait, Jean Michel Basquait.  Merrell.  759.13 BASQUAIT
   
• Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression, Robert Atkins.  New Press.  700.1 CENSORING
   
• Constable: The Great Landscapes, Sarah Cove. Tate.  759.2 CONSTABLE
   
• Design Secrets: Furniture: 50 Real-Life Projects Uncovered, Laurel Saville.  Rockport Publishers.  749.32 SAVILLE
   
• Dot, Dot, Dash: Designer Toys, Action Figures and Character Art, Robert Klanten.  Die Gestalten Verlag.  745.592 DOT
   
• The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984, Marvin J. Taylor.  Princeton University Press.  709.747 DOWNTOWN  (Available at the Middle Tyger library)
   
• Elizabeth Peyton, Elizabeth Peyton. Rizzoli.  759.13 PEYTON
   
• The End is Near: Visions of Apocalypse, Millennium and Utopia, Roger Manley.  Dilettante Press.  704.9482 END
   
• Franz Marc: The Retrospective, Franz Marc.  Prestel.  709.43 MARC
   
• Goya's Last Works, Jonathan Brown.  Frick Collection.  760.092 BROWN
   
• Indian Sculpture, Grace Morley.  Roli.  732.44 MORLEY 
   
• In the Studio: Visits with Contemporary Cartoonists, Todd Hignite.  Yale University Press.  741.59730922 HIGNITE
   
• I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger, Frank Wynne.  Bloomsbury.  759.9492 WYNNE
   
• James Rosenquist: A Retrospective, Walter Hopps.  Guggenheim Museum Publications.  759.13 HOPPS
   
• Max Ernst: Life and Work: An Autobiographical Collage, Max Ernst.  Thames & Hudson.  759.3 ERNST
   
• Maya Lin: Systematic Lanscapes, Maya Ying Lin. Henry Art Gallery, U. of Washington.   709.2 LIN
   
• Off the Wall: A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg, Calvin Tomkins.  Picador.  B RAUSCHENBERG
   
• Pop Surrealism: The Rise of Underground Art, Robert Williams.  Ignition Pub./Last Gasp.  709.04063 POP
   
• The Private Lives of the Impressionists, Sue Roe.  HarperCollins Publishers.  759.409 ROE
   
• Redgrooms, Arthur C. Danto.  Rizzoli.  769.92 DANTO
   
• Rembrandt as Printmaker, Martin Royalton-Kisch.  Hayward Gallery.  769.92 ROYALTON
   
• Ron Mueck, Robert Rosenblum.  Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain.  730.92 MUECK
   
• The Surrealist Picasso, Mark Hewitt.  Fondation Beyeler.  709.2 PICASSO
   
• Through the Flower: My Struggle as a Woman Artist, Judy Chicago.  Author's Choice Press.  709.2 CHICAGO
   
• Water-Based Screenprinting Today: From Hands-on Techniques to Digital Technology, Roni Henning.  Watson-Guptill Publications.  764.8 HENNING

Events & Exhibits

...is SCPL's annual family reading festival. Each year on the first Saturday in March, the Headquarters Library celebrates the magic of reading, books, and libraries.  There are activities for all ages, and all are completely free of charge!

Caves: A Fragile Wilderness
November 18, 2006-January 11, 2007
Headquarters Library.
An exhibit form the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.  Color photographs of caves from
around the world, taken by members
of the National Speleological Society.

Film Fanatics
(at the Headquarters Library)
All movies are viewed at 7:00 pm in
the Irwin Conference Room.  See
events calendar or call the
Audio/Visual Desk at 596-3502
 for more information.

Scene Examiners
(at the Westside Library)
  Join us for our monthly film discussion. Begins at 12:30--
feel free to bring your lunch!
See events calendar or call the
Westside Library at
574-6815 for more information.

See Events at All Locations
 

Art & History of Comics

Find It!

• 100 Years of American Newspaper Comics: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, Maurice Horn.  Gramercy Books.  741.5973 ONE
   
• Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium, Jeet Heer.  University Press of Mississippi.  741.509 ARGUING
   
• Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969, Dan Nadel.  Abrams.  741.5 ART
   
• Black Images in the Comics: A Visual History, Fredrik Strömberg.  Fantagraphics.  741.5 STROMBERG
   
• The Classic Era of American Comics, Nicky Wright.  Contemporary Books.  741.5 WRIGHT
   
• Comic Book Artist Collection: Celebrating the Lives and Work of the Greatest Cartoonists, Writers, and Editors, Jon B. Cooke.  TwoMorrows Pub.  741.5092 COMIC
   
• Comic Wars: How Two Tycoons Battled over the Marvel Comics Empire --and Both Lost, Dan Raviv.  Broadway Books.  338.7617415 RAVIV
   
• Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels: A History of Comic Art, Roger Sabin.  Phaidon.  741.509 SABIN
   
• The Education of a Comics Artist: Visual Narrative in Cartoons, Graphic Novels, and Beyond, Michael Dooley.  Allworth Press.  741.5 EDUCATION
   
• Four Generations of Cartoonists, Gary Groth.  Fantagraphics.  741.5 FOUR
   
• In the Studio: Visits with Contemporary Cartoonists, Todd Hignite.  Yale University Press.  741.59730922 HIGNITE     (NEW BOOK!)
   
• Manga: Masters of the Art, Timothy Lehman.  Collins Design.  741.55952 LEHMAN
   
• Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics, Paul Gravett.  Laurence King.  741.5925 GRAVETT
   
• Masters of the Comic Book Universe Revealed, Arie Kaplan.  Chicago Review Press. 741.50922 KAPLAN
   
• Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book, Gerard Jones.   Basic Books.  741.5 JONES   (Available at the Westside Library)
   
• Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology are Revolutionizing an Art Form, Scott McCloud.  Perennial.  741.5 MCCLOUD
   
• Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee and the American Comic Book Revolution, Ronin Ro.  Bloomsbury.  741.5 RO
   
• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, Scott McCloud.  Kitchen Sink Press.  741.5 MCCLOUD
   
• The Writers (The Comics Journal Library), Tom Spurgeon.  Fantagraphics.  741.59730922 WRITERS

Locating Items
(Headquarters Library) 

 New art books:
main floor, middle

 Other art books:
upper floor, in the back

 Videos & DVDs:
main floor, on the right

 Art Magazines:
main floor, in the back

All branch libraries have art
books, too.  If you have trouble finding an item, ask a staff
member for help—that’s what
we’re here for!



Don’t Have a
Library card?
Here’s how to get one.



Putting a Book
on Hold
 If the item you want has been checked out, you can put it on
hold.  We’ll put it aside for you
when it’s returned, and give
you a call.  You can put it on
hold yourself through
the library’s online catalog,
or you can call or come by and
we can do it for you. 



Getting &
Returning Books
  Don’t want to come downtown?  Contact the library branch of
your choice and have them send the item you’d like to any of our other 9 locations.  You can pick
it up (and return it) at any Spartanburg County
Public Library!

Art Online

Check out the Library's
online directory of great
art websites!