Topics

New Art Books & Videos

Art & Artists in
South Carolina

Black Mountain College

The Business of Art

Ceramics

Contemporary Art  

Dada & Surrealism

Digital Photography
& Imaging

Fiber & Textile Art

French Impressionism

The Harlem Renaissance

Islamic Art

Outsider & Folk Art

Printmaking

Van Gogh

• The 100 Best Art Towns in America: A Guide to Galleries, Museums,
  Festivals, Lodging & Dining, John Villani.  Countryman Press.  700.973 VILLANI
   
• Amalia Amaki: Boxes, Buttons, and the Blues, Amalia Amaki. 
  National Museum of Women in the Arts.  709.2 AMAKI
   
• Art Law Conversations: A Surprisingly Readable Guide for Visual Artists, Elizabeth T. Russell.  Ruly Press.  702 RUSSELL
   
• The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946, Delphine Hirasuna.  Ten Speed Press.  704.0869 HIRASUNA 
   
• David: Five Hundred Years, Antonio Paolucci.  Sterling.  735.21 DAVID
   
• Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun: The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution, Gita May.  Yale University Press.  749.4 MAY
   
• Exit Utopia: Architectural Provocations 1956-1976, Martin van Schaik. 
  Prestel.  724.6 EXIT
   
• Food Design.  teNeues.  745.2 FOOD
   
• Grant Wood's Studio: Birthplace of American Gothic, edited by Jane C. Milosch.  Cedar Rapids Museum of Art.  759.13 GRANT
   
• Harry Benson's America, Harry Benson.  Harry N. Abrams.  779.9973 BENSON
   
• History of Beauty, Umberto Eco.  Rizzoli.  111.85 HISTORY
   
• Home: Native People in the Southwest, Ann E. Marshall.  Heard Museum. 
  745.08997 HOME
   
• J. M. W. Turner, Peter Ackroyd.  Nan A. Talese.  B TURNER, J. M. W.
   
• The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism, Ross King.  Walker and Company.  759.409 KING
   
• Masterpieces of Illumination: The World's Most Famous Illuminated
  Manuscripts, 400-1600, Ingo F. Walther.  Taschen.  745.6709 WALTHER
   
• Math and the Mona Lisa: The Art and Science of Leonardo Da Vinci, Bülent Atalay.  Smithsonian Books.  759.5 ATALAY
   
• Michelangelo Drawings: Closer to the Master, Hugo Chapman.  Yale University Press.  743.4 CHAPMAN
   
• Pattern + Palette Sourcebook: A Complete Guide to Choosing the Perfect Color and Pattern in Design, Anvil Design.  Rockport Publishers.  701.85 PATTERN
   
• PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives, Frank Warren.  ReganBooks.  700.103 WARREN
   
• reGeneration: 50 photographers of tomorrow, 2005-2025, William A. Ewing, et al.  Aperture.  779.09494 EWING
   
• Still Looking: Essays on American Art, John Updike.  Knopf.  709.73 UPDIKE
   
• Talking with the Turners: Conversations with Southern Folk Potters
  (includes audio CD), Charles R. Mack.  University of South Carolina Press & McKissick Museum.  738.0922 TALKING

Events & Exhibits

PHOTOSEVEN 2006
April 14-May 17, 2006
Annual Photography Exhibit of Student Work from Carver Junior High School

Magic Web: The Tropical Forest of Barro Colorado Island
40 large format color photographs with text in English and Spanish
May 27- July 23

Film Fanatics
(at the Headquarters Library)
All movies are viewed at 7:00 pm in the Irwin Conference Room.  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!
Call the Westside Library at
574-6815 for more information.

See Events at All Locations

Contemporary Art

Find It!

• The Art of George Rodrique.  759.13 RODRIQUE
   

• Art Today, Edward Lucie-Smith.  709.04 LUCIE-SMITH
   

• Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You, Ann Goldstein.  700.92 KRUGER
   

• Chuck Close: Close-Up, directed by David Irving.  VIDEO 759.13 CHUCK
   

• Cindy Sherman: Retrospective.  779.092 SHERMAN
   

• Cy Twombly: A Retrospective, Kirk Varnedoe.  709.2 VARNEDOE
   

• Dreamland, Todd Schoor.  759.13 SCHORR
   

• Encounters: New Art from Old, Richard Morphet.  709.04 MORPHET
   

• Internet Art, Rachel Greene.  776 GREENE
   

• Jasper Johns, Privileged Information, Jill Johnston.  B JOHNS, JASPER
   

• Jim Dine: Flowers and Plants, Marco Livingstone.  758.42 LIVINGSTONE
   

• Julie Speed: Paintings, Constructions, and Works on Paper, Julie Speed. 709.2 SPEED
   

• Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective, exhibition curator Elizabeth A. T. Smith. 
  709.2 BONTECOU
   

• Louise Bourgeois, Robert Storr.  730.92 STORR
   

• Otherworlds: The Art of Nancy Spero & Kiki Smith.  709.73 OTHERWORLDS
   

• pressPlay: Contemporary Artists in Conversation.  Phaidon.  709.22 PRESSPLAY  (NEW BOOK!)
   

• Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy, Working with Time, Mediopolis Film.  DVD/VIDEO 702.8 RIVERS
   

• The Saddest Place on Earth: The Art of Camille Rose Garcia. 
  Last Gasp.  759.13 GARCIA  (NEW BOOK!)
   

• Shag: The Art of Josh Agle, Shag.  759.13 SHAG  (NEW BOOK!)
   

• Supernova: Art of the 1990’s from the Logan Collection, Madeliene Grynsztein.  709.04 SUPERNOVA
   

• We Flew Over the Bridge: The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold. 
  709.2 RINGGOLD

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!