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 Art Books  @ SCPL                      September-October 2006    

    Events & Exhibits       Find It       Art websites       New Topic: German Expressionism

Topics

 

New Art Books & Videos

 

Ancient Art

Art & Artists in SC

Black Mountain College

The Business of Art

Ceramics

Contemporary Art

Dada & Surrealism

Digital Photography & Imaging

German Expressionism

Fiber & Textile Art

French Impressionism

The Harlem Renaissance

Islamic Art

Van Gogh

   
  • An Inner Silence: The Portraits of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Cartier-Bresson.  Thames & Hudson.  779.2 CARTIER-BRESSON
     
  • Art School Confidential: A Screenplay, Daniel Clowes.  Fantagraphics Books.  791.4372 CLOWES
     
  • Buildings in Wood: The History and Traditions of Architecture's Oldest Building Material, Will Pryce.  Rizzoli.  721.0448 PRYCE
     
  • Buying Affordable Art, Hugh St. Clair.  Mitchell Beazley.  700.29 ST. CLAIR
     
  • Collage: The Making of Modern Art, Brandon Taylor.  Thames & Hudson.  702.812 TAYLOR
     
  • Comic Artist's Photo Reference: People and Poses, Buddy Scalera.  Impact Books.  741.5 SCALERA
     
  • Craft the Perfect Frame: Transform Plain Frames with Papers, Paints & Embellishments, Carin H. Atkins.  Creative Pub. International.  749.7 ATKINS
     
  • Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Vision of Reality, Ivo Kranzfelder.  Taschen.  759.13 KRANZFELDER
     
  • The Figure in Clay: Contemporary Sculpting Techniques by Master Artists: Arleo, Boger, Burns, González, Jeck, Novak, Smith, Takamori,  Walsh, Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott.  Lark Books.  731.82  (Available at Westside and Middle Tyger--or have it sent to the branch of your choice.)
     
  • The Flower Painter's Essential Handbook, Jill Bays.  David & Charles.  751.4224 BAYS 
     
  • Fotolog.book: A Global Snapshot for the Digital Age, Nick Currie.  Thames & Hudson.  779.93 FOTOLOG
     
  • Gabriele Münter: The Search for Expression 1906-1917, Gabriele Münter.  Courtauld Institute Art Gallery.  759.3 MUNTER
     
  • Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh, Catharine H. Roehrig.  Metropolitan Museum of Art.  932.014 HATSHEPSUT
     
  • Kunst in Schokolade=Chocolate Art, Julia Friedrich.  Hatje Cantz.  736.9 KUNST
     
  • The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities, From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the Worlds Greatest Museums, Peter Watson.  BBS PublicAffairs.  363.25962 WATSON
     
  • My So-Called Digital Life: 2,000 Teenagers, 300 Cameras, and 30 Days to Document Their World, Bob Pletka.  Santa Monica Press.  779.9305235 PLETKA
     
  • National Geographic Visual History of the World, Klaus Berndl et al.  National Geographic Society.  902.02 NATIONAL
     
  • The Potter's Eye: Art & Tradition in North Carolina Pottery, Mark Hewitt.  North Carolina Museum of Art.  738.09756 HEWITT  (Available at Cowpens and Westside--or have it sent to the branch of your choice.)
     
  • Raku, Tim Andrews.  A & C Black.  738.1 ANDREWS  (Available at Landrum--or have it sent to the branch of your choice.)
     
  • Renoir's Women, Ann Dumas.  Merrell.  759.4 DUMAS  (Available at Cowpens and Middle Tyger--or have it sent to the branch of your choice.)
     
  • The Stained Glass Classroom: Projects Using Copper Foil, Lead & Mosaic Techniques, Vicki Payne.  Sterling Pub.  748.50282 PAYNE
     
  • Understanding Adobe Photoshop: Digital Imaging Concepts and Techniques, Richard Harrington.  Peachpit Press.  006.6869 HARRINGTON
     
  • Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq,  Ghaith Abdul-Ahad et al.  Chelsea Green.  956.70443 UNEMBEDDED
     
  • Velazquez, Elena Raqusa editor.  Rizzoli.  759.6 VELAZQUEZ
 
       

Events & Exhibits

 
 






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
 

 
 
 
 
 
     
             

German Expressionism

   

Find It!

 
  • Arcadia & Metropolis: Masterworks of German Expressionism from the Nationalgalerie Berlin, Roland März.  Prestel.  759.3 ARCADIA
     
  • The Berlin of George Grosz: Drawings, Watercolours & Prints, 1912-1930, George Grosz.  National Academy of Arts.  741.943 GROSZ
     
  • (VIDEO) Dance of Life: Edvard Munch, Slvi A. Lindseth.  Kultur.  VIDEO B MUNCH
     
  • Egon Schiele: Drawings & Watercolors, Egon Schiele.  Thames & Hudson.  759.36 SCHIELE
     
  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: The Dresden & Berlin Years, Ernst Ludwig KirchnerRoyal Academy of the Arts.  791.943 KIRCHNER
     
  • Expressionism, Norbert Wolf.  Taschen.  759.3 WOLF
     
  • Expressionist Watercolors, 1905-1920, Werner Hofmann.  H. N. Abrams.  751 HOFMANN
     
  • The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany, Jonathan Petropoulos.  Oxford University Press.  709.43 PETROPOULOS
     
  • Gabriele Münter: The Search for Expression 1906-1917, Gabriele Münter.  Courtauld Institute Art Gallery.  759.3 MUNTER  (NEW BOOK!)
     
  • George Grosz: An Autobiography, George Grosz.  University of California Press.  B GROSZ, GEORGE
     
  • German Art of the Twentieth Century, Museum of Modern Art.  Museum of Modern Art.  709.43 GERMAN
     
  • German Expressionist Woodcuts, Shane Weller.  Dover.  761.2 GERMAN
     
  • Käthe Kollwitz, Elizabeth Prelinger.  National Gallery of Art.  709.2 PRELINGER
     
  • Kokoschka, Oskar Kokoschka.  Cameo/Abrams.  759.2 KOKOSCHKA
     
  • Max Beckmann, Max Beckmann.  Museum of Modern Art.  709.2 BECKMANN
     
  • Munch: In His Own Words, Poul Erik Tøjner.  Prestel.  759.81 TOJNER
     
  • Otto Dix, 1891-1969, Eva Karcher.  Taschen.  759.3 KARCHNER
     
  • Paul Klee: Masterpieces of the Djerassi Collection, Paul Klee.  760.092 KLEE
     
  • Paul Klee: The Nature of Creation, Works 1914-1940, Robert Kudielka.  Hayward Gallery.  759.9494 KUDIELKA
     
  • Vasily Kandinsky: A Colorful Life: The Collection of the Lenbachhaus, Munich, Vivian E. Barnett.  Harry N. Abrams.  760.092 BARNETT
 

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
!

 
 
     
                 

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