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The art of the bookstore: the bookstore paintings of Gibbs M. Smith, Gibbs M. Smith

Call number: 759.13/S648

The Art of the Bookstore is romantic, poetic, charismatic, and enduring, and independent booksellers around the world thrive on creating this unique culture and ambiance. In this lavish limited-edition gift, the words of many of these booksellers are paired with 40 bookstore paintings chronicling the passion and respect for books, booksellers, and the publishing industry.

Gibbs Smith, founder and president of his namesake publishing company, started the business with his wife, Catherine, in Santa Barbara, and later moved the company to their hometown, Layton, Utah.

Graphic Novel
Graphic Novel

Delights: a story of Hieronymus Bosch, Guy Colwell

Call number: GN 759.9492/B742/C727

An obsessive painter, working away for years in near secrecy, now reveals a magnum opus to the world—author and subject, intertwined. In Guy Colwell's first full graphic novel in 33 years, we see one painter, Colwell himself, consider another, Hieronymus Bosch, and the story behind the latter's most notable work told in sequential panels. Colwell takes the facts of Bosch's time and setting and constructs a tale of a man and artist torn equally among piety, creativity, and commerce. This imaginatively conceived historical graphic novel is Colwell's crowning achievement in a cartooning career, begun in the underground comix movement of the 1970s, and marked by risk-taking and political engagement. His drawing, rendering, and storytelling has never been as self-assured as in Delights.

Compact Disc
Compact Disc

Christmas in the dog house, Bill Cunliffe Trio

Call number: X C91.5 ch

This album stars the Bill Cunliffe Trio: Grammy Award-winning bandleader Bill Cunliffe (piano), Dave Robaire (bass), and Marvin “Smitty” Smith (drums). Also featured on select tunes is tenor saxophonist Ralph Moore, who boasts distinguished collaborations with musicians like Dizzy Gillespie, Horace Silver, and Freddy Hubbard, among others.

Track Listing: 1. Ding Dong Merrily On High 2. Christmas is Coming 3. Merry Christmas Darling 4. Snow 5. On This Day 6. The Sussex Mummers 7. It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year 8. Linus and Lucy 9. Go Tell It On The Mountain 10. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence 11. Hark the Herald Angels Sing

ART BOOKS

 

100 works & 100 books: selected works and artists' books from exhibitions and the collection of the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1991-2022

1000 design classics

Striking iron: the art of African blacksmiths

Portraits unmasked: the stories behind the faces, Francesca Bonazzoli

Making things: finding use, meaning & satisfaction in crafting everyday objects, Erin Boyle

Raw color: the circles of David Smith, David Breslin

Absence of being, Susan Burnside

Chasing beauty: the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Natalie Dykstra

Carlo Scarpa: the complete buildings, Jale N. Erzen

Marking time: art in the age of mass incarceration, Nicole R. Fleetwood

Sofonisba Anguissola, Cecilia Gamberini

Coveted: art and innovation in high jewelry, Melanie Grant

Art is a tyrant: the unconventional life of Rosa Bonheur, Catherine Hewitt

This is Caravaggio, Annabel Howard

William Hogarth: visions in print, Alice Insley

Artemisia Gentileschi, Jonathan Jones

Fakes, forgeries, and frauds, Nancy Moses

Authority and freedom: a defense of the arts, Jed Perl

Back to the drawing board: Ed Ruscha, art, and design in the 1960s, Jennifer Quick

Alfred Stieglitz: taking pictures, making painters, Phyllis Rose

The art of the bookstore: the bookstore paintings of Gibbs M. Smith, Gibbs M. Smith

Eye of the beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the reinvention of seeing, Laura J. Snyder

Nature imprinted: a complete guide to lino printing, with 10 designs inspired by the natural world, Jane Spink

Frida in America: the creative awakening of a great artist, Celia Stahr

Louise Moillon, Lesley Stevenson

Johan Zoffany: artist and adventurer, Penelope Treadwell

Made in Japan: the postwar creative print movement, Alicia Volk

Make art not war: political protest posters from the twentieth century, Ralph Young

Capturing nature: 150 years of nature printing, Matthew Zucker

ARTISTS' BOOKS

Niki Nanas Iolas Gallery Saint Phalle, Niki de Saint Phalle

GRAPHIC NOVELS

Delights: a story of Hieronymus Bosch, Guy Colwell

MUSIC BOOKS

 

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REFERENCE BOOKS

 

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YOUNG PEOPLE

 

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COMPACT DISCS

 

Christmas in the dog house, Bill Cunliffe Trio

A love sonnet for Billie Holiday, Wadada Leo Smith

Two legends of jazz, Johnny Varro, Gift of Marie Vickers in honor of F. Norman Vickers, M.D.

Bird with strings…and more!, Phil Woods, Gift of Marie Vickers in honor of F. Norman Vickers, M.D.

LPs

 

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DVDs

 

George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, Emile Ardolino