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Art History 202: World Civilization Since 1500: Books

Finding Books in the Lee Library

Search by artist's name, artistic style, century, country, or nationality. Art books have subject headings according to:


MEDIUM                           Ex: painting, sculpture, drawing
NATIONALITY                  Ex: art, English; sculpture, American; painting, French
GENRE                              Ex: landscape painting; portrait painting
TIME PERIOD                   Ex: painting--19th century; art, modern--20th century
STYLE/MOVEMENT         Ex: baroque; symbolism

Examples of Subject Searches

Try some of these keyword combinations or subject searches in ScholarSearch:
s= art, French--19th century
s= art, baroque AND italy

s= surrealism

s= art and society
s= art--political aspects
s= art--social aspects
s= Christian art and symbolism--history


For specific topics depicted in art, search:

BY SUBJECT | (topic) ... in art
Ex: s= war in art;  women in art , etc.

BY KEYWORDS | (topic) ... AND art
Ex: christianity AND art; revolutions AND art

RefWorks

Create and format your own bibliography of articles, books, etc. Import references from databases and use the style guide of your choice!

Call Number Areas


level 5  |  FLOOR MAP

N     visual arts in general
NA  architecture
NB  sculpture
NC  drawing, design, illustration
ND  painting
NE  prints
NK  design, decorative arts
NX  visual and performing arts
TR  photography
TS  industrial design (level 2)

Z 40-286  typography