Art books are cataloged according to artist's name, medium of works, nationality, genre, time period, and style/movement. Search using the following subject heading patterns:
MEDIUM | ex: Sculpture, Greek; Sculpture, Hellenistic
NATIONALITY | ex: Art, Greek; Art, Etruscan
GENRE | ex: Portrait sculpture, Roman
TIME PERIOD | Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C.
Examples of subject heading patterns:
Aphrodite (Greek deity)--Art
Art and mythology
Art, Ancient--Greece
Greece--Antiquities
Art, Classical--Themes, motives
Parthenon (Athens, Greece)
Athens (Greece)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Rome--Antiquities
Antiquities, Roman
Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece
Mythology, Classical, in art
Vases, Greek
Vases, Red-figured--Greece
Vase-painting, Greek
Sculpture, Greek
Sculpture--Greece
Exhibition Catalogs have subject headings for the name of the artist, subject of the exhibition, and name of the museum or gallery.
Use the keyword "exhibitions" and the artist's name or subject.
Ex: Art, Greek--Exhibitions
Museum Catalogs are catalogs of a museum's permanent collection, and are cataloged by the name of the museum and the subdivision "catalogs" in the subject. Use the keyword "catalogs" and the name of the museum.
Ex: British Museum--Catalogs
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
