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Art and Art History Resources

New Books

Art + Archive: Understanding the Archival Turn in Contemporary Art
Reclaiming the Americas: Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory
After the Bauhaus, Before the Internet: A History of Graphic Design Pedagogy
The Burke Collection of Italian Manuscript Paintings
Sexually Explicit Art Feminist Theory and Gender in The 1970s
A World History of Women Photographers
Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure
Up Against the Real: Black Mask from Art to Action
The Art of Colour: The History of Art in 39 Pigments
Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered

Finding Books and Using the Snowden Online Catalog

The Library of Congress (LC) classification (the system Snowden Library uses to organize books) for Fine Arts begins with the letters N and there are books related to photography and handicrafts in the T call numbers. The general categories for art and art history are:

  • N = Fine Arts
  • TR = Photography
  • TT = Handicrafts. Arts and Crafts

You can find these general categories on the 4th floor of Snowden Library. You may want to browse the shelf where books on your subject are located to see what is available. For more targeted searching, use the search boxes below.

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WorldCat

Don't see what you need at Snowden? You can search for books available at other libraries that you can request via InterLibrary Loan using

E-Z Borrow

If you know a book title you want, you can also use E-Z Borrow to order it from other libraries in or near Pennsylvania.