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Art and Art History Resources

New Books

The Art of Colour: The History of Art in 39 Pigments
Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered
Cultivating Critical Conversations in Art Education
The Beauty of Choice: On Women, Art, and Freedom
Art As Demonstration: A Revolutionary Recasting of Knowledge
Grime, Glitter, and Glass: The Body and the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art
A Question of Value: Stories from the Life of an Auctioneer
Art, Activism, and Sexual Violence
The Essential Jill Johnston Reader
Caspar David Friedrich: Art for a New Age

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 letter N. 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.