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Call Numbers for Art and Art History

Call Numbers for Art and Art-related Books

N - art in general
NA - architecture
NB - sculpture
NC - drawing
ND - painting
NE - prints and printmaking
NK - decorative arts
NX - the arts (art and music, art and literature, etc.)
TR - photography
Z - typography, book arts, and various subject bibliographies

Art Books Elsewhere

Art Discovery Group Catalogue
Research gateway to art literature: records for periodicals, conference papers, festschriften, auction catalogues, exhibition catalogues and much more.

Art & Architecture ePortal This link opens in a new window
A growing collection of text and image searchable art and architectural ebooks (including monographs and exhibition catalogues from Yale University Press, Princeton University Press, The MIT Press, Yale University Art Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, Harvard Art Museum and others. 1960s-current

Canadian Online Art Book Project
Original works commissioned by the Art Canada Institute.
Courtauld Books Online
Open access scholarly books published by the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Digital Cicognara Library
Major collection of early works about European art and architecture from books in the library of Count Leopoldo Cicognara (1767-1834)
Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
Historic books focusing on early American decorative arts; compiled by the University of Wisconsin.
Getty Research Portal
Free access to over 30,000 digitized art history art history publications, rare books, and related literature.
Getty Publications - Virtual Library
An open, online repository of more than 250 Getty publications from their 45-year publishing history, available as high-quality scans to read online, or to download in their entirety, for free.
Guggenheim & Whitney Art Resources from the Mid-20th Century
Digitized books from the collections of Hilla Rebay and Juliana Force - a collaborative project between the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications
All known publications from 1869-1939, along with a small selection of later titles, are part of this collection. Additionally, thanks to the Museum's Digital Media and Editorial Departments, all full-text titles from the MetPublications project--over 400 publications from 1964 to the present--also are included here.
Wildenstein Institute Publications
Freely accessible ebooks about French artists from the 18th and 19th-centuries, courtesy of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute.

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