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Online eBooks on Art History

Here are just a few eBook titles available online that may help your research on Art History. Search the library catalog for more!

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Art History: The Basics by Diana Newall; Grant Pooke
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9780415373098
Publication Date: 2008
Art History: The Basics will give you answers to questions like: What is art and art history? What are the main methodologies used to understand art? How have ideas about form, sex and gender shaped representation? What connects art with psychoanalysis, semiotics and Marxism? How are globalization and postmodernism changing art and art history?
The Art of Art History by Donald Preziosi
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9780191552021
Publication Date: 2009
This anthology is a guide to understanding art history through critical reading of the field's most innovative and influential texts, focusing on the past two centuries. Each section focuses on a key issue: art as history; aesthetics; form, content, and style; anthropology; meaning and interpretation; authorship and identity; and the phenomenon of globalization.
The Social History of Art, vol. 3: Rococo, Classicism and Romanticism by Arnold Hauser; Jonathan Harris
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9780415199476
Publication Date: 1999
Exploring the interaction between art and society, Hauser details social and historical movements and sketches the frameworks in which visual art is produced. Harris asseses the importance of the work for contemporary art history and visual culture.
Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination by Marsha Meskimmon
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 1136937064
Publication Date: 2010
Explores the role of art in conceiving and reconfiguring the political, ethical and social landscape of our time.

Books on Art History

We have a large collection of print art books at Cerro Coso's IWV campus. Here are just a few titles available for checkout to help your research on Art History. Search the library catalog for more!

Art: A New History by Paul Johnson
Call Number: N5300.J64 2003
ISBN: 0060530758
Publication Date: 2003
This narrative account, from the earliest cave paintings up to the present day, has new things to say about almost every period of art. Taking account of changing scholarship and shifting opinions, Johnson draws our attention to a number of neglected artists and styles, especially in Scandinavia, Germany, Russia and the Americas.
Women Artists by Margaret Barlow
Call Number: N8354.B36 2008
ISBN: 9780789399823
Publication Date: 2008
Traces the achievements of women in the arts throughout history, and includes approximately three hundred color plates of works by female artists spanning five centuries.
Three Centuries of American Prints
Call Number: NE505.N38 2016
ISBN: 9780500239520
Publication Date: 2016
Nearly 200 American prints, representing more than 100 artists, and dating from the colonial era to the present day, are brought together in this unprecedented volume from the National Gallery of Art to commemorate its collection and recent acquisitions.
Janson's Basic History of Western Art by David Simon; Penelope Davies; Frima Hofrichter; Joseph Jacobs; Ann Roberts
Call Number: N5300.J29 2014
ISBN: 9780205242634
Publication Date: 2013
Creates a narrative of how art has changed over time in the cultures that Europe has claimed as its patrimony and that Americans have claimed through their connection to Europe.
Gardner's Art Through the Ages: A Concise Western History by Fred S. Kleiner
Call Number: N5300.G252 2014
ISBN: 9781133954798
Publication Date: 2013
Provides a rich cultural backdrop for each of the covered periods and geographical locations, and incorporates new artists and art forms--all reproduced according to the highest standards of clarity and color fidelity. The unique scale feature will help you better visualize the actual size of the artworks shown in the book.

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Library Call Number Sections

Books at Cerro Coso are shelved by subject using Library of Congress call numbers. Here is a breakdown of where to find books on your topic:

N1 - N9165: Visual arts
NB1 - NB1952: Sculpture
NC1 - NC1940: Drawing. Design. Illustration
ND25 - ND3416: Painting
NK3700 - NK4695: Ceramics
TP785 - TP869: Clay industries. Ceramic. Glass
TR1 - TR1050: Photography
TT205 - TT267: Metalworking
TT919 - TT925: Pottery

Subject Headings

When looking in the catalog (and some databases) for resources, try searching by subject keyword for more refined results. Here are some general subject headings you may wish to try:

Art
Art--History
Ceramics
Color
Decoration and ornament
Drawing
Painting
Photography
Photography, Artistic
Pottery
Sculpture