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Books of Interest

Alaska Native Art by Susan W. Fair
Call Number: E99.E7 F246 2006 Alaska Collection (UAA/APU Consortium Library)
ISBN: 9781889963792
Publication Date: 2006
This work celebrates the rich art of Alaska's Native peoples, setting their work in the context of historical traditions and demonstrating the vibrant role it plays in contemporary culture. It showcases art from beadwork to ivory carving, basketry to skin sewing; from Aleutian Islander, Pacific Eskimo, Tlingit, Athabaskan, Yup'ik, and Inupiaq artists, with full-color photographs of artists at work.
Ceramics and the Human Figure by Edith Garcia
Call Number: NK3940.G373 2012 General Collection (UAA/APU Consortium Library)
ISBN: 9781408132500
Publication Date: 2012
Features works by key ceramic artists that work within the realm of the human form, showcasing and discussing individual artists with practices within the field of installation and sculpture as well as those incorporating new technologies. The artists are divided by themes, with each chapter giving a short introduction, and then going on to display the work and ideas of each. A chapter is also included on making methods.
Contemporary Chinese Art by Paul Gladston
Call Number: N7345.G53 2014 General Collection (UAA/APU Consortium Library)
ISBN: 9781780232690
Publication Date: 2014
Since the confirmation of Deng Xiaoping's policy of Opening and Reform in 1978, the People's Republic of China has undergone a liberalization of culture that has led to the production of numerous forms of avant-garde, experimental, and museum-based art.
Oxford History of Classical Art by John Boardman (Editor)
Call Number: N5610.O84 1993 General Collection (UAA/APU Consortium Library)
ISBN: 9780198143864
Publication Date: 1993
The art and architecture of Greece and Rome lie at the heart of the classical tradition of the western world. Its development was complex and remarkably swift. It ran from near abstraction in 8th Century BC Greece, through years of observation and learning from the arts of the non-Greek world to the east and in Egypt, to the brilliance of the classical revolution of the 5th Century. After Alexander the Great, this became the art of an empire, readily learned by Rome and further developed until it provided the idiom for the imaging of Christianity. Here, five leading scholars tell this story of the arts over some 1500 years, using a rich succession of illustrations. They demonstrate how the arts served very different societies and patrons -- tyrannies, democracies, empires; the roles and objectives of the artists; and the way in which the classical style was disseminated far beyond the borders of the Greek and Roman world.

Examples of LC Subjects Headings and Keywords for Searching

A few examples of subject headings (for a targeted search) and keywords (for a broader search) to help you get started in the Library Catalog.

Subject Headings

Art -- criticism
Art -- history
Art -- technique
Art, Canadian -- 20th century
Art, modern -- terminology
Artists -- Alaska
Decorative arts
Graphic design (typography)
Graphic methods
Visual communication

Keywords (if too many results, try terms as subject headings)

Art and design
Art movements or periods, such as:
- Art Nouveau
- Impressionism
- Baroque
- Renaissance
- Arts and Crafts
Specific artists or media, such as:
- Pablo Picasso
- Ceramic artists

Browsing the Shelves by LC Call Numbers

Call number ranges for browsing the shelves. See the Library of Congress Classification Online for a more specific breakdown.

N Visual arts

NA Architecture

NB Sculpture

NC Drawing. Design. Illustration

ND Painting

NE Print media

NK Decorative arts

NX Arts in general

TR Photography