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 Reference and Circulating Books:


The MPC Library uses the Library of Congress Classification System (LC System) to organize its collections. 
Books about Fine Arts are shelved in the N section.   
Below are the subclasses:
N – Visual Arts (General)
NA – Architecture
NB – Sculpture
NC – Drawing.  Design.  Illustration
ND – Painting
NE – Print Media
NK – Decorative Arts
NX – Arts in General

For a more detailed information about this class, go to http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/

Reference books are located on the main (second) floor, and circulating books are located on the third floor.

 Electronic Books:


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African-American Art

ebooks

Careers in Art

ebooks

Eyes of Power Art and Early Tokugawa Authority

ebooks

Great Jobs for Art Majors

ebooks

Oxford Companion to Christian Art and Architecture

ebooks

Passionate Collector: Eighty Years in the World of Art

ebooks

 Periodicals:


American Craft (Formerly Craft Horizons)

 

Art In America

 

Art Index

 

Artforum International

 

Artnews

 

Photo Techniques (Formerly Darkroom And Creative Camera Techniques)

 

Woman’s Art Journal

 

 Websites:


Art History Resources on the Web

http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html 

Art Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/

Artcyclopedia

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

ArtSource

http://www.ilpi.com/artsource/welcome.html

AskArt

http://www.askart.com/

Getty Museum

http://www.getty.edu/

Louvre

http://www.louvre.fr/

Mother of All Art and Art History Links Page

http://www.art-design.umich.edu/mother/

National Gallery of Art - The Collection http://www.nga.gov/collection/
National Museum of Women in the Arts http://www.nmwa.org

Smithsonian Research Information

http://sirismm.si.edu/siris/saam.htm

Timeline of Art History- Metropolitan Museum of Art

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/

Web Gallery of Art

http://www.wga.hu/index.html   

World Art Treasures

http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/  

 Subject Headings:


Art AND History Color in Art
Art AND Literature Cubism
Art AND Society Decorative Arts
Art, Italian Drawing
Art, Modern Etching
Art—History Graphic Arts
Art—History— Dictionaries Interior Decoration
Architecture Painting,  Renaissance
Architecture,  American Photography, Artistic
Artists Sculpture