Art and Design: Books and e-books
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Books are an excellent way to broaden your knowledge or start researching a subject. As well as searching for books and e-books directly in the Library Search, there are multiple ways to discover relevant books:
You can also suggest new books, if we don't have something you're looking for.
Resource Lists
Resource Lists provides access to reading lists for your modules. You can search for lists using the module code, name, or your lecturer's name.
Individual items on the lists will take you directly to Library Search or to the full text for e-books and e-journals.
If you can't find your reading list, talk to your module leader or contact us at Library Chat.
Accessing resources lists (video)
Browsing Books
Looking for other books on the real or virtual shelves is another way to discover interesting titles. Look for the shelf marks corresponding to related topics. Online you can browse and search the e-book collections BCU has subscribed.
See the guide bellow for browsing books by subject:
Shelf Guide
Design 745
Drawing 741
Education & Art 707
Painting 750
Photography 770
Sculpture 730
Twentieth century art 709.04
Twenty-first century art 709.05
At the School of Art Library, books on artists & photographers can be found in the ARTISTS & PHOTO sections on the Ground Floor.
Please note that a shelfmark starting with Q (Quarto) or F (Folio) means that it is bigger than normal books. Qs are usually within the main collection but Fs are shelved separately.
New titles added to School of Art Library
Sonia Boyce by ISBN: 9780300266054Publication Date: 2022-06-21
Creative Convergence: The AI Renaissance in Art and Design by ISBN: 9783031451270Publication Date: 2023
Modern Sculpture by
This tapestry of primary sources is an essential primer on sculpture and its makers. Modern Sculpture presents a selection of manifestos, documents, statements, articles, and interviews from more than ninety sculptors, including a diverse selection of contemporary sculptors. With this book, editor Douglas Dreishpoon defers to artists, whose varied points of view illuminate sculpture's transformation--from object to action, concept to phenomenon--over the course of more than a century. Chapters arranged in chronological sequences highlight dominant stylistic, philosophical, and thematic threads uniting kindred groups. The result is an artist-centric history of sculpture as a medium of consequence and character.
ISBN: 9780520969827Publication Date: 2022-10-25
Atmospheres of projection : environmentality in art and screen mediaISBN: 9780226817477
Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art by
This book examines Afrofuturism in African American art, focusing specifically on images of black women and how those images expand the discourse of representation in visual culture of the United States. This volume defines a visual language of Afrofuturism that includes materiality, temporality, and black liberation. Elizabeth Hamilton discusses the visual progenitors of Afrofuturism. In the artworks of Pierre Bennu, Sanford Biggers, Alison Saar, Mequitta Ahuja, Robert Pruitt, Renee Cox, Dawolu Jabari Anderson, Alma Thomas, and Harriet Powers, the fantastic narratives of Afrofuturism are uncovered through in-depth case studies. These case studies engage with Afrofuturism as a black feminist visual theory that helps to unburden the images of black women from the stereotypical visual scripts that are so common in contemporary visual culture of the United States. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, American literature, gender studies, popular culture, and African American studies.
ISBN: 9781000627084Publication Date: 2022-08-12
The color Pynk: Black Femme Art for SurvivalISBN: 9781477325636
Main e-book collections
If we don't have something?
When an item is not in stock
There are many options available to you when a book is not in stock:
- Reserve a book that is already loaned.
- If you found a book held by another library, you can request an inter-library loan.
- And finally, you may also suggest a book for purchase.