The Fine Arts Library and other UT Libraries have thousands and thousands of books on all conceivable topics in their collections. You can perform author and/or title searches in The Library Catalog to find both print and eBooks. You can also search by subject headings and keywords.
Keyword Searching
Use keywords to search for artists, art movements, materials, or your topic.
Examples:
Ed Ruscha
Contemporary Art
Photography
Title
Use the title of a book you are looking for in a catalog search.
Example: A Short Guide to Writing about Art
Author
Find a book by a specific author using their last name, first name.
Example: Barnet, Sylvan
Subject Search
Use the subject search to find books related to your topic.
Example:
American Art
Photography
You can also try browsing the stacks in person at the Fine Arts Library. The books are located on the 5th floor and are cataloged by Library of Congress Classification. Try looking in these sections for the books that you need.
Art-General (N)
Architecture (NA)
Sculpture (NB)
Drawing (NC)
Commercial Art (NC 997)
Painting (ND)
Prints, Graphic Arts (NE)
Decorative Arts (NK)
Design History (NK 1100 - NK 1400)
Furniture (NK 1900 - NK 2750)
Art Theory (NX)
Printing (Z 116 - Z 265)
Photography (TR)
Industrial Design (TS)
Typography/Typesetting (Z 250 - Z251)
Bibliographies can be very useful in collecting a group of information resources on a particular topic, Resources collected and published as bibliographies have the added benefit of being recommended by an expert in the field, though they may not include the most recent publications. Library catalogues are good sources for comprehensive searches of the literature.
These are usually multi-volume sets that chronicle the entire output of an artist's career. Extensively researched, they are often considered definitive pieces of scholarship. While not every artist merits a catalogue raisonné, the library has examples for many artists. Catalogues Raisonnés are also often broken down by media, for instance "the complete paintings" or "the complete drawings." To find catalogues raisonné, search "catalogues raisonne" AND the artists name as a keyword search.
At present, the Portal aggregates 170,000 digitized volumes from from nearly 40 participating institution.around the world. You have free and open access to all titles found via the Getty Research Portal.
Part of the mission at the Getty is to produce "innovative and long-lasting digital publications" on an open platform as a part of the growing interest in addressing the specific needs of art scholars when creating digital publications. Search or Browse this growing collection of more than 300 Getty ebooks. Read online, or download.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is offering full text access to many of their publications, including scholarly texts, exhibition catalogs, and their two journals, the Metropolitan Museum Journal, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal. Though most texts are available full text, a few are only partially available via Google Books.
Scroll down to NGA Online Editions for a look at the National Gallery's free e-books.
The British Museum offers eleven research catalogues covering art objects (mostly from the ancient world, but also including Rembrandt and His School and Russian Icons).
If we don't have a title you need, don't hesitate to use our Interlibrary Loan service. It's free for current students, faculty, and staff to request materials from affiliated libraries. Please allow 5+ days for physical materials to arrive and about 24-48 hours for articles.
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