Skip to Main Content

Visual Arts: Art and design

Class numbers for art and design

 

 

Here are some of the class numbers you might find useful:

701 Theory of art
709.2 Modern artists
720 Architecture
730 Sculpture
738 Ceramics
741 Drawing
745 Decorative arts
750 Painting
760 Printmaking

 

Each area is then broken down into more detail.

For example- within the  750 section  there are the following  more specific areas

759.2 British painters
759.4 French painters
759.5 Italian painters
759.6 Spamish painters
759.9492 Dutch painters

 

Portrait of Francois Langlois by Anthony Van Dyck. Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham.

Picture via VADS.

Art Database

Art and Architecture Complete gives you access to hundreds of art and design journals, including Ceramics Technical, Modern Painters and Art review. 

You can create an account and save any articles of interest to a folder so that you can easily find them again. You can print out articles and e-mail them to yourself or someone else.

Click on the link below to access it.

 

Journals for art and design

 

 

 Journals are a good source of inspiration and keep you up to date.

 Here are some of the titles for art and design:

  • Modern Painters
  • Wallpaper
  • FX
  • Printmaking Today
  • Frieze
  • Art Review
  • Ceramic Review
  • FX
  • New Design

 

 

 

 The latest issue of the journal is displayed on the front shelf, lift up the lid to see the back copies. Journals can't be borrowed but you can photocopy one artticle per issue.