Find Books & Exhibition Catalogues
Browse the shelves
Many libraries organise books by Library of Congress call numbers:
N Visual arts
NA Architecture
NB Sculpture
NC Drawing
ND Painting
NE Print media
NK Decorative arts
NX Arts in general
TP Some ceramics/pottery
TR Photography
TT Crafts & Textiles
Check out
Search Other Libraries & Open Access
In addition to the Sofia Discovery tool, check:
- Art Canada Institute/Institut de 'art canadien - online art books.
- ArtDiscovery Group Catalogue - art-focused research experience within the WorldCat environment.
- Europeana - books, paintings, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised in Europe.
- Getty Research Portal - provides access to an extensive collection of digitized art history texts.
- Gallica - contains over 1,00,000 digital objects including books, periodicals, maps, and manuscripts.
- Metropolitan Museum Publications Online - open access of publications from last 50 years.
- Open access e-books - interdisciplinary coverage including arts.
- Open Access European - OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books.
Images are Creative Commons. Image credits: "EX.IT Materiali fuori contesto" photo of exhibition catalogue by Rosa Menkman; "Pushing the Canvas" Photo of exhibition catalogue by Marc Whathieu. Via Flickr.