Login and search LibrarySearch using keywords that describe your topic, then refine your results to books and chapters.

•    Combine your keywords with AND to find all search terms.
•    Use OR to find any words or synonyms.
•    Find “exact phrases” with quotation marks.
•    Add an asterisk to part of a word to find different endings and plurals.

An example search:
"contemporary art" AND (sculpture OR painting) AND Australia*

Try these keywords and subject headings to search for relevant books and e-books: 

• Art and state -- Australia
• Art history and theory
• Arts & society
• Arts management
• Community art projects
• Computer art
• Digital photography
• Drawing techniques and media
• Installations (Art)
• Mass media and the arts
• Painting
• Printmaking
• Sculpture
• Visual arts

Find art and photography related books in the collection by using the following call numbers: 

• 069 Museology - Museum science, Museum history

• 111.85 Aesthetics

• 126 The self

• 142 Philosophy - Critical theory

• 149.97 Philosophy - Postmodernism

• 190 Philosophy - Modern Western

• 302.2 Semiotics

• 305.42 Feminism

• 325.3 Postcolonial discourse

• 700.1 Philosophy and theory of art

• 700.415 Art symbolism

• 700.72 Creative practice and research

• 700.9 History and biography of the arts

• 701 Art philosophy and theory

• 701.17 Art aesthetics

• 701.18 Criticism and appreciation (writing about art)

• 702.8 Art - Techniques, processes, equipment

• 703 Art dictionaries and encyclopedias

• 704 Art - Special topics in fine and decorative arts

• 704.042 Feminism and art 

• 706 Art - Organisations and management

• 707 Art - Education and research

• 708 Art - Galleries, museums and private collections

• 709 Art - Movements and history

• 709.2 Art - Biographies

• 730 Sculpture and related arts

• 731.4 Sculpture - Techniques and procedures

• 738 Ceramic arts

• 740 Graphic arts and decorative arts

• 741 Drawing

• 742 Perspective in drawing

• 745 Decorative arts

• 745.44 Design history 

• 750 Painting and paintings

• 750.1 Painting - Philosophy and theory

• 751 Painting - Techniques and equipment

• 752 Colour

• 753 Art symbolism, allegory, mythology

• 754 Genre paintings

• 759 Painting - Historical, geographic, biography

• 760 Printmaking and prints

• 770 Photography

• 772 Special photographic process

• 775 Digital photography

• 776 Computer art (Digital art)

• 780 Music

• 790 Recreation and performing arts

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