LibGuides: Visual Arts: FInd Books / eBooks

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Selected Art Print Books

Art: A World History by Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff; Giorgio Taborelli (Editor)
Call Number: OVER 709 A784 1998
Publication Date: 1998
Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order) by Bridget Quinn
Call Number: 709.2 Q7b 2017
Publication Date: 2017
A History of Pictures by David Hockney; Martin Gayford
Call Number: 759 H685h 2016
Publication Date: 2016
What Are You Looking At? by Will Gompertz
Call Number: 709 G634w 2012
Publication Date: 2012

Selected Photography Print Books

Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present by Deborah Willis
Call Number: OVER 770.899 W734r 2000
Publication Date: 2000
Firecrackers: Female Photographers Now by Fiona Rogers; Max Houghton
Call Number: 779 R725f 2017
Publication Date: 2017
I Am You by Gordon Parks
Call Number: OVER 779.092 P252i 2016
Publication Date: 2016

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Selected Art eBooks

Art and Design: History, Theory, Practice by Peter Stupples and Jane Venis
Publication Date: 2017
Fifty Key Texts in Art History by Grant Pooke (Editor); Diana Newall (Editor)
Publication Date: 2012
Oil and Acrylic Workshop by Kimberly Adams
Publication Date: 2017
Artist Toolbox: Color
Publication Date: 2017