LibGuides: * Art & Art History: Finding Books

Finding Books

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Art Stacks Call Number Ranges

We organize books by Library of Congress call numbers:

N Visual Arts
NA Architecture
NB Sculpture
NC Drawing
ND Painting
NE Print Media
NK Decorative & Applied Arts
NX Writings on the Arts

BH Aesthetics
E Includes North American Indigenous Peoples
TR Photography

(this list is not exhaustive of what is contained within the Art Stacks)