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BOOKS!
Books in the library are organized by call number according to the Library of Congress classification system which groups items by subject, so you can often simply browse the shelves. Art books can be found in the N section!
| Subject | Call Number Range |
|---|---|
| Visual Arts | N |
| Sculpture | NB |
| Drawing, Design, Illustration | NC |
| Painting | ND |
| Printmaking | NE |
| Decorative Arts/Graphic Design | NK |
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An in-depth look at the transformative influence of Mexican artists on their U.S. counterparts during a period of social change.
An overview of the history and theory of Chicano/a art from the 1960s to the present, emphasizing the debates and vocabularies that have played key roles in its conceptualization.
A rigorous and in-depth analysis of MoMA's history regarding racial issues.
A rich showcase of the vibrant feminist aesthetic over the last 150 years.
Reconsiders conventional frameworks for understanding, exhibiting, and discussing Latin American and Latinx art.
Sixty-seven female artists and their work from the sixteenth century to the present demonstrate the evolution of art through a female-empowered lens.
EBOOKS!
The CCSF community has access to more than 242,000 ebooks and evideos via our O'Reilly and EBSCO eBook subscriptions.
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This dynamic collection of Black voices works like an incantation of origin, healing, and imagination.
Using advertising photographs of black women (and men) drawn from vintage issues of Ebony and Jet magazines, the exquisite and thought-provoking collages of world-renowned artist Lorna Simpson explore the richly nuanced language of hair.
Recounts the incredible life of the American sculptor Ruth Asawa.
Investigates the diverse body of works produced by black artists as these contributors come to grips with the ways in which their neglected and repeatedly unexamined similarities and differences bear witness to the existence of an African diasporic visual arts tradition.
Explores Sully's stunning portfolio through the lenses of modernism, industrial design, Dakota women's aesthetics, mental health, ethnography and anthropology, primitivism, and the American Indian politics of the 1930s.
Featuring artwork from the Spanish colonial, republican, and postrevolutionary periods of Cuban history, as well as the contemporary diaspora.
Examines connections and divergences between contemporary eco art, land art of the 1960s and 1970s, and the historical genre of landscape painting.
Explores the flowering of racial art rhetoric in criticism and history published in the 1920s and 1930s, and analyzes its underlying presence in contemporary discussions of artists of color.
Led by Rivera, these painters used murals as a vehicle to reject the economic and political status quo and to give visible form to labor and radical ideologies, including Communism.
The first English-language anthology of writings on Latin American modern art of the twentieth century.
In Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Chile and Argentina, artists are producing radical, unruly or even iconoclastic work that resists state violence, social conformity and the commodification of art.
As one of the most innovative and enlightened painters of the early Italian Renaissance, Piero della Francesca brought space, luminosity, and unparalleled subtlety to painting.
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