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Art and Design (HE): Books

Books in the Library
 
Here you can some of the books the Library has to support you if you are studying the BA (Hons) Art and Design course. These can be found in the Hockney Library on the ground floor of the David Hockney building.
 
You can see some key books below, click on the cover to see the book in the Library Catalogue. You can search for books in the Library Catalogue by using the search box at the top of the screen or by following this link, findbooks.bradfordcollege.ac.uk.
 
You can read an e-book by clicking on its cover. You may need to enter your College login and password in first. For more information about e-book click on the e-book tab.
 
Open the Reading List Tab to find mend books for each module.  Choose the module to see the books in the Library.
 
These aren't all the books in the Library,  if you are interested in something else you can use the catalogue  to search  for what your are interested in. The books are arranged in the Library using Dewey Decimal Classification. This is a number sequence from 000-999, with each subject having it own number, so all the book on the same subject should be near each other.  See below to see the important numbers for Art
Key Books

Mythologies

Shelfmark:

 

194 BAR

Keywords

Shelfmark:

 

300.3 WIL

Liquid modernity

Shelfmark:

 

303.4 BAU

The equality illusion

Shelfmark:

 

305.42 BAN

Cultural studies

Shelfmark:

 

306 BAR

Visual Culture

Shelfmark:

 

306 HOW

The visual culture reader

Shelfmark:

 

700.103 VIS

Ways of seeing

Shelfmark:

 

701.15 WAY

Art & visual culture, 1850-2010

Shelfmark:

 

709.04 ART

Varieties of modernism

Shelfmark:

 

709.04 VAR

Louise Bourgeois

Shelfmark:

 

709.2 BOU

High Art lite

Shelfmark:

 

709.41 STA

Modelling and sculpting the figure

Shelfmark:

 

731.82/RUS

Daily practice of painting

Shelfmark:

 

759.092 RIC

Art photography

Shelfmark:

 

779 BAT

How to read a film

Shelfmark:

 

791.43015 MAN

Orientalism

Shelfmark:

 

950 SAI

Key E-Books
Read Art, Inc e-book
Read ArtSpeak e book
read Art and Resistance in Germany e-book
read Bauhaus Bodies e-book
read Counter-memorial aesthetics refugee histories and the politics of contemporary art e-book
read Expanded painting ontological aesthetics and the essence of colour e-book
read Foucault's philosophy of art a genealogy of modernity e-book
Installations and Experimental Printmaking
read The invention of taste e-book
read Mysteries of the rectangle e-book
read Key terms in philosophy of art e-book
read A Practical Guide to Arts-related Research e-book
Women in the picture
Shelfmarks
These are the main shelf marks for books on Art and Design. If you are unsure where to find a specific title you can always ask at the Library Information Desk or search the Library Catalogue.
Shelf Mark Subject
111.85 / 701.17 Aesthetics
305.3 - 305.4 Gender
306 Culture
700 Art
701 Art Theory
701.85 Colour Theory
704 Special topics in Art
709 Art History
709.04 Art in 20th Century
709.05 Art in 21st Century
709.2 Artists
720 Architecture
730 Sculpture
738 Ceramics
741 Graphic Arts
741.6 Graphic Design
746 Textiles
750 Painting
759.092 Painters
760 Printmaking
770 Photography
791.43 Film Studies
801.85 Critical Theory
FC DVD films
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