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Search the 'Books & More' tab on the library website using keywords in the title, author, or subject, or the ISBN.
Ebooks can be accessed through links under the 'Online Access' section of the page.
Physical books are arranged using Library of Congress classification. The New School students can borrow or request materials to pick up at any of our locations:
View Access and Borrowing info and renew books (My Account) on the library website. Most books can be borrowed for 16 weeks and renewed twice.
Use Consortium Libraries (NYU, Cooper Union, New York School of Interior Design) with your New School ID card.
Three ways to find related books:
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WorldCat: Search WorldCat, a union catalog of library holdings around the world.
Request a Purchase of any books that you need for your research.
The New School subscribes to several E-book Databases. Full-text searching is possible when searching within individual ebook databases.
Google Books can be used as a tool to search inside books. Locate books using our library catalog.
Most books on the visual arts are located at the University Center library. Art books are organized according to medium, geography, and country of origin of artists. There are also sections for eras and movements, materials and techniques, and subjects in art (such as portraiture and nudes).
Please see the Photography Research Guide for a list of call numbers in that section.
Books on new media art, installation art, and video art are located in various sections and are best located using the library catalog.
General Histories, Textbooks | N5300 | ND1130 | |
Ancient (Greek, Roman, Egyptian) Medieval Gothic Renaissance, (Italian) Baroque 17th and 18th Centuries Modern 19th Century |
N5310 N5950 N6310 N6370, N6915 N6410 N6410-6425 N6447, N6490 N6450-6465 |
ND60-139 ND140-189 ND140-189 ND140-189, ND615 ND140-189 ND190-196 ND190-196 |
NB60 NB90-164 NB170-180 NB190-193 NB190-193 NB190-193 NB197 |
20th Century | N6490 | NB198 | |
Art Movements (19th/20th Century) |
N6465, N6494 | ND190-196 | |
21st Century | N6496-6498 |
Art | Painting | Sculpture | |
African |
N7380 | NB1080 | |
Americas |
N6501 |
ND205 |
NB200 NB300s NB300s |
American Artists | N6537 | ND237 | NB237 |
Asian Chinese Art, Artists Indian Japanese Art, Artists Korean Persian Southeast Asian |
N7260 N7340, N7349 N7301 N7350, N7359 N7311 |
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NB1001 NB1050 |
Australian, Oceanic Aboriginal |
N7400, N7410 | ND1101 |
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European Austrian Belgian British Art, Artists Czech Dutch/Flemish Art, Artists French Art, Artists German Art, Artists Italian Art, Artists Russian Art, Artists Scandinavian Artists Spanish Art, Artists Swiss Artists |
N6750 N6811 N6761, N6797 N6834 N6925, N6953 N6847, N6853 N6868 N6911, N6923 N6981, N6997,9 N7073 N7101, N7113 N7153 |
ND450 ND511 ND673 ND461, ND497 ND625, ND653 ND541, ND 553 ND562, ND588 ND611, ND623 ND681 ND707 ND801, ND813 |
NB463, NB497 NB543, NB553 NB561, NB588 NB611, NB623 |
Jewish | N7415 |
General Artists' Manuals | N7340 |
Drawing Anatomy Perspective Portraits |
NC650, NC845 NC760 NC750 NC765 |
Painting Color Landscapes Portraits Still Life |
ND1500 ND1280, ND1488 ND1340 ND1301 ND1390 |
Sculpture | NB1170 |
Subjects in Art Nude Portraits Women |
N7570-7572 N7575 N7630 |
There are many new initiatives to digitize historical art books and to offer new publications -- including exhibition catalogs and scholarly monographs -- in digital format. Public domain works can be found by searching the Web.
Most of The New School's artists' books are part of our Special Collections. Visit the Special Collections page for more information about finding and using artists’ books.
A small selection of artists’ books found in The New School’s University Center Library, identified by call number N 7433.4, are not Special Collections. Please see our FAQ for more information about using artists' books.
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Digitized artists' books in JSTOR may only include the cover and a limited amount of pages.