Subject headings
To find items by subject in the library catalogue do an Advanced
search. Select Browse subject headings and
key in terms. For example:
- Art, Aboriginal Australian
- Art, Australian
- Art, Renaissance (or other periods, eg Medieval)
- Anatomy artistic
- Art metalwork
- Art modern 20th century
- Art psychology
- Artists
- Ceramic sculpture
- Ceramics
- Collage
- Color in art
- Conceptual art
- Cubism (or other movements e.g. Surrealism)
- Decorative arts
- Drawing technique
- Earthworks
- Fashion and art (search as a phrase)
- Glass art
- Glass painting
- Glassware
- Glazes
- Handicraft
- Human figure art
- Illustrations
- Installations art
- Jewelry, jewellery
- Modeling
- Modern painting 20th century
- Painting
- Perspective
- Portraits
- Postmodernism (art)
- Pottery Australia
- Printmakers
- Prints
- Sculptors
- Sculpture
- Semiotics and The arts (search as a phrase)
- Silvercraft
- Street art
- Textile design
- Women artists
Subheadings or extensions, for example, countries,
relevant century, type of publication (catalogs, exhibitions, bibliographies
etc) can be applied to subject headings to narrow the search. For example:
- Art, Aboriginal Australian - Exhibitions
- Art, Australian - 20th century
- Expressionism (Art) - Germany
- Motion pictures - Japan (for works on Japanese motion pictures)
- Photography, Artistic - Catalogs
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