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Subject Headings Used in Online Catalog


Art History: Movements & Styles
Revised 2003

Prepared by Loraine Baratti
& Janette Rozene, Associate Professor,  Cataloging Department

The Library uses Library of Congress Subject Headings in StyleCat   Online Catalog
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Subject Headings

 

Abstract expressionism

 

Aesthetic movement British art

 

Americana

 

Art

 

Art Computer network resources

 

Art Historiography

 

Art History

 

Art Sources

 

Art Abstract

 

Art brut

 

Art deco

 

Art nouveau

 

Arts and crafts movement

 

Arts and crafts movement Influence

 

Ashcan School of art

 

Assemblage Art

 

Avant-garde Aesthetics

 

Barbizon School

 

Bauhaus

 

Biedermeier Art

 

Blaue Reiter

 

Bloomsbury group

 

Body art

 

Brücke

 

Cave paintings

 

Christian art and symbolism

 

Classicism in art

 

Cobra Association

 

Colonial revival Art

 

Conceptual art

 

Concrete art

 

Constructivism Art

 

Cubism

 

Dadaism

 

De Stijl Art movement

 

Dissident art

 

Eclecticism in art

 

Eclecticism in architecture

 

Environment Art

 

Erotic art

 

Ethnic art

 

Exoticism in art

 

Expressionism, Art

 

Fauvism

 

Figurative art

 

Figurative painting

 

Figure painting

 

Folk art

 

Found objects Art

 

Functionalism in art

 

Futurism Art

 

Genre painting

 

Gothic revival Art

 

Graffiti

 

Happening Art

 

Hudson River school of landscape

 

painting

 

Idealism in art

 

Illumination of books and manuscripts

 

Illumination of books and manuscripts Celtic

 

Illumination of books and manuscripts Gothic

 

Illumination of books and manuscripts Medieval

 

 

See also: Books of Hours.
 

Illusion in art

 

Impressionism Art

 

Impressionist artists

 

Installations Art

 

Kinetic art

 

Kitsch

 

Landscape in art

 

Landscape painting

 

Letter-pictures

 

Ling-nan school of painting

 

Luminism Art

 

Magic realism Art

 

Mannerism Art

 

Marine painting

 

Memphis Group

 

Mewar painting

 

Minimal art

 

Minimal sculpture

 

Modernism Aesthetics

 

Modernism Art

 

Modernism Art Influence

 

Moscow school of icon painting

 

Multiple art

 

Narrative art

 

National Socialism and art

 

Naturalism in art

 

Neo-impressionism Art

 

Neoclassicism Art

 

Neoplasticism

 

New York school of art

 

Optical art

 

Orientalism in art

 

Orphism Art

 

Outsider art

 

Pahari painting

 

Performance art

 

Photo-realism

 

Plein-air painting

 

Pop art

 

Portrait painting

 

Portrait painting, Renaissance

 

Post-impressionism Art

 

Postmodernism

 

Pre-Raphaelites

 

Pre-Raphaelitism

 

Primitivism in art

 

Public art

 

Purism Art

 

Rajput painting

 

Realism in art

 

Renaissance

 

 

See also: Art Renaissance
 

Revival movements Art

 

Romanticism in art

 

Self-portraits

 

Social realism

 

Socialism and art

 

Social realism in art

 

Still-life in art

 

Still-life painting

 

Street art

 

Sublime The

 

Suprematism in art

 

Surrealism

 

Symbolism Art movement

 

Symbolism in art

 

Synchromism Art

 

Trompe l’oeil painting

 

Ukiyoe

 

Wiener Secession

 

Wiener Werkstätte

 

Words in art

   

ADDITIONAL SUBJECT HEADING TIPS

 

Art, Drawing, Painting or Sculpture may be subdivided by style, time period, or civilization, such as:

 

Ancient

 

Assyro-Baylonian

 

Baroque

 

Byzantine

 

Carolingian

 

Celtic

 

Classical

 

Colonial

 

Cretan

 

Early Christian

 

Early Renaissance

 

Edwardian

 

Egyptian

 

Etruscan

 

Gothic

 

Greco-Roman

 

Greek

 

Hellenistic

 

High Gothic

 

High Renaissance

 

Late Gothic

 

Medieval

 

Mesopotamia

 

Minoan

 

Modern

 

Modern 17th 18th centuries

 

Modern 19th century

 

Modern 20th century

 

Mycenaean

 

Oriental

 

Ottonian

 

Prehistoric

 

Primitive

 

Renaissance

 

Rococo

 

Roman

 

Romanesque

 

Spanish Colonial

 

Sumerian

 

Victorian

   
 

Art, Drawing, Painting or Sculpture may be subdivided by nationality or place such as:

 

American, Europe, European, France, French, United States

 

Art American refers to works of art by Americans whereas Art New York (N.Y.), or

 

Art United States refers to works of art by location

   
 

Art, Drawing, Painting or Sculpture may also be subdivided by religion such as:

 

Painting, Buddhist

 

Sculpture, Hindu

 

Art Zen

   
 

Headings such as:

 

Hindu symbolism

 

Islamic art and symbolism

 

Jewish art and symbolism

   
 

Related headings such as:

 

African American art

 

African American artists

 

African American painters

 

African American women artists

 

Art Black

 

Chinese American artists

 

Haida artists

 

Haida sculpture

 

Hispanic American art

 

Indian art

 

Navajo art

 

Navajo artists

 

Olmec art

 

Women artists

   
 

Search for artists’ names as authors and subject headings subdivided such as:

 

Picasso Pablo

 

Picasso Pablo Catalogues raisonnés

 

Picasso Pablo Exhibitions

 

Picasso Pablo Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.

 

Picasso Pablo Portraits

 

 

  Types of art objects such as:
 

Altarpieces

 

Antiquities

 

Catacombs

 

Classical antiquities

 

Figurines

 

Icons

 

Monuments

 

Mosaics

 

Mural painting and decoration

 

Santos Art

 

Screen painting, Japanese

 

Statues

 

Synagogue art

 

Vases Black-figured

 

Vases Greek

 

Vases Red-figured

   
 

Artworks or sites such as:

 

Elgin marbles

 

Picasso Pablo Guernica

 

Pompeii Extinct city

 

Versailles France

   
 

Related terms such as:

 

Aesthetics

 

Archaeology

 

Art criticism

 

Art museums

 

Feminism and art

 

Mythology

 

Symbolism

   
 

Subjects in art such as:

 

Christian saints in art

 

Costume in art

 

Fetishism in art

 

Grotesque in art

 

Human figure in art

 

Mythology, Classical in art

 

Nude in art

 

Saints Art

 

West US in art

 

Women in art

   
 

For design motifs: Decoration and ornament subdivided by style, such as:

 

Decoration and ornament Art deco

 

Decoration and ornament Art nouveau

   
 

Headings such as:

 

Art nouveau Architecture

   
 

Auction houses, museums, galleries, and exhibitions as subject and/or organization such as:

 

Armory Show 1913 New York NY

 

Exposition Internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes 1925 Paris France

 

Kennedy Gallery

 

Salon Exhibition

 

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

 

Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc

   
 

Art and historical events such as:

 

Communism and art

 

France History Revolution 1789-1799 Art and the revolution

 

Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-

 

Soviet Union History 1921 Art and the revolution

 

Spain History Civil War 1936-1939 Art and the war

 

World War 1914-1918 Art and the war

 

World War 1939-1945 Art and the war

 

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