Periods of time or schools in art history. Types of art. Themes and uses of art works, i.e. iconography. Problems in art history. Names of places are often used as subdivisions or qualifiers for other subject headings.
Subject headings range from general to specific.
Another system for finding books is subject searching of the OCLC database, a union catalog of many library holdings. Ask about this at this at the Information Desk. Titles found in these sources can often be obtained through interlibrary loan if they are not found in the Crumb Library. Reference Books for Art History 1. These guides attempt to organize the published information in art history, and suggest frutiful searching methods.