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About Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Interdisciplinary down to an art

The Bloomsbury Visual Arts digital hub brings Bloomsbury’s leading visual arts resources together onto one cross-searchable platform to support an interdisciplinary approach to studies, teaching, and research across architecture, design, gaming, visual arts, and more. DRM-free chapters, articles, and images from different collections become easily discoverable and fit together seamlessly thanks to our unique taxonomy.

“An essential, top-tier resource for the study and practice of the visual arts across all areas.”
Library Journal. More reviews and awards

Collections

The Bloomsbury Visual Arts hub comprises Bloomsbury Design Library, Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts, Bloomsbury International Encyclopedia of Surrealism and Bloomsbury Art Markets, an authoritative international guide for art trade research, as well as our award-winning Bloomsbury Architecture Library and Architecture Design and Practice Online.

It is also home to the Animation Practice, Applied Gaming, Art, Race and Gender, Ceramics, Design Studies, Global and Regional Art, Packt Game Development and Animation, Photography, and Printmaking collections, with more coming soon.

Where to start

Benefits for users

  • Discover interdisciplinary content across closely connected fields seamlessly - ideal for research and learning within related courses or modules.
  • Collections span textbooks, reference, primary material, monographs, and multimedia to offer a diverse, engaging and authoritative study and research environment.
  • Explore landing pages for each individual resource, or curated thematic pages based on popular searches and course titles, all underpinned by the overarching taxonomy.
  • Search and navigate by common themes such as artistic movements spanning architecture, interiors, visual culture and craft.
  • Create a personal account to save books, chapters, articles, or other items to view later; organise saved items into folders; email and export citations; save searches and set up search alerts – for seamless navigation to relevant content on each login.
  • Related Content links on every content page make it easy to discover and connect pertinent material.
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Teaching and learning resources
Our exclusive and specially-commissioned research and learning tools are designed with teachers, students, and researchers in mind. They include:
Bibliographic Guides, Lesson Plans, Subject Guides and more.