Skip to Main Content
chat now!

Art and Fine Arts

AFA, art, sculpture, painting, drawing, clay, ceramics, art history, photography, design

A few new arrivals!

Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography

This lavishly illustrated volume reevaluates and updates the story of 100 years of fashion photography. Written by experts in photography and fashion history, it includes more than 300 photographs by the genre's most famous practitioners.

The Complete Color Harmony: expert color information for professional results, Pantone Edition

"The only color guide a designer will ever need. Completely updated with Pantone colors and new text by Leatrice Eiseman, America's Color Guru"-- Provided by publisher.

A View from the South: The Narrative Art of Boyd Saunders

A View from the South: The Narrative Art of Boyd Saunders is the first comprehensive examination of the life and art of one of America's premier printmakers. In this celebration of an enduring and widely acclaimed career as an artist, Thomas Dewey II chronicles Saunders's work not only as a printmaker, but also as a painter, sculptor, illustrator, author, educator, amateur musician, and sometimes horseman. With great care Dewey exposes the common thread that runs through Saunders's visual expressions: his intriguing tales that reveal his heartfelt devotion to the people and places of the American South. [Amazon description]

First Exposures: Writings from the Beginning of Photography

An exact date for the invention of photography is evasive. Scientists and amateurs alike were working on a variety of photographic processes for much of the early nineteenth century. Thus most historians refer to the year 1839 as the first year of photography, not because the sensational new medium was invented then, but because that is the year it was introduced to the world.

Pecos River Style Rock Art: A Prehistoric Iconography

Pecos River style pictographs are one of the most complex forms of rock art worldwide. The dramatic prehistoric pictographs on the limestone overhangs of the lower Pecos and Devils Rivers in West Texas have been the subject of preservation and study since the 1930s, and dedicated research continues to this day. The medium is large-scale, polychrome pictographs in open rock shelter settings, emphasizing the animistic/shamanistic religion practiced by the local aboriginal peoples. Creating large-scale rock murals required intelligence, skill, and knowledge. These enigmatic images, some dating to 4,500 years ago and possibly earlier, depict strange, vaguely human and animal shapes and various geometric forms.

Some of the books you can check out...

Accessing Library Resources

Online resources can be accessed by logging into MySCC and clicking the Library tab on the left side of the dashboard.

On our website you will find online databases containing peer-reviewed articles, the library book catalog, and library resource guides (a collection of resources for your major, your classes, or your interests).

In order to check out books and DVDs

  • BRING your SCC ID card to Holt Library.
  • SELECT your items or ask us if you need help finding them.
  • Check out your items at the front desk. Students may check out up to 8 items at a time. Books check out for 1 month, DVDs for 1 week.

If you do not have a current SCC ID, visit the Cashier's office in Balsam first to get your student ID card.

DISTANCE LEARNERS 

  • We can deliver your materials to Macon or Swain campuses
  • ALLOW FOR DELIVERY TIME
  • You can return items the same way (see the receptionist at your SCC Center)

Need a book or article not available from Holt Library?

Fill out the Holt Library Interlibrary Loan form to request that we get the book or article for you from another library. Turnaround time is about a week to ten days. PLEASE PROVIDE:  Title, Author, ISBN (if possible), and any other information you can find on the item you want (year of publication, etc.)

Borrow from other libraries: Interlibrary Loan Service

If we don't own the book or article you need, we will borrow it for you from another library.

 

Please provide:

  • Title, Author, ISBN (if possible), and any other information you can find on the item you want (year of publication, etc.)
  • You must have a Holt Library account established and it must be in good standing (no fines outstanding, no overdue items).
  • Allow at least a week for your books to arrive on our campus
  • Current phone number and/or email address. For articles, we will deliver the article to your email account as soon as it is received.

You can: