Art in Library Special Collections

LSC is committed to remediating harmful description by creating and implementing an anti-oppressive approach to discovery and access. We aim to:

• Be clear about what we know, how we know it, and what we don't know
• Embrace baseline description as a tool to improve the discoverability of all our materials
• Demonstrate an understanding that description is a continuous and necessarily iterative endeavor

Read more about our past and current approaches to description in Toward Ethical and Inclusive Descriptive Practices in UCLA Library Special Collections.

David Hockney's colored pencil sketch, Kitaj in his Studio, 1974.

UCLA Library Special Collections has built in-depth collections that reflect trends in arts and architecture in the Los Angeles region, especially as the metropolitan area grew during the Modernist movement. The current emphasis is on the late 1960s to the present, a period of vital political and artistic change in L.A. art galleries, museums, and art education.

• Prominent Los Angeles Teachers of Art, Gallery Owners, and Curators
• Architecture and Landscape Architecture-- See Architecture and Landscape Architecture guide
• Arts and Artists, including painters, sculptors, printmakers, and conceptual artists
• Artists' Books– See Printing and Publishing guide section on Artists' Books
• Graphic Design and Designers
• Photography-- See Photography guide