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Subject Guides
Art & Art History Resources |
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Selected
Books in the Library
The Library's online catalog is available by following the
link to our
catalog. To locate art or art history related
resources within the Library, try subject or title searches with the
following terms:
- Art
- Commercial art
- Drawing
- Painting
- (Names of specific
artists)
A few of the books in the Library's collection
that relate to art and art history are listed below.
- Art of the Western World
(REF NC5300 .C715 1989) - Garnder's Art
Through The Ages
(REF N5300 .G5 2001) - The
Hand Behind the Mouse
(NC975.5 .I95 I95 2001)
- History of Modern Art
(N6490
.A76 1985) - In Defiance of Painting:
Cubism, Futurism, and the Invention of Collage
(N6494 .C6 P6 1992) - Michelangelo: The
Complete Sculpture, Painting, and Architecture
(NB623 .B9 W35 1998)
Locating Articles in the Library
Online
Databases
Don't forget to go to the many online databases,
which provide access to articles from journals, magazines, and
newspapers. Some of these articles are provided in full-text, but
others are not. The databases also act as a cumulative index to many of
the journals/magazines available in the Library. COLLEGE ACCESS ONLY
Resources on the Web
Art History Resources on the Web
Another subject guide, this page is created and maintained by a
professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College in Sweet Briar, VA. Color, Contrast
& Dimension in News Design
An online,
interactive version of Pegie Stark Adam's book by the same title, this
site uses exercises, graphic design samples, and malleable
illustrations of art masterpieces to explain color theory and the
emotional and physical impacts that color, proportion, and contrast
have upon a viewer.
Requires Macromedia Flash player. Digital Archive of
Art
This archive is a collection of images of
paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries and sculpture from the
ancient Greek period, the Renaissance, and the 19th and 20th
centuries. Artists represented include Michelangelo, Monet,
Manet, Renoir, Degas, Gauguin, Seraunt, Van Gogh, Rodin, Daumier,
Munch, Arp, Duchamp, Ernst, and others. The site is created
and maintained by a professor in the Fine Arts Department at Boston
College. ExCalendar.net ~link may
be broken~
A calendar of exhibitions at the world's
leading art museums (members of the Art Museum Network). The
calendar is searchable by artist's name, exhibition title, city,
keyword or museum name. Mother of All Art
and Art History Links Pages
"Mother" is a subject
guide developed by the School of Art & Design at the University
of Michigan. Portfolio Project
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections of the Princeton
University Library has provided a collection of the most frequently
requested items for reproduction, including images of European and
American Graphic Arts and graphic Americana. Smithsonian: Archives of American Art
Although it includes a lot of good information and images, this is the
site of the Smithsonian's physical Archives of American Art. Don't
expect everything the Archive owns to be available for download, but
you can get research help from the Archivists by e-mailing them
reference questions, or requesting interlibrary loan of materials. Virtual Library of
Museums pages
Published by Stanford University,
this site is a directory of museums' Web sites. Virtual Reference
Collection: Art Resources
This page provides a set
of links compiled by the Library at Brown University in Providence, RI.
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