Journal Articles
A multidisciplinary database with
full-text articles. You can find scholarly articles by checking the box to the left of the option,
"Scholarly (Peer-Reviewed) Journals". Academic Search Premier contains many major peer-reviewed
journals in Art, including: Art Bulletin, Art History, Art in America, Art Journal,
Art Monthly, and many others.
Identifying Books in the
library catalog
To find items on a specific aspect of Art topics,
do a Word search for Art and keywords related to your topic. For example:
Art and impressionism Art and modernism
Art and rococo
Reference Books
Available online through
Oxford
Reference Online
The Oxford Dictionary of Art.
Ed. Ian Chilvers. Oxford University Press, 2004. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press.
The Oxford Dictionary of Art is the unrivalled one-volume
guide to the art of the Western world. It provides a careful balance of fact and critical appraisal,
ranging across painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts from classical times to the present.
The Oxford Companion to Western Art.
Ed. Hugh Brigstocke. Oxford University Press, 2001. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press.
The Oxford Companion to Western Art, written by over 100
distinguished art historians and specialists, provides in-depth coverage of Westrern Art with entries on
artists and their works, styles and movements, art forms and art terms, combined with more modern
methodologies, focused on patronage, taste, theory, and criticism, and the scientific examination of
materials and techniques.
The Smithsonian: Archives of American Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(after
clicking on library catalog link, you will be directed to the CCA Library
catalog page)
Web Sites
With over 16 million items, 5,000 collections, and 2,000 oral histories,
the
Archives is the world’s largest and most widely used resource on the history of art in America.
A chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of
the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection a
chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as
illustrated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection.