Journal Articles

EBSCO Academic Search Premier

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
(after clicking on library catalog link, you will be directed to the CCA Library catalog page)

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 post modernism

• Art and bauhaus

• 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.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. Ed. Ian Chilvers. Oxford University Press, 1996. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press.

Based on the highly praised Oxford Dictionary of Art, this is an authoritative and up-to-date guide to Western Art from ancient Greece to the present day.

Web Sites

The Smithsonian: Archives of American Art
With over 16 million items, 5,000 collections, and 2,000 oral histories later, the Smithsonian Archives of American Art is the world’s largest and most widely used resource on the history of art in America. 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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.