Finding
Images
Use the following resources
to find sculpture images on the Web
- ARTstor - ARTstor is a digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. Collections comprise contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates. For WSU student and faculty use only.
- Google Image Search
- Use this popular search engine to find publicly available Web
images on any subject.
- Askart.com
- AICT (Art Images
for College Teaching) - image exchange resource for the educational
community
- Grove Dictionary
of Art - 10,000 links to color images. Use
your WSU student ID number for off-campus access.
- Corbis - Large collection
of popular/commercial photographic images.
- Artcyclopedia - online
directory of museum art on the Web. Retrieve a list of links
to photographs of artists works at museums worldwide - http://artcyclopedia.com/.
Search by:
- Movement (e.g. Pop Art, Impressionism) by
- Medium (e.g. sculptors, illustrators)
- Subject
- Nationality
- Name, alphabetically
Web
Resources
Here are some WWW sites
to get you started. Most of these will take you to other links,
so explore! Use the Yahoo and
Google directories
to find appropriate catagories for selected lists of sites on
artists, museums, time periods, etc.
Sculpture
- Artchive
- AskArt.com - a comprehensive
database about of over 23,000 North American artists, browse by
name or category
- Google
Directory: Sculpture
- Google
Directory: Installation Art
- Google
Directory: Performance Art
- International Directory
of Sculpture Parks - not comprehensive, but many good and
interesting links to world wide pieces of public art
- Sculpture: International
Sculpture Center - The International Sculpture Center (ISC)
considers itself THE source of information on contemporary sculpture.
This site contains selected articles and archived table of contents
of Sculpture Magazine back to 1996/7. One of their major projects
is the expansion of ISC's
Sculpture Parks and Gardens Directory.
- Voice of the Shuttle: Art
- art, archaeology, architecture, and design links
- Yahoo - Arts: - a hierarchical
directory to arts information (http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/). See
also Visual Arts/Sculpture/
- World Wide Arts Resources - access
to artists, museums, galleries, high quality art, art history,
arts education, antiques, dance, theater, classified ads, resume
postings, arts chats, etc.
Sculptors
Selected Museum Sites
Using Catalogs
Use the WSU Stewart
Library online
catalog to find location and availability of books and other
media in Stewart Library. Use World
Cat for listings of exhibition catalogs, books and media in
many other library catalogs.
- Books on the visual arts are generally located
within the call number N in the Reference and
General Collections on level two. Books on sculpture are
in the NB call number area.
- Books on metal working, carving and the technology
relating to art are located in the T's in
the Reference Collection on the middle level and General Collections
on the top level.
Subject Searching
in Catalogs and Databases
Using keywords of your
choosing or Library of Congress Subject Headings, it may
be helpful to search by:
- artist's name: Jenny Holzer, Robert Smithson, Andy
Goldsworthy, etc.
- artistic style: performance, site specific, installation
kinetic, etc.
- time period: contemporary, modern, sculpture --20th
century
- artistic medium: sculpture, mural, video installation,
ceramic sculpture, etc.
- nationality: earth art, german; video art, Korea, installation,
american, etc.
- movement: earthworks, land art, surrealism, etc.
Also note: Exhibition
Catalogs are often cataloged by artist, subject, and museum or
gallery and Museum Catalogs are usually cataloged by the name
of the museum.
From Bookstores
Order books online
from Amazon Books or Barnes and Noble. Also use
Books
in Print for book sources and some book reviews as needed.
Interlibrary Loan
If we do not own a particular
book or article you need, we will borrow it for you from another
library through Interlibrary
Loan.
Reference resources
include encyclopedias, dictionaries and other materials used to
"refer" to. Use these resources for facts, definitions
or for background information on a topic.
- Bridgeman
Art Library Archive - search by artist, work, theme, subject,
etc.
- ArtLex - an online dictionary
of art terminology -
- Dictionary of Art (Great resource! 34 volumes) - Stewart
Library, main level, REF N31.D5 1996 - Index table 3A middle
level
- Encyclopedia of World Art - Stewart Library reference
collection, main level, REF N31.E533
- Grove Dictionary
of Art - Start your research here with 41,000 articles, 720,000
index entries and 10,000 links to color images. Use
your WSU student ID number for off-campus access.
- xreferplus:
Art Includes the Bridgeman Art Library Archive,
requires WSU ID off-campus.
- Oxford
Reference Online: Art Use
your WSU student ID number for off-campus access.
- Metropolitan
Museum of Art Timeline of Art History - Excellent comprehensive
timeline with maps and illustrations.
- Sculpture Since 1945 - Stewart Library
reference collection, main level, REF NB198.C38 1998
Article Databases
To find articles on
your topic you need to use article databases, also known as periodical
indexes. Each database usually covers a group of subject related
journals. Search by subject or keyword in these indexes. Use
your WSU student ID number for off-campus access.
- Art Full Text
- Abstracts from 1994, full text from 1997 covering: Archaeology,
Architecture, Art History, Computers in Art, Crafts, Decorative
Arts, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design,
Interior Design, Landscape, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western
Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television,
Textiles, and Video. Use your
WSU student ID number for off-campus access.
- Academic
Search Premier - Citations and selected fulltext from journals
and magazines covering most subjects and fields. Citations from
1984, fulltext from 1985
- LexisNexis
Academic - full text newspapers from around the world
- ERIC - For articles
and other types of information on arts education issues. Articles
and citations from over 750 educational journals and related
documents. Selected full-text. 1967-present. Updated quarterly.
- Arts & Humanities
Search - Citations from many of the world's leading arts
and humanities journals. 1980 - present, updates weekly.
Browsing Current Periodicals
Current magazines and
journals can be browsed in the Current Periodicals Area, in the
"N" section on the Middlle level. Bound volumes of older
issues are found upstairs in the periodicals stacks. Use
Ejournals to see
if particular journals are available online. Selected titles include:
| Art in America (also
online) |
N1.A782 |
| Art Forum |
N1.A786 |
| Art News |
N1.A785 |
| Flash Art (also
online) |
N1.F585 |
| Metalsmith (also
online) |
NK1. M587 |
| Public Art Review (also
online) |
N1.P82 |
| Sculpture (also
online) |
NB1.S437 |
Online Journals
- Bomb Magazine
- Espace Sculpture
- http://www.espace-sculpture.com/
Canadian sculpture magazine with interviews, in-depth articles
and special issues related to various aspects of three dimensionality.
- New York
Times, Arts Section
- Sculpture magazine -
some full text articles available in archives
- Remember to use article
databases to find many full text articles online, particularly
Art Full Text.
- American Artist
- Art in America
- Flash Art
- Sculpture
- Sculpture Review
- Surface Design
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