Using Catalogs
Use the WSU Stewart
Library Catalog to find location and availability of books
and other media in Stewart Library. Use WorldCat
for listings of exhibition catalogs, books and media
in many other library catalogs. For
home or off campus access please use your WSU Login.
- Books on the visual arts are generally located within
the call number N in the Reference area and General Collection.
- Books on crafts, photography and the technology relating to
art are located in the T's in the Reference area and General
Collection
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: Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, etc.
- artistic style: impressionism, gothic, etc.
- time period: art, modern--20th century
or art, baroque--Italy, etc.
- artistic medium: painting, sculpture, drawing, etc.
- nationality/culture: art, buddhist, art, german;
painting, american, etc.
- genre: landscape painting; portrait painting, etc.
- movement: impressionism, expressionism, futurism, surrealism,
etc.
- theory: modernism, feminism, marxism, 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.
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
Finding
Images
Use the library catalog
to find images in books. The library has some larger art posters
and reproductions in the Curriculum Picture Collection in the
library's lower level.
Use the following resources
to find images on the Web
- 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 (e.g. landscape painters)
- Nationality
- Name, alphabetically
- 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.
- Grove Dictionary
of Art - 10,000 links to color images. Use
your WSU username and password for off-campus access. Our subscription allows for only 3 simultaneous users.
- Google Image Search
- Use this popular search engine to find publicly available Web
images on any subject.
- Corbis - Large collection
of popular/commercial photographic images. Register to access some freely available images.
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. For
home or off campus access please use your WSU Login.
- Artist's Market - Stewart Library, Middle level, REF
N8600.A76 (annual)
- ArtLex - an online dictionary
of art terminology - http://www.artlex.com/
- Dictionary of Art (Great resource! 34 volumes) - Stewart
Library, REFERENCE N31.D5 1996 - Reference table 3A
- Encyclopedia of World Art - Stewart Library, REFERENCE
N31.E533
-
Getty
Vocabulary Databases - The Getty Research Institute's Vocabulary
Databases (the Art & Architecture Thesaurus ®,
the Union List of Artist Names ®, and the Getty
Thesaurus of Geographic Names) contain terminology and
other information about the visual arts, architecture, artists,
and geographic places.
- 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 username and password for off-campus access. Limited
to 3 simultaneous WSU users.
- Metropolitan
Museum of Art Timeline of Art History - Excellent comprehensive
timeline with maps and illustrations.
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. For
home or off campus access please use your WSU Login.
Browsing Current Periodicals
Current magazines and
journals can be browsed in the Current Periodicals Area, in the
"N" section on the Middle level. Bound volumes of older
issues are found upstairs in the periodicals stacks. Selected
titles include:
| American Artist |
N1.A512 |
| Art Bulletin |
N1.A782 |
| ArtForum |
N1.A786 |
| Art News |
N1.A785 |
| Aperture |
TR1.A641 |
| Modernism/Modernity |
Online On Campus |
| Studies in Art Education |
N1.S932 |
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, art mediums, styles, periods, etc.
Meta Sites
Art History Sites
-
Art
History Resource Centre - From Concordia University
in Canada, this site includes newsgroups, mailing lists, library
catalogs, article indexes, online collections, and links on
citing sources.
- Art History
Resources on the Web - Directory of art history resources,
maintained by Chris Witcombe, Sweet Briar College, Virginia. Resources
are subdivided by time period.
Asian Art Sites
- Asian Historical
Architecture - Images of historical architecture in
Afghanistan, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, the two Koreas, Laos,
Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, and Thailand.
- Islamic Arts and Architecture
(IAAO) is a non-profit organization dedicated to
providing information on arts and architecture.
- Southeast
Asian Archive - University of California, Irvine site providing
online access to the Southeast Asian Archive Newsletterand links
for Cambodian, Hmong, Lao, and Vietnamese materials.
Selected Museum Sites
Media
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