LibGuides: Art: Quick Start

Top Library Resource

Arts & Humanities Database
Are you looking for research from top scholarly journals and academic resources? The Arts is a good place to start. This database has a ton of information- articles, books, and reviews - and it is easy to become lost in it all. To help see the sources through the research, one can focus their search by topic or artist and possibly limit search results to "peer review."

Online Encyclopedias

Gale Virtual Reference Collection
Encyclopedias are credible academic sources you can use at every stage of research. Get an overview of an unfamiliar topic, find a bibliography of important sources and gather more in-depth information. Browse encyclopedias by subject area or keyword search.

Gale Virtual Reference Collection is part of Gale Group. It is available both on-campus and off-campus. Access GVRC from the Find Books and Articles section of the library homepage.

Online Books

eBook Academic Collection (EBSCO)
Books provide in-depth information on a topic. Not a finding a book on your topic? Use a book’s index to find pages that discuss your topic or scan the table of contents for book chapters. The best part about eBooks most support keyword searching so you can quickly identify the most important parts.

Look for this database at the bottom of the EBSCOhost Choose Database list

Art search terms

(Topic) -- In Art (Artist) -- Catalogues Raisonn'es (Artist) -- Art collection (Topic or Artist) -- Appreciation or Influence (Topic or Artist) -- Themes, motives

MLA citations

Journal Article

Reeve, Charles. "Andy Warhol's Death's and the Assembly Line Autobiography." Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 34.4 (2011): 657-75. Academic Search Premier. Web. 13, Feb. 2013.

Book

Arnold, Dana. Art History: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Print.

Website

The Getty. J. Paul Getty Trust, n.d. Web. 13, Feb. 2013.

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