Subject Guides: Art
Books: Use the Library Catalog
Academic Search Complete 
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals.
Art Full Text 
Includes full-text (1997-) and citations/abstracts of international, peer-selected publications—with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism.
Artbibliographies modern
Provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, with approximately 13,000 new entries being added each year. Entries date back as far as the late 1960s
Bibliography of the History of Art
Contains abstracts and indexes of current publications in the history of art, including scholarly journals, conferences, book, exhibition reviews, and exhibition catalogues. The records consist of bibliographic citations, abstracts, and indexing; abstracts may be in English or in French, index terms (descriptors) are in both English and French.
JSTOR
JSTOR preserves and archives the complete back runs of important scholarly journals. 1124 online academic journals. Date coverage varies from the 1890s to 2-5 years ago.
Artist biographies master index
Call Number: Reference N40 A78 1986 
McNeil, Barbara. Detroit: Galre, 1986.
Contemporary artists
Call Number: Reference N6490 C6582 2002
Prendergast, Sara. Detroit: St. James Press, 2002.
Dictionary of artists / Benezit.
Call Number: Reference N40 B4713 2006
Murray, Christopher John. Paris: Grund, 2006.
Art of writing about art
Call Number: Reference N7475 H83
Hudson, Suzanne and Nancy Noonan-Morrissey. Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2002
How to write art history
Call Number: Reference N380 D26
D'Alleva, Anne. London: Laurence King, 2006
Short guide to writing about art
Call Number: Reference N7476 B37 2003
Barnet, Sylvan. New York: Longman, 2003.
Writing about art
Call Number: Reference N7476 S29 2002
Sayre, Henry. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2002.
Oxford Art Online
Formerly Grove Art, this comprehensive online resource covers all aspects of the visual arts, from prehistory to the 1990s. Provides links to 41000 articles on the art and culture of Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific, with additional links to images and further information on musuem and other art-related websites.
Oxford Reference Online
Multi-part database of the online versions of seminal Oxford University Press texts. Browse an individual book or search them all!
ARTstor
Searchable database of more than 300,000 digital images and associated catalog data covering different periods and cultures, and documenting the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design.
Books: Use the Library Catalog
Academic Search Complete A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals.
Art Full Text Includes full-text (1997-) and citations/abstracts of international, peer-selected publications—with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism.
Artbibliographies modern Provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, with approximately 13,000 new entries being added each year. Entries date back as far as the late 1960s
Bibliography of the History of Art Contains abstracts and indexes of current publications in the history of art, including scholarly journals, conferences, book, exhibition reviews, and exhibition catalogues. The records consist of bibliographic citations, abstracts, and indexing; abstracts may be in English or in French, index terms (descriptors) are in both English and French.
JSTOR JSTOR preserves and archives the complete back runs of important scholarly journals. 1124 online academic journals. Date coverage varies from the 1890s to 2-5 years ago.
Artist biographies master index McNeil, Barbara. Detroit: Galre, 1986.
Call Number: Reference N40 A78 1986
Contemporary artists Prendergast, Sara. Detroit: St. James Press, 2002.
Call Number: Reference N6490 C6582 2002
Dictionary of artists / Benezit. Murray, Christopher John. Paris: Grund, 2006.
Call Number: Reference N40 B4713 2006
Art of writing about art Hudson, Suzanne and Nancy Noonan-Morrissey. Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2002
Call Number: Reference N7475 H83
How to write art history D'Alleva, Anne. London: Laurence King, 2006
Call Number: Reference N380 D26
Short guide to writing about art Barnet, Sylvan. New York: Longman, 2003.
Call Number: Reference N7476 B37 2003
Writing about art Sayre, Henry. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2002.
Call Number: Reference N7476 S29 2002
Oxford Art Online Formerly Grove Art, this comprehensive online resource covers all aspects of the visual arts, from prehistory to the 1990s. Provides links to 41000 articles on the art and culture of Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific, with additional links to images and further information on musuem and other art-related websites.
Oxford Reference Online Multi-part database of the online versions of seminal Oxford University Press texts. Browse an individual book or search them all!
ARTstor Searchable database of more than 300,000 digital images and associated catalog data covering different periods and cultures, and documenting the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design.
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