Art History

Background Information
Books & Videos Available at the Landmark College Library
Article Databases
Websites

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Find Background Information

• These reference works include overviews of art history, biographies of artists, and the histories of specific artistic movements or regional traditions.
• Ask a librarian for others.

Reference area (first floor)

• Art in the Modern Era: A Guide to Styles, Schools & Movements 1860 to the Present — 709.0403 DEM
  

• Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists — 709.22 B615 v. 1-4
  

• Design: Intelligence Made Visible — 745 B359D
  

• Encyclopedia of American Art before 1914 — 709.7303 ENCN
  

• Encyclopedia of Italian Renaissance and Mannerist Art — 709.4503 ENC v. 1-2
  

• Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Art — 709.803 ENC
  

• Facts on File Encyclopedia of Art — 703 F142 v. 1-5
  

• Understanding Art: A Reference Guide to Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque Periods — 709.2 UND v. 1-2

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Find Books & Videos at the Landmark College Library

• Search WebCat to locate any of the hundreds of other books and videos on artistic movements and specific artists.
• Browse the Landmark College Library art collection by looking in the second floor stacks in the 700's in both the book and video sections.

Videos in our collection (second floor):

• Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance (VHS) — 709.0396073 AGA

• American Photography: A Century of Images (VHS) — 770.972 AME discs 1-3

• American Visions (VHS) — 709.73 discs 1-8

• Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century (DVD) — 709.05 A784 discs 1-4

• Art of the Western World (VHS) — 709 ART discs 1-9

• Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image (DVD) — 791.4361 P751 discs 1-9

• Sister Wendy's Story of Painting (VHS) — 759 SIS, 1997 v. 1-5

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Find Articles

Academic Search Premier

• Search for articles from more than one hundred scholarly journals on art history and related subjects. 
  

Britannica Online

• Search for biographies and samples of the works of specific artists, using Last name, First name. Example: Picasso, Pablo.
• Use the name of artistic movements to get overviews with photographs of representative works.

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Websites

These websites provide access to images of works of art with background information on the artists and their cultures and time periods.

 

The Art Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/

• Search for annotated photographs of art works from the museum collection.
  
• View overviews and specific art works from temporary and permanent exhibits.

 

FAMSF: Fine Art Museums of San Francisco

http://www.thinker.org/

• View any of 75,000 images using FAMSF's search engine, called Thinker.
• Use Advanced Search to look for images using keyword, artist, country, or period.

 

J. Paul Getty Museum

http://www.getty.edu/museum/

• Searched the Getty Museum Collection on the Web by subject, artist, or medium.
• Use the Exhibitions Overview option for sample images and descriptive text.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp

• Search for images and related information within Special Exhibitions, Timeline of Art History, and the overall Collection.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
http://www.moma.org/collection/search.php

• Search thousands of images in MoMA's Architecture and Design, Drawings, Painting and Sculpture, Photography, Prints and Illustrated Books, Film, and Media collections.

The Perseus Project (from Tufts University)

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/art&arch.html

• Search for images and descriptions from among over 30,000 works of ancient art and architecture.