Research

These materials are useful as you prepare your "Exposé sur l'art visuel".  Some of the materials are online others are in print.  Using the call #s listed as a general guideline, search the library's print Reference Collection for additional resource materials.

• Grove Art Online includes articles on thousands of artists.
• Oxford Reference Books Online: Art Section includes online access to several art reference books.
• Art Information and the Internet: How to Find It, How to Use It  N59.I66 1999
• International Dictionary of Art & Artists (2 vols.)  N40.I55 1990
• Contemporary Artists (2 vols.)  N6490.C6567 2002
• Art in Theory 1648-1815: An Anthology of Changing Ideas  N6420.A78 2000
• Art in Theory 1815-1900: An Anthology of Changing Ideas  N6450>A779 1998
• Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas  N6490.A7167 2003

Use CONSORT and OhioLINK to find books for your presentation and accompanying written assignment.  Subject searches such as "surrealism" work well for this assignment as well as a subject search on your chosen artist.  Also, look for artist exhibition catalogs which often include essays and a bibliography.  Finally, use a "KEYWORD" search to find materials that may be included within a book. 

Look for materials for this class by searching in both specialized and general databases.  Academic Search Complete is a general database.  The others in the list are discipline and/or subject specific.

• Academic Search Complete  This collection provides full-text periodical coverage for nearly all academic areas of study from 1984-. It is updated daily.
• Contemporary Artists' Index.
• Art Full Text  This is the major index for periodical articles and other publications in the field of art.
• ArtSTOR  Use this database to find images such as the one on this class web page. ARTstor is a digital library that offers collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library's initial content includes approximately 500,000 images.