KU Library Catalog
- KU CatalogSearch collections available in all library locations at the Univ. of Kansas
Other Library Catalogs
- WorldCat This link opens in a new windowIncludes millions of records describing items owned by OCLC member libraries, including the KU Libraries.
- Catalog for the Spencer Art Library at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of ArtLocated in Kansas City, MO, this art research library is open to the public but must be used on-site. The hours are listed on the library website.
- Lawrence Public Library in Lawrence, KSLocated at 7th & Vermont, this public library has a good art collection.
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
- Oxford art online This link opens in a new windowGateway to the Grove Art Online and other Oxford art reference resources with more than 23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, and 40,000 image links.
- Tate Guide to Modern Art Terms byA clear and reliable guide, with more than 450 pithy entries on the full range of international modern and contemporary art. Spanning the dawn of Impressionism to the digital age, every term—whether a theme, movement, medium, or technique—is defined with clarity and precision.
- The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms byOver 2000 entries covering painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, the decorative, applied and graphic arts from all periods throughout the world up to the present day plus a table of the dynasties of Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, China, India and Japan.
Starting Points
- Art full text This link opens in a new windowContains indexing and abstracting dating from 1984 for more than 600 periodicals and 13,000 dissertations on the subjects of art, architecture, urban planning, & design; journals are primarily but not exclusively English-language; full-text articles from over 300 journals dating from 1995; also indexes nearly 200,000 art reproductions that appear as illustrations for articles or advertisements. Can be combined with Art Index Retrospective to extend coverage to 1929.
- ARTbibliographies modern This link opens in a new windowCitations and abstracts for 20th and 21st century art and artists plus photography since its invention in 1839; covers journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews; coverage from 1974.
- Bibliography of the history of art This link opens in a new windowCitations with abstracts on a range of art; ceased in 2008.
- Oxford art online This link opens in a new windowAn encyclopedia of art information and a good starting point for research. Allows simultaneous searching of Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Content includes biographies, subject entries, bibliographies, images, and learning resources. Articles are signed by recognized scholars.
Overviews
Look! Art History Fundamentals by Call Number: N 345.D26 20103rd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, c2010. Introduces the methodologies of art history; discusses basic art historical practices, such as visual and contextual analysis, and provides guidelines for writing papers and taking examinations in art history.
History of Art by Call Number: N380 .P56 20145th ed. London: Routledge, 2014. Introduces students to the practices, challenges, questions and writings encountered in studying Art History.
Learning to Look at Sculpture by Call Number: NB1142.5 .A29 2014London: Routledge, 2014. A guide to the study and understanding of three dimensional art. Explores Western sculpture with over 200 images of work from antiquity through to the present day.
Learning to Look at Paintings by Call Number: ND1143 .A38 2009London; New York: Routledge, 2009. 2nd ed. Composition, space, form, tone, color, subject-matter, and other pictorial elements of the plastic arts are considered and their interrelationships explained in this handy introduction, with over 90 well-chosen illustrations.
Web Directories
Websites organized by category and subcategory assembled by specialists in the subject field.
- Art History Resources on the WebDirectory of art history links organized by time period and location. Extensive list of links to museums and galleries section organized by country.
- Voice of the ShuttleDirectory of websites related to the Humanities with divisions such as Architecture Art (Modern & Contemporary), Art History, etc.
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