Art Study Guide

This guide provides links to help you create a research strategy for Art. Knowing which options are available allows you to quickly select those most appropriate for your topic. To start your research, SCC Library Information Specialists suggest:

LINCC Online Catalog Subject Browse Lists linked to SCC Library art holdings, including the call number and availability for each.

• Browsing Guide to art call numbers
• Locate articles on art

Internet Links

LINCC Online Catalog Subject Browse Lists, which are linked to SCC Library holdings and include the call number and availability for each.

Locate Articles about Art in These suggested databases

On the Research Quick Start page, find "Locate Periodical Articles in Online Databases." Click LINCCWeb Online Databases and logon. Click the database name, and a new window will open. Then follow the searching directions in individual databases.

• Academic Search Premier (full text)
• Art (full text; Wilson; part of OmniFile Full-Text Mega Edition
• Arts and Humanities Search via FirstSearch (OCLC)
• OmniFile Full-Text Mega Edition (Wilson)

Art Internet Links

General

• Artcyclopedia (John Malyon)
• Artist's Bluebook (AskART.com)
• Dictionary of Art Historians (Lee Sorensen, Duke university Libraries)
• Dictionary of Visual Art (ArtLex)

Art History Links Index

American

• Archives of American Art (Smithsonian Institute)

Africa, Ancient

• African art (Detroit Institute of Art)
• African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning (University of Virginia) 
• The Ancient West African City of Benin, A.D. 1300-1897 (Smithsonian Institute)
• In the Presence of Spirits: African Art from the National Museum of Ethnology, Lisbon (Smithsonian Institute)

Chinese Art Before 1280

• China (World Art Treasures)
• Chinese Tang Pottery (McClung Museum, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
• Classical Paintings (Dr. M. L. Pei)
• Dragons in Ancient China (Dr. M. L. Pei)
• Portraits of the Emperor and Timeline of Dynasties (Dr. M. L. Pei)
• Taoism and the Arts of China (Asian Art Museum, San Fransisco)
• Treasures of the Chinese Scholar (McClung Museum, University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
• Treasures of the Chinese Scholar (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)

Greek

• Resources for Greek art and archaeology
  

Indian Art Before 1100

• Indus Valley rock art
• Islamic monuments (Kamat's Potpourri)
• Metal sculptures (Indian Heritage)
• Painting (Indian Heritage)
• Rock art heritage of India (Dr. Gautam Chatterjee)
• Rock-cut architecture (Indian Heritage)
• India (World Art Treasures)
• Timeline of Indian Art (Kamat's Potpourri)

Islamic

• Islamic art (622-900; About.com)
  
• Islamic art (Detroit Institute of Art)
• Islamic art introduction (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) 
• Islamic clip art (About.com)
• Islamic mosque (About.com)
• Islamic art collection (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Japanese Before 1392

• Japan (World Art Treasures)

Mega

• Art History 101 (About.com)
• ArtLex (Michael Delahunt)
• A Crash Course in Art History (About.com)
• Brain Juice
• FA: Virtual Art Museum 
• World Art Treasures (Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation)

Mesoamerican

• Maya (Richard Hooker)
• Maya adventure (Science Museum of Minnesota) 
• Maya civilization (Paula Giese)
  
• Maya civilization (Mexico Connect)
• Maya: Portraits of a People (McClung Museum, University of Tennessee, Knoxville) 
• Mayan (Encyclopedia Mythica) 
• Mayan art (Steven Davies) 
• MayaRuins.com (Barbara A. McKenzie)
• Meso-American Photo Archives (David R. Hixson)
• Mesoweb (Joel Skidmore) 
• Pre-Columbian Art (Detroit Institute of Art) 
• Maya Vases of the Classical Period (Justin Kerr)
• Teotihuacan (Arizona State University)

Native American

• ArtNatAm (Native-American artists)
• Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
• Heard Museum (Phoenix, Arizona) 
• National Museum of the American Indian
• Native American Art (Detroit Institute of Art) 
• Native-American Indian Art
• Poison's Icons
• Prehistoric Art of the Inuit (About.com)
• Pueblo Pottery of the Southwest (McClung Museum, University of Tennessee, Knoxville) 

Papua New Guinea

• Adorned: Traditional Jewelry and Body Decoration from Australia and the Pacific (Chris Boylan)
• New Guinea Artifacts (Art-Pacific.com)
• Niugini Arts Online Gallery

20th Century

• Art History: 20th Century
• Contemporary Visual Artists and the 20th Century 
• Gomez-Pena, Guillermo
• 20th Century Architecture and Modernism (About.com)
• WebMuseum, Paris: The 20th Century 

Journals

• Arts journal
• Asian arts
• Journals/Theses/Dissertations (About.com) 
  

Museums

• Artchive
• CGFA
• Museum of Modern Art (MoMa)
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Museum Sites Online (museum Computer Network)
• Museums: USA
• National Gallery of Art - The Collection (tour) 
• 24-Hour Museum
• Web Gallery of Art (Emil Kren and Daniel Marx)
• WWW Virtual Library Museums

Photography

• History of Photography (Dr. Robert Leggat)

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