vFind Books

Here is a sampling of subject headings which may be used to search COAST. For a more complete list of headings relevant to ART, consult the Library of Congress Subject Headings volumes located in Reference or near the COAST computers in the lobby of the Library. Click on any of the following subjects now to retrieve records from COAST.   

• Art, Greek
• Art--Greece
• Dissident Art
• Drawings, Italian
• Flowers in Art
• Goya, Francisco
• Impressionism (Art)
• Painting, Baroque
• Painting, Egyptian
• Performance Art
• Perspective
• Public Art
• Sculpture, French
• Women in Art

vUse Bibliographies to Find Books

Subject bibliographies are books that offer an organized, comprehensive list of published and unpublished materials on a specific subject.  Bibliographies are useful when you are searching a general topic and need to find a lot of information.  Search COAST by LC subject heading with the added word -- Bibliography or do a keyword search with the word Bibliography and your search term. A few examples of helpful bibliographies are listed below:

• American ceramics before 1930: A bibliography
  NK4005 .W43
• American graphic design: A guide to the literature 
  NC998.5.A1 T46 1992 
• Art nouveau: An annotated bibliography 
  N6465.A7 K4 1977 
• Black artists in the United States: An annotated bibliography of books, articles, and dissertations on Black artists, 1779-1979
  REF N6538.N5 D38
• Latin American women artists, Kahlo and look who else: A selective, annotated bibliography
  REF N6502.5 .P837 1996
• Tribal and ethnic art
  N5311 .T74 1982
• The women impressionists: A sourcebook
  REF N6847.5.I4 C435 2000

vElectronic Reference Sources

Art Abstracts and Art Index Retrospective

Citations and abstracts from nearly 300 journals worldwide about all aspects of art and artists; includes articles published 1984 to date. Art Index Retrospective covers 1929-1983.

Anthropology Plus

Worldwide coverage of the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and related interdisciplinary studies. 1880 to present.

BHA -- Bibliography of the History of Art

A web-based index to over 2500 journals, books, conference proceedings, exhibition catalogs, and other sources dealing with Western Art from 4th century B.C. to present.

Getty Research Tools

A collection of databases offered by the Getty Research Institute relating to the visual arts, architecture, and related fields. Databases include: Photo Study Collection Database, Provenance Index Databases (art collecting), and Vocabulary Databases.

Grove Art Online 

Grove Art Online contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts, painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography from prehistory to the present day. Ongoing updates.

Humanities Abstracts

More than 400 periodicals on archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature from 1984 to date.

IIDA Knowledge Center

This is the research database of the International Interior Design Association. Includes articles about interior design, conference papers, industry reports and more. It also includes a calendar of interior design-related events.

In addition, there are many interdisciplinary databases with information on art. Choose Find Articles and try some of the databases in such categories as Ethnic Studies, Women's Studies and Humanities.

vDictionaries, Encyclopedias and Guides

• Art speak: A guide to contemporary ideas, movements, and buzzwords - REF N6490 .A87 1997
• Artists in California, 1786-1940 - REF N6530 .C2 H8 2002
• Artwords: A glossary of contemporary art theory - N71 .P32 1997
• Contemporary artists - N6490 .C6567
• Dictionary of Chinese and Japanese art - REF N7340 .M78 1981
• Dictionary of women artists - N8354 .D53 1997
• Encyclopedia of world art - REF N31 .E533
• Index to artistic biography - REF N40 .H38
• North American women artists of the twentieth century: A biographical dictionary - REF N6503 . N67 1995
• Oxford companion to art - REF N33 .O9
• Oxford companion to Christian art and architecture - REF N7830 .M87 1996 
• Oxford dictionary of art - REF N33 .O93 2001
• St. James guide to black artists - REF N40 .S78 1997
• St. James guide to native North American artists - E98 .A7 S8 1998
• Twentieth-century artists on art: An index to writings, statements, and interviews by artists, architects, and designers - 
  REF NX456 .R59 1996
• Who was who in American art, 1564-1975: 400 years of artists in America - N6536 .W56 1999
• Who's who in American art - N6536 W5
• Women artists in the United States: A selective bibliography and resource guide on the fine and decorative arts, 1750-1986 -
  REF N6536 .C342 1990

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