Basic research guide for western art history instruction sessions.

1. Art History Resource Guide
Keywords for searching:
art history
names for movements: expressionism
artist names: gauguin
media: sculpture
terms: chiaroscuro
objects: triptych
subjects: holofernes
Basic reference materials:
• The Art Atlas N5300 .A77 2008
• Atlas of Western Art History: Artists, Sites, G1046 .E64 S7 1994
and Movements from Ancient Greece to the Modern Age
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and N33 .C59 2003
Artists
• Critical Terms for Art History N34 .C75 2003
• From Abacus to Zeus: A Handbook of Art N33 .P5 2001
History
• Guide to the Literature of Art History 2 Z5931 .M374 2005
• -Isms: Understanding Art N33 .L5 2004
• The Oxford Dictionary of Art N33 .O93 2004
• Thinking and Writing About Art History N380 .R438 2004
Databases:
Art Full Text and Art Retrospective – Index to articles in journals
ArtBibliographies Modern – Index to books, exhibition catalogues, and
articles in journals covering 19th
century to present

2. (BHA) Bibliography of the History of Art – Index to books, exhibition
catalogues, and articles in journals covering late antiquity to present
JSTOR – Scholarly journal access, with images from ARTstor
Lexis Nexis – Current news articles
Online:
Artcyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
An index of online museums and image archives.
Art History Resources on the Web
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks4.html
Created by Professor of Art History Christopher Witcombe from Sweet Briar
College and updated frequently.
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Great for images and background
information. Also links to current and past museum exhibitions.
Mother of All Art & Art History Pages
http://www.art-design.umich.edu/mother/
Sponsored by the School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. Sites
are grouped by subject.
Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
http://www.siris.si.edu/
Search the Smithsonian collections, databases, and libraries
Web Gallery of Art
http://www.wga.hu/index1.html
Hosted by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. An online searchable
database of European painting from the 12th
-19th
centuries.