Merner Pfeiffer Library: Research Guide - Art

Databases

• Academic OneFile – Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from academic journals in all subjects including the arts.  1980 to the present.
• ARTstor -   [requires library authentication] Thousands of images of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture worldwide.
• Oxford Art Online - Articles on the fine and decorative arts from prehistory through the present. Searchable images in galleries and museums around the world. Biographies of artists, architects, collectors, dealer, theorists, and writers.
• ProjectMuse – has full text for one art journal, Leonardo, since2001.  – ft
• Wilson Select Plus  contains indexing and full text for selected journals from Wilson's "Art Index" and "Humanities Index", among others. –  ft.

Web Sites

• Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian
• Art History Research Centre
• ArtLex Art Dictionary
• Athens Area Council for the Arts
• Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
• Himalayan Art
• Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga
• Knoxville Museum of Art
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• MoMA (Museum of Modern Art)
• Mother of All Art and Art History Links
• Nantahala Review - An online journal published by the Appalachian College Association featuring poetry, fiction, non-fiction, photography, and essays by regional writers
• National Gallery of Art: The Collection
• National Museum of Women in the Arts
• Sculptor.org
• Tate Gallery
• Web Gallery of Art
• Web Museum, Paris
• Women Artists of the American West
• WSSLINKS: Women & Art Sites

Reference Sources

Use these sources for selecting and narrowing your topic.

• Art Book  R N40.A775
• ARTstor  [requires library authentication]
• Encyclopedia of American Art Before 1914  RN6507.E53
• Encyclopedia of World Art  R N31.E4833, 17 vol.
• Oxford Art Online  – Grove's Dictionary of Art Online –  an extensive online reference resource covering all aspects of the visual arts
  McGraw Hill Dictionary of Art  R N33.M23, 5 vol.
• North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century  R N6503.N67
• Oxford Dictionary of Art  R N33.O93
• Oxford Reference Online  Includes five Oxford Reference titles in the arts, including Oxford Dictionary of Art and   Dictionary of TwentiethCentury Art
  Penguin Concise Dictionary of Art History  RN5300.F64
  World Painting Index  R ND45.H38