Art & Design Resources

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Art & Design Databases

An online collection of high-quality, digital documentation of works of art from around the world. Works from major European, American, and Canadian artists in the collections of member museums are included. Cultures and time periods represented range from contemporary art, Native American and Inuit art, to ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, along with Japanese and Chinese works. The database includes numerous multimedia files. Art Museum Image Gallery documents over 90,000 works of art.

Provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with ongoing additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links and all the sophisticated search advantages possible with an online reference resource.
AP Images, a division of The Associated Press, is one of the world’s largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery. As an essential source of photographs and graphics for professional image buyers, AP Images strives to meet the needs of today’s global customer through superior image quality, selection and service.

General & Other Useful Databases

Offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.
Offers current articles in nearly every academic discipline, as well as current affairs and general interest topics. Subject areas include: arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.
Contains the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Business Full Text, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, and Social Sciences Full Text.
Provides access to thousands of news, business, legal, and medical publications and information sources, including: newspapers, newsletters, magazines, trade journals, wire services, and broadcast transcripts.
Worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 member institutions. With millions of online records built from the bibliographic and ownership information of contributing libraries, it is the largest and most comprehensive database of its kind.

Books (and other resources)

To locate books and other resources relevant to the subject of art and design, please use the library's online catalog to conduct searches by keyword, title, or author. Additionally, you may conduct a search set to a "subject browse" and use the following subject headings as search terms:

  • Anatomy (Artistic)
  • Commercial Art
  • Drawing
  • Expressionism
  • Gauguin Paul
  • Graphic Arts
  • Graphic Design (Typography)
  • Illustrators
  • Impressionism
  • Logos
  • Photography
  • Printing
  • Sculpture
  • Signs and Symbols
  • Trademarks

Also try browsing through the collection on the first floor of the library to find reference works. The following reference books will get you started. Focus on the entire 'N' section for titles in the more comprehensive art subject area in general, also more specifically around the "Z246" area for graphic design (typography) and the "TR" area for photography.

PLEASE NOTE that art and design materials are wide ranging and are spread out into several collections within the Library. After locating items of interest in the online catalog, take special note of the Location for the items. They could be in any one of the following locations, or even another location.. Help in finding any of these locations can be provided by anyone on the Library staff.

Quarto/Oversize Collection - 2nd floor
LC Circulating Collection - 2nd floor
Reference Collection - 1st floor
Audio-Visual Collection - 1st floor
Other locations - check with a member of the Library staff

General

The Dictionary of Art: REF N31.D5 1996
The Oxford Companion to Western Art: REF N33 .O923 2001
Guide to the Literature of Art History 2: REF N380 .M374 2005
Contemporary Artists: REF N6490 .C662 2002
Artist’s & Graphic Designer’s Market: REF N8600 .A746 2006-2007
The Sculpture Reference Illustrated: REF NB1170 .W55 2005
The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers: REF NC997 .L58 2003
The Design Encyclopedia: REF NK1370 .B93 2004
Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing & Ethical Guidelines: REF NC1001.6 .G726 2001
Encyclopedia of Creativity: REF BF408.E53 1999
The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography: REF TR9 .F6 2007
The Photography Encyclopedia
:
REF TR9 .M39 1999
The Photographer’s Market: REF TR12 .P515 .

 

Online Art & Design Journals

Online art & design journals (particularly review journals for "visual arts-general")

Online Art & Design Books (Selected)

Websites