Research Guides: #Art, Art History, & Art Appreciation: Contents

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This guide is organized both by topic as well as by type of information source. Use the navigation options to the left, or keep reading to get explanations of each page's content. This home page also includes links to departmental pages and background info for this subject.

Course Guides

Find more topical links in these guides to specific art courses.

Research: Scholarly Sources

Where to find peer-reviewed research through the library databases.

Ebooks & Books

Sampling of topical books from our collection.

Online Sources

Find online topic overviews and other media sources like podcasts.

Experiencing Art

Locate art events in the Houston area, plus online museum collections.

Creating Art

Resources to help you develop your skills.

Careers

Connect with information about becoming a professional artist.

Citations

See examples of Chicago citations for art and connect with citation guides.

Tutorial: Evaluating Information Sources for Art

Background Info

Oxford Art Online
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Full-text art reference (including Grove Art, but not Benezit Dictionary of Artists) covering all visual arts from prehistory to present. Many images included along with articles providing overviews of artists, movements, periods, and places.

Contains links to 5,000 images the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Art Images for College Teaching (AICT), and the Artists Rights Society and text from Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Credo Reference
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Useful when you're starting out on a research project. Do simple searches to find topic introductions in a variety of subjects. The mind map tool will help you discover related ideas and terms.

Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms by Edward Lucie-Smith
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Contains over 2000 authoritative entries. Covers painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, the decorative, applied and graphic arts from all periods throughout the world up to the present day: there is even a table of the dynasties of Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, China, India and Japan.

Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center
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A full-text database that includes more than 1500 books and magazines, over 720 videos, 160 hobby profiles, and 3000 recipes from various health organizations, offered in a unique and dedicated user interface. Covers hundreds of hobby and craft making ideas ranging from hat making to model building.

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