Resource Guide:
Fine Arts
Digital Open Education Resources
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Art
- Art movements
- Artistic photography
- Collage
- Commercial art
- Graphic arts
- Illustrations
- Mural painting and decoration
- Proportion (art)
- Sculpture
- Symbolism in art
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- Art in America (on display)
- Art and Research: A Journal of Ideas, Context and Methods
- Art Bulletin
- Art History
- Art Journal
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Art and its significance : an anthology of aesthetic theory | REMOTE BH 39 .A69 |
| Art treasures of the Vatican : architecture, painting, sculpture | N 2940 .A77 |
| The Artist in society : rights, roles, and responsibilities | NX 180 .A77 A5 1994 |
| Artists’ techniques and materials | N 7430 .F8413 2006 |
| The Oxford companion to art | N 33 .O9 1979 |
| Artistic research | eBook 2004 |
| Concise Oxford dictionary of art terms | eBook 2001 |