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Art History 103 -  Modern to Contemporary

Your search for information on Contemporary Art and Artists can include books, journal articles, online databases, and authoritative Internet resources.

Books

Use the  Library Catalog  to find books on your subject. The general call number range for books on all aspects of art is N1 – NX765. More specific call numbers for this time period may be found by searching the catalog for the following subjects:

ART

PAINTING

MISCELLANEOUS

ARTISTS

African American Art

Art, French -- 19th 

      century

Art, French -- 20th

      century

Art, Mexican

Art, Modern

Art, Modern,19th

      century

Art, Modern,20th

      century

Gothic revival (Art)

Neoclassicism (Art)

Art criticism

Art deco

Mexican American Art

 

Cubism

Impressionism (Art)

Portrait painting

Painting, Abstract

Pointillism

 

SCULPTURE

Sculpture, Modern

Neon sculpture

Soft sculpture

Eclecticism in art         

Post-impressionism (Art)

Realism in art

Primitivism in art

Color in art

Romanticism in art

Computer art

Modernism (Art)

Bauhaus

Dali, Salvador

Goya, Francisco

Kahlo, Frida

Lawrence, Jacob

O’Keeffe, Georgia

Picasso, Pablo

Rodin, Auguste

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Vuillard, Édouard

Warhol, Andy

Selected Reference Books

Reference Books are a good starting point for your research because they help you become better acquainted with your topic. Listed below are some reference books that may be useful in your research.

Art of the 20th Century

REF N6490 .A77 1998

 

 

Grove Dictionary of Art 

REF N31 .D5 1996
(GroveArt Online)

 

A-Z of Art

REF N40 .H63 1996

Encyclopedia of Visual Art

REF N25 .E53 1983

 


ArtSpeak: A Guide to Contemporary

Ideas, Movements and Buzzwords

N6490 .A87 1997

Encyclopedia of 20th Century Sculpture

REF NB198 .E53 2004

 


ArtSpoke: A Guide to Modern Ideas,

Movements and Buzzwords

REF N6447 .A85 1993

Great Artists of the Western World

REF NB197.3 .R4513 1977

 


Atlas of Western Art History: Artists, Sites, and Movements

REF G1046.E64 S7 1994

 

Modern Arts Criticism

REF N6489 .M63 1991

 


Biographical Dictionary of Women Artists

in Europe and American Since 1850

REF N6757 .D86 1989

Oxford Companion to Art
REF N33 .O9

Contemporary Artists

REF NB198 .E53 2004

Sculpture

REF NB60 .S38130 1996

 

Contemporary Women Artists

REF N8354 .C66 1999

 

Sister Wendy’s 1000 Masterpieces

REF ND50 .B396 1999

 

Magazine, Journal, and Newspaper Articles

Journal and magazines usually provide the most current information on a topic.  Journal articles are more scholarly or professional while magazine articles tend to be shorter and more general.  Newspaper articles, while not usually scholarly or professional, can give you the most current news and some additional facts on your topic. 

The Library has several magazines that focus on art: 

American Artist ARTnews
Art in America ArtWeek
ArtForum Art Journal (in Ebscohost)

To find articles on your topic, use one of the online databases listed below.  These databases usually provide full-text articles on almost every topic. Conduct your search in these databases by using subject headings and keywords similar to those you used to locate books.

EbscoHost
GaleNet

Grove Art

NewsBank

Project Muse

ProQuest

 

For remote access to the library databases, see E-Resource Login & Searching Options.

For historical research, the Library also has print indexes that must be used to find older articles, generally anything published before 1985.


Internet Sites

The Internet can be a valuable source for supplementing the information you have gathered from books and periodicals. It is important that you evaluate the information you get from the Internet to determine if it is reliable and useful to your research. A few Internet sites that may be useful are listed here.

Art Cyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com

Art History Resources on the Web
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html

MEL: Neo-Classicism to Impressionism
http://web.mel.org/viewtopic.jsp?id=1316&pathid=3214

MEL: Modern Art
http://web.mel.org/viewtopic.jsp?id=1317&pathid=3215

WebMuseum, Paris
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint

Voice of the Shuttle: Art & Art History
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp

 

MUSEUMS

Bowers Museum of Cultural Art http://www.bowers.org

 

California African American Museum
http://www.caamuseum.org

 

Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA
http://www.fmch.ucla.edu

 

Huntington Library, Gallery and Gardens
http://www.huntington.org

 

J. Paul Getty Museum 
http://www.getty.edu/museum

 

LACMA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
http://www.lacma.org/lacma.asp

 

Long Beach Museum of Art
http://www.lbma.org

 

Louvre Museum Official Website
http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home_flash.jsp?bmLocale=en

 

Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org

 

Museum of Contemporary Art
http://www.moca.org

 

Museum of Latin American Art
http://www.molaa.com/

 

National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov/

 

Norton Simon Museum of Art
http://www.nortonsimon.org

 

 

 

 

SW 9/01, Rev 03/05, VM 10/05, SW 10/06

 


Web Author: Lorraine Gersitz (lgersitz@cerritos.edu)
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