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Art History 103 - Utopian Art


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 – NX. More specific call numbers for this time period may be found by searching the catalog for the following subjects:

ART

PAINTING

MISCELLANEOUS

ARTISTS

Art, Modern

Art, Modern-19th century

Art, Modern-20th century

Art criticism

 

SCULPTURE

Sculpture, Modern

Cubism

Expressionism (Art)

Futurism (Art)

Impressionism (Art)

Landscape in art

Landscape painting

Painting, Abstract

Pointillism

Surrealism

Bauhaus

Color in art

Computer art

Constructivism (Art)

Eclecticism in art

Modernism (Art)

Neoclassicism (Art)

Post-impressionism (Art)

Primitivism in art

Realism in art

Romanticism in art

Symbolism in art

Utopias - History

Benton, Thomas Hart

Chagall, Marc

Gauguin, Paul

Hicks, Edward

Kahlo, Frida

Lawrence, Jacob

Magritte, Rene

Maholy-Nagy, László

O’Keeffe, Georgia

Parrish, Maxfield

Picasso, Pablo

Seurat, Georges

Vuillard, Édouard

 

Keyword searching can be used to find books using words associated with your topic. An example follows:

utopia? and art

Selected Reference Books

A-Z of Art

REF N40 .H63 1996

Encyclopedia of World Art

REF N31 .E533

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

Illustrated Dictionary of Symbols in

Eastern and Western Art

REF N7740 .H35 1994

Biographical Dictionary of Women Artists

in Europe and American Since 1850

REF N6757 .D86 1989

J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of

the Collections
REF N582 .M25 A627 1997

Dictionary of Art 

(Also available online)

REF N31 .D5 1996

Oxford Companion to Art
REF N33 .O9

Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art

REF N7560 .H34 1979

Sculpture

REF NB60 .S38130 1996

Encyclopedia of Visual Art

REF N25 .E53 1983

Sister Wendy’s 1000 Masterpieces

REF ND50 .B396 1999

 

Journal and Reference Articles

 

Journals 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. To find articles on your topic, use one of the online indexes listed below. They are available at http://www.cerritos.edu/library/http://www.cerritos.edu/library/e-resources.html. Use subject headings similar to those used for books. You may also enter the title of an artwork, an artist, a stylistic period, or medium. The Library also has print indexes that must be used to find older articles, generally anything published before 1985.

 

EbscoHost Masterfile Premier

NewsBank InfoWeb

GaleNet Discovering Collection Project Muse
Grove Art Online  

 

Internet Sites

 

Museums and Galleries:

Art Research:

Huntington Library, Gallery and Gardens

http://www.huntington.org

AMICO: Art Museum Image Consortium

http://www.amico.org/

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

Art Cyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com

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

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

Louvre Museum Official Website
http://www.louvre.fr/

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

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

MEL: Modern Art

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

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

Voice of the Shuttle: Art & Art History

http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp

The Museum of Latin American Art

http://www.molaa.com/

Utopian Research:

National Gallery of Art

http://www.nga.gov/

New York Public Library: Utopia

http://utopia.nypl.org/primarysources.html

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

The Society for Utopian Studies: Utopian Links

http://www.utoronto.ca/utopia/links.html

WebMuseum, Paris
http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/

Utopia on the Internet

http://users.erols.com/jonwill/utopialist.htm

   
VM 11/04, 8/05  

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