Art 104 - African Art

Art 104 - African Art

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

Books

Use the Library Catalog to find books on African art and artists. The general call number range for books on all aspects of art is N1 – NX765. More specific call numbers for African art and artists may be found by searching the online catalog for the following subjects:

	ART & ARCHITECTURE	MISCELLANEOUS
	ARCHITECTURE ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC EMPIRE ART AFRICAN ARTS AFRICAN ART AFRICAN 20^TH CENTURY ART AFRICAN ENCYCLOPEDIAS ART AFRICAN EXHIBITIONS ART BLACK AFRICA ART BLACK AFRICA CENTRAL CATALOGS ART BLACK AFRICA CENTRAL EXHIBITIONS ART BLACK AFRICA HISTORY ART BLACK AFRICA SUB-SAHARAN ART MODERN 20TH CENTURY AFRICA SUB-SAHARAN	ART ISLAMIC ART AND STATE AFRICA SUB- SAHARAN BODY MARKING AFRICA COSTUME AFRICA ETHNIC ARCHITECTURE AFRICA JEWELRY AFRICA MASKS AFRICAN SCULPTURE AFRICAN SYMBOLISM IN ART AFRICA SUB-SAHARAN VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE AFRICA

	ARTISTS
	ARTISTS AFRICA EXHIBITIONS ARTISTS BLACK BIOGRAPHY WOMEN ARTISTS AFRICA

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 in World History

REF N5300 .H674 2004

International Dictionary of Art and Artists

REF N40 .I55 1990

Contemporary Artists

REF N6490 .C6567 2002

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Art

REF N33 .M23

Continuum Encyclopedia of Native Art

REF E98. A7 W49 2000

Oxford Companion to Art

REF N33 .O9

Dictionary of Art

REF N31 .D5 1996

Sculpture

REF NB60 .S38130 1996

Encyclopedia of World Art

REF N31 .E533

St. James Guide to Black Artists

REF N40. S78 1997

Encyclopedia of Visual Art

REF N25 .E53 1983

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:

ArtNews
Art Forum
ArtWEEK

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
Ethnic News Watch
GaleNet

Grove Art

NewsBank

Oxford African American Studies Center

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.

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature

Humanities Index

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.

African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/exhib/93.ray.aa/African.html

African Art-African History Links

http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/afrilink.htm

Art History Resource on the Web: African Art

http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHafrica.html

ArtCyclopedia

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

Cycles: African Life through Art

http://www.ima-art.org/cycles/

Detroit Institute of Arts

http://dia.org/collections/aonwc/aonwcindex.html