Art 107 - Asian Art

Art History 107 - Asian Art

Your search for information on Asian 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
Art, Asia Art, Asian Art, Buddhist Art, China Art, Hindu Art, Indic Art, Japanese Art, Korean Art, Nepali Art, Oriental Art, Tibetan	Painting, Chinese Painting, Indic Painting, Japanese Paintings, Asian SCULPTURE Sculpture, Asia Sculpture, Hindu Sculpture, Khmer Sculpture, Thai	Arts, Indic Arts, Japanese Arts, Korean Pottery, Chinese Pottery, Indic Pottery, Japanese Pottery Korean	(Search by Subject or Author, type last name first) Artists – Japan Potters – Japan Kitaoji, Rosanjin

Selected Reference Books

Contemporary Artists REF N6490.C6567 1996	Encyclopedia of World Art. REF N31 .E533
Color Encyclopedia of World Art REF N31.J32	The Oxford Companion to Art REF N33 .O9
The Dictionary of Art. REF N31 .D5 1996	Ukiyo-e: 250 Years of Japanese Art REF N7353.5 N4813
The Encyclopedia of Visual Art. REF N25 .E53 1983

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.