Art Sources - LSC-CyFair
Magazine, Newspaper, Journal ArticlesNOTE:
Titles with 
below = Lone Star College System college access off campus with valid college ID/library card number
All other titles = off campus by HCPL & Lone Star College System library card holders
ARTstor (ARTstor Inc.) Contains over 300,000 artistic images in architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, and decorative arts with more to be added. Images are from libraries, museums, photographic archives, publishers, slide libraries, and individual scholars.
Oxford Art Online (includes Grove Art)
(Oxford University Press) Full-text art reference (including Grove Art) covering all the visual arts from prehistory to the present with links to 5,000 images the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Art Images for College Teaching (AICT), and the Artists Rights Society and text from Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
ProQuest Databases (ProQuest) Articles from journals, magazines, national newspapers including the Houston Chronicle and National Public Radio (NPR) selected programs.
Academic Search Complete
(EBSCO) Articles from journals, magazines, newspapers on a variety of topics.
Biography Reference Bank (H.W. Wilson) Includes detailed profiles of current and past personalities and "links to 380,000+ related full-text articles plus more than 36,000 images."
Historical New York Times (ProQuest) Covers the years of 1851-2003 of the newspaper with full-text and full-image articles.
Books, Videos, Etc.
Selected Reference Books at Lone Star College-CyFair Branch Library
- Encyclopedia of Artists - REF 709.22 Enc
This very useful six-volume set provides two-page biographies of major artists with an analysis of an important work. Viewing this set is worth a trip to the library to see how to analyze an artwork. - Grove Dictionary of Art - REF 703 Dic or online (see database link above). If you are accessing the library's electronic resources from home, you will need your library card barcode number to log in. This multivolume encyclopedia of artists and their works is a good place to get basic information about your artist. You can look up your artist or find an artwork.
Search for library materials in the:
NOTE: Request items online from library catalog with a Harris County Public Library Card or Lone Star College-CyFair Photo ID/Library Card. See instructions on getting a library card.
Selected Web Sites
Artists, Museums, and Paintings
- Artcyclopedia @ http://www.artcyclopedia.com/ - This free resource is a great site for museum quality art information on the Internet.
- Art History Resources on the Web @ http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html - From a professor of art history at Sweet Briar College, Virginia, this chronological and geographicall guide links to sites on art and artists.
- Menil Collection @ http://www.menil.org/collections.html - View sample works from the collections.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History @ http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm - Time travel through art via essays and links to related sites.
- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - Collections @ http://www.mfah.org/main.asp?target=collection - View selected works and descriptions. Select a collection and click on the link to images.
Guides on How to Critique Art
- Four Steps in Art Criticism (NOTE: PDF format - download reader as needed) @
http://www.jmam.org/Wier%20Education/New%20pdf%20files/FourStepsinArtCriticismwebready.pdf - From the Janice Mason Art Museum in Kentucky takes a more thorough look at art building upon some basic questions in the link below. - Teaching Students to Critique @ http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/3338/ - From the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., these tips help students analyze an art work in four areas: description, analysis, interpretation, judgment.
Citation Help
Find examples of MLA, APA, or Chicago style format on the Citation Help page to give credit to information sources used in an assignment.
MLA Examples for Art
(NOTE: check MLA guides for correct line spacing and indention since it cannot be shown here)
Photograph of work on a museum Web site:
Turrell, James. The Light Inside. 1999. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 3 Oct. 2007
<http://www.mfah.org/collection.asp?par1=11&par2=&par3=40&par6=3&par4=282&lgc=4¤tPage=5>.
Article on an Author from Grove Art Online:
Staiti, Paul J. "George Inness." Grove Art Online. 27 Sept. 1999. Oxford Art Online. LSC-CyFair Lib.,
Cypress, TX. 28 Jan. 2008 <http://www.oxfordartonline.com.lscsproxy.lonestar.edu>.
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