Art Sources - LSC-CyFair

NOTE:
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

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.

JSTOR 
 (Mellon Foundation) Includes full-text back issues of selected journals in such areas as history, statistics, sociology, literature, and economics.

Project MUSE 
 (Johns Hopkins University Press) Full-text articles from "over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals."

eBook Collection - formerly NetLibrary
(EBSCO) Access Lone Star College's collection of over 33,000 complete electronic books.

ProQuest Newspapers
 (ProQuest) Full text of Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post with 20+ years of coverage.

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."

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:

Library Catalog

Other Libraries

eBook Collection (formerly NetLibrary)

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

Scholarly Articles for Hard-to-Find Information

• Google Scholar @ http://scholar.google.com/ includes some full-text articles and selected images

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://menil.org/collection/collectionoverview.php - View sample works from the collections.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History @ http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ - Time travel through art via essays and links to related sites.
• The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - Collections @ http://www.mfah.org/art/collections/ - View selected works and descriptions. Select a collection and click on the link to images.
  

Guides on How to Critique Art

• Teaching Students to Critique @ http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators/how-to/tipsheets/student-critique.aspx - 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. MFAH: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Web.

3 Oct. 2007.

Article on an Author from Grove Art Online:

Staiti, Paul J. "George Inness." Grove Art Online. 27 Sept. 1999. Oxford Art Online. Web. 28 Jan. 2008.

Article on an Artist's Exhibition (Review):

Tuttle, Alexandra. "The Gallery: The Nose in His Face." Wall Street Journal 6 Feb. 1992, eastern ed.: A12.

ProQuest Newspapers. Web. 16 Sept. 2010.

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