Use this guide to help you find sources for any research paper or project having to do with the history of art, design, architecture, and aesthetics.
If you have an in-depth research question and you are in need of some assistance, please email the Art Librarian Leslie Vega, contact info on the right.
Don't know where to begin? If you need basic, general information on an artist or art movement, use a reference book! It is best practice to use reference sources and not Wikipedia or other online sites. See below for some examples.
The Surrealist by Victor Brauner, 1947 via ARTstor © 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
The Dictionary of Art
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The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design
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Decorative Arts
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Art since 1900: modernism, antimodernism, postmodernism
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The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
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