Art 102: Introduction to Western Art

research guide

You will be using the Chicago style for writing papers, endnotes, and bibliographies in most of your humanities courses. Examples below are borrowed from Diana Hacker's A Writer's Reference (www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/).

• Writing the paper  and avoiding plagiarism. See also the library's plagiarism page with lots of in-depth entries.
  
  
• Documentation Sources
  endnotes
  bibliographies
• citing electronic sources

Finding Books

• Annie
• WorldCat

Finding Articles

• Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984)
• Art Full Text (1984-present)
• Bibliography of the History of Art (only Western art)

Finding Background information

• Dictionary of Art Online. (Grove Art Online) Edited by Jane Turner.
  Dictionary of Art . 34 vols. Edited by Jane Turner. REF N31.D5 1996
• A Dictionary of Architecture
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
• The Oxford Dictionary of Art
• A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art

More specialized art reference books are in the REF N section on the main floor. You can find biographical information on artists; descriptions of art techniques; guides to locate art works, etc.