Course Guides: Arts
Courses listed in the General Catalog:
- ARTS 1010: Introduction to Visual Arts
- ARTS 1100: Art Appreciation
- ARTS 2000: Introduction to Computer Images I
- ARTS 2010: Introduction to Digital Media
- ARTS 2100: Basic Drawing
- ARTS 2150: Basic Design
- ARTS 2200: Intermediate Drawing
- ARTS 2300: Basic Painting
- ARTS 2400: Watercolor painting
- ARTS 2510: Art History Survey I
- ARTS 2520: Art History Survey II
- ARTS 2610: Modern Art
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- Printable Guides & Handouts
- Suggested Databases
- Selected E-Book Sources
- Locations of Art Resources in the Library
- Selected Books in the Library
- Online Resources
- Research Guides: includes citation help
- Local Art Museums & Centers
PRINTABLE GUIDES & HANDOUTS:
SUGGESTED DATABASES:
- Academic Search Complete - Provides full-text articles from more than 5,500 multi-disciplinary, scholarly journals and publications.
- Art Abstracts - Provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for over 450 international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. NOTE that this database is not FULL-TEXT.
- Biography Resource Center - Provides full-text biographies, magazine articles, images, and website links for more than 900,000 people.
- JSTOR - The Scholarly Journal Archive - Provides a multi-disciplinary archive of scholarly journals and other resources across the humanities, social sciences and sciences.
Please note that when accessing the databases from off-campus, you will be prompted to login.
SELECTED E-BOOK SOURCES:
- NetLibrary - Provides access to over 59,000 ebooks (electronic copies of printed books, often in PDF format) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. NetLibrary has an easy to use search interface. (You will need a NetLibrary account to access these e-books from off-campus. Please see the tutorial, Accessing & Using NetLibrary for more information.)
- Art and Its Significance: An Anthology of Aesthetic Theory, 1994, by Stephen David Ross.
- Art Beyond Representation: The Performative Power of the Image, 2004, by Barbara Bolt.
- Artists, Writers, and Musicians: Lives and Legacies series, 2001, by Michel-André Bossy.
- Encyclopedia of American Folk Art, 2004, by Gerard C. Wertkin.
- Great Jobs for Art Majors, 2nd Edition, 2003, by Blythe Camenson.
- The Hutchinson Dictionary of Symbols in Art, 2005. NetLibrary, Inc.
- The Oxford Companion to Christian Art and Architecture, 1996, by Peter Murray.
- Art History: The Key Concepts, 2006, by Jonathan Harris.
- Beauty and Art, 1750-2000, 2005, by Elizabeth Prettejohn.
- The New Art History: A Critical Introduction, 2001, by Jonathan Harris.
- Interpretation Radical but Not Unruly: The New Puzzle of the Arts and History, 1995, by Joseph Margolis.
- Computers and Art, 2nd Edition, 2002, by Stuart Mealing.
- The Historiography of Modern Architecture, 1999, by Panayotis Tournikiotis.
- Pencil Sketching, 2002, by Thomas C. Wang.
- Photographers: A Sourcebook for Historical Research, Rev. 2nd Edition, 2000, by Peter E. Palmquist.
- What Painting Is: How to Think about Oil Painting, Using the Language of Alchemy, 2000, by James Elkins.
- Google Book Search - Many full-text ebooks in PDF format, free and available to download. Google Book Search has an easy search interface with option to see only full-text titles.
General Reference
Art History:
Art Materials, Mediums & Forms:
LOCATIONS OF ART RESOURCES IN THE LIBRARY:
Arts-related topics can be found in resources located in these Library of Congress call number ranges:
- N1 to NX820 - Fine arts.
- N1 to N9211 - Visual arts.
- N61 to N72 - Visual arts . Theory. Philosophy. Aesthetics of the visual arts.
- N5300 to N7418 - Visual arts .History.
- NA1 to NA9428 - Architecture.
- NA190 to NA1555.5 - Architecture. History.
- NB1 to NB1952 - Sculpture.
- NB60 to NB1115 - Sculpture. History.
- NC1 to NC1940 - Drawing.
- NC50 to NC266 - History of drawing.
- NC390 to NC670 - Study and teaching.
- ND25 to ND3416 - Painting.
- ND49 to ND813 - History.
- ND1115 to ND1120 - Study and teaching.
- NE1 to NE3002 - Print media
SELECTED BOOKS AVAILABLE IN THE LIBRARY:
Please note that many art books are large and may be located in the Oversized Section, located along the back wall of Room C-124. In addition, we have numerous books on several artists, artistic styles & movements, countries, regions & historical periods, far too many to list here. Just browse the "Ns" to see what we have!
General Reference
- Anatomy for the Artist, 2000.
Call number:NC 760 .B33 1999 OVERSIZED - The Art Book, 1994.
Call number: N 33 .A575 1994 OVERSIZED; "an A to Z guide to 500 great painters and sculptors from medieval to modern times." - Encyclopedia of Artists, 2000.
Call number: N 31 .E53 2000 REF; in 6 volumes. - A Dictionary of Art Titles: The Origins of the Names and Titles of 3,000 Works of Art, 2000.
Call number: N 33 .R56 2000 REF. - Dictionary of the Arts, Movements, Terms, People: From Ancient Art to World Music, 1994.
Call number: NX 80 .D53 1994 REF - The Oxford Companion to Art, 1970.
Call number: N 33 .O9 1970 REF. - The Oxford Dictionary of Art, New Edition, 1997.
Call number: N 33 .O93 1997 REF. - The Yale Dictionary of Art & Artists, 2000.
Call number: N 33 .L353 2000 REF
Art History
- Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art, 1998.
Call number: N 5310 .B34 1998 - Great Events from History II: Arts and Culture Series, 1993.
Call number: NX 456 .G72 1993 REF, in 5 volumes. - History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography, 4th Edition, 1998.
Call number: N 6490 .A713 1998 OVERSIZED - The Oxford History of Western Art, 2000.
Call number: N 5300 .O96 2000 - The Penguin Concise Dictionary of Art History, 2000.
Call number: N 5300 .F64 2000 - The Print in the Western World: An Introductory History, 1996.
Call number: NE 400 .H79 1996 OVERSIZED - The Story of Painting, 2nd American Edition, 2000.
Call number: ND 450 .B43 2000 - The World's Greatest Architecture, Past and Present, 2003.
Call number: NA 200 .F54 2003 - A World History of Photography, 3rd Edition, 1997.
Call number: NH 70 .R67 1997
Art Materials, Mediums & Forms
- The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques, 5th Edition, Revised and Updated, 1991.
Call number: ND 1500 .M3 1991 - Dictionary of Architecture and Construction, 4th Edition, 2006.
Call number:NA 31 .H32 2006 REF - Digital Photography Fine Print Workshop, 2006.
Call number: NH 567 .D49 2006 - The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons, 1999.
Call number: NC 1766 .U5 L46 1999 - Encyclopedia of Interior Design, 1997.
Call number: NK 1165 .E48 1997 REF, in 2 volumes. - Photography for Dummies, 2nd Edition, 2004.
Call number: NH 467 .H37 2004 - Sculpture, 1997.
Call number: NB 60 .R36 1997 - What is Painting? Representation and Modern Art, 1999.
Call number: ND 1140 .B45 1999 - The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons, 2nd Edition, 1999,
Call number: NC 1325 .W67 1999 OVERSIZED, in 7 volumes.
ONLINE RESOURCES:
General Reference
- Americans for the Arts
"the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America." - National Gallery of Art : Education
from the National Gallery of Art; also see the link "NGA Classroom: Online Resources for Teachers and Students," for numerous resources. - Tate Collection: Glossary
A rich resource from Britain's Tate Gallery offers more than just a glossary of terms, but also online access to items in the Tate Collection.
Art History
- art history resources on the web
This site offers numerous resources and links, created and maintained by Prof. Witcombe in the Dept. of Art History at Sweet Briar College, Virginia; online since Oct. 1995 and last updated, June 2007. - Timeline of Art History,
from the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City.
Art Materials, Mediums & Forms
- The Artist's Toolkit: Visual Elements and Principles,
an interactive site that allows students to "Explore the tools that artists use - like line, color, and balance - to build works of art," from the Minneaoplis Institute of Arts. - Johannes Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance,
an interactive analysis of the painting from the National Gallery of Art - PhotoNotes.org, "a free information resource for the Internet photographic community." This site includes a dictionary, articles and other resources.
LOCAL ART MUSEUMS & CENTERS
- Alexandria Museum of Art
- CAC: Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans.
- LASM: Louisiana Art & Science Museum, in Baton Rouge.
- Louisiana State Museum, in New Orleans.
- LSU Museum of Art, in the Shaw Center, downtown Baton Rouge.
- Newcomb Art Gallery / Woldenburg Art Center, at Tulane University, New Orleans.
- NOMA: New Orleans Museum of Art. Admission to the permanent collections is FREE to Louisiana residents with proper ID.
- The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, University of New Orleans.
- University Art Museum, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.