Recommended Resources
Recommended Websites
Curriculum related websites selected by the Librarian:
- Metropolitan Museum of Art — The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. It collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas
- MoMa Online
- AccessCeramics
- Art and Architecture in the Arab world
- Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine
Art history indexes & catalogs:
- Getty Research Portal — The Getty Research Portal is an online search platform providing global access to digitized art history texts. Through this multilingual, multicultural union catalog, scholars can search and download complete digital copies of publications for the study of art, architecture, material culture, and related fields. The Portal is free to all users
Books on Art History
Film Art : An Introduction by David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Jeff Smith
Call Number: PN 1995 .B617 2017
ISBN: 1259253317
Publication Date: 2017
Art and Print Production by N. N. Sarkar
Call Number: NC 997 .S27 2013
ISBN: 0198085567
Publication Date: 2013
Exploring the Elements of Design by Poppy Evans; Mark Thomas
Call Number: NC 997 .E94 2013
ISBN: 1111645507
Publication Date: 2013
Translating Nature into Art by Jeanne Nuechterlein
Call Number: N 6888 .H664 N84 2011
ISBN: 9780271036922
Publication Date: 2011
Books on Art
Graphic Design Solutions by Robin Landa
Call Number: NC 997 .L32 2019
ISBN: 1337554057
Publication Date: 2019
Citizen Spectator by Wendy Bellion
Call Number: N 72 .S6 B395 2011
ISBN: 9780807833889
Publication Date: 2011
The Art of Seeing by Paul Zelanski; Mary Pat Fisher
Call Number: N 7430.5 .Z36 2009
ISBN: 9780205748341
Publication Date: 2010
Prebles' Artforms by Patrick Frank
Call Number: N 7430 .P69 2009
ISBN: 013514132X
Publication Date: 2008
Encyclopedias
Thomas Heatherwick: Making Ideas by Thomas Heatherwick
Call Number: NA 997 .H43 A4 2012
ISBN: 9781580933346
Publication Date: 2012
The art and design teacher's handbook [electronic resource] by Hodge, Susie, 1960-
ISBN: 9781847061508
Publication Date: 2010
International Handbook of Research in Arts Education [electronic resource] by Bresler, Liora.
ISBN: 9781402030529
Publication Date: 2007
Design : the definitive visual history by Black, Alexandra
Call Number: NK 1175 .B53 2015
ISBN: 9780241185650
Publication Date: 2015
The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture by Phaidon Press Editors (Editor); Mary Guyatt; Ricky Burdett; Tim Abrahams
Call Number: NA 687 .P48 2008
ISBN: 9780714848747
Publication Date: 2008-10-29
Books on Design
Advertising Creative by Thomas (Tom) B. Altstiel; Jean M. Grow
Call Number: HF 5823 .A758 2013
ISBN: 9781452203638
Publication Date: 2013
Writing and Research for Graphic Designers by Steven Heller
Call Number: NC 1001 .H465 2012
ISBN: 9781592538041
Publication Date: 2013
Graphic Design, Referenced by Armin Vit; Bryony Gomez Palacio
Call Number: NC 997 .G565 2011
ISBN: 9781592537426
Publication Date: 2011
The Art of Tinkering by Karen Wilkinson; Mike Petrich
Call Number: NX 180 .S3 W55 2013
ISBN: 9781616286095
Publication Date: 2014-02-04
Cool Tools by Kevin Kelly (Editor)
Call Number: TS 199 .C66 2013
ISBN: 9781940689005
Publication Date: 2013-12-17
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
Call Number: TS 171.4 .N67 2013
ISBN: 9780465050659
Publication Date: 2013
The Functional Art by Alberto Cairo
Call Number: T 385 .C33875 2013
ISBN: 9780321834737
Publication Date: 2012
Books on Digital Art
Animation Unleashed by Ellen Besen; Bryce Hallett (Illustrator); Michael Wiese Productions Staff (Created by)
Call Number: NC 1765 .B46 2008
ISBN: 9781932907490
Publication Date: 2008-10-01
Making Faces by 8Fish
Call Number: NC 770 .A15 2008
ISBN: 9781600610493
Publication Date: 2008
Film Art by David Bordwell; Kristin Thompson
Call Number: PN 1995 .B617 2010
ISBN: 9780073386164
Publication Date: 2010
Digital Painting Fundamentals by Rhonda Grossman Draws
ISBN: 9781435459885
Publication Date: 2011
A Creator's Guide to Transmedia Storytelling by Andrea Phillips
Call Number: QA 76.76 .I59 P496 2012
ISBN: 9780071791526
Publication Date: 2012
Setting the Scene by Fraser MacLean; Pete Docter (Foreword by)
Call Number: Call Number: NC 1765 .M28 2011
ISBN: 9780811869874
Publication Date: 2011
Dictionaries
Graphic Design Solutions by Robin Landa
Call Number: NC 997 .L32 2011
ISBN: 9780495572817
Publication Date: 2010
The Visual Dictionary of Graphic Design by Gavin Ambrose; Paul Harris
Call Number: NC 997 .A1 A42 2006
ISBN: 2940373434
Publication Date: 2007
e-Journals
- Aperture — Coverage: 2012 to present
- Art Bulletin — Coverage: 1985 to present
- British Journal of Photography — Coverage: 2009 to present
- Design Week — Coverage: 2010 - present
- Journal of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston — Coverage: 1989 to 1994
- MoMA -The Museum of Modern Art — Coverage: 1974 to 2002
- Oxford Art Journal — Coverage: 1978 to present
For more Art related E-journals, click here.
Database
- Academic Search Ultimate — Great start for academic research. EBSCO has an extensive multidisciplinary collection of peer-reviewed, scholarly, full-text journals and magazines that are also indexed by Web of Science and Scopus. Includes trade reports and proceedings
- eBook Central (Proquest) — Ebook Central provides authoritative ebooks in a range of subjects from the world's top publishers. The collection is used to quickly and easily find relevant ebooks and chapters; read online; search within the ebook; and highlight, take notes and bookmark pages in your online copy, stored on your bookshelf for you. You can also share your research with others, download ebooks and chapters to your laptop or mobile device, and more
- JSTOR — An archive of scholarly content that dates back to 1900s. Excellent for the arts and history, religion studies, ethics, politics, literature, English studies, education, economics and management theories. Access articles, primary sources, historical documents, eBooks
- ProQuest The Arts
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