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Full length journal, magazine and newspaper articles can be found in our online article collections.

If a book or article cannot be found in PVAMU's resources, it can usually be borrowed from another library.
Fill out the Interlibrary Loan form, and please note that it may take several weeks to receive the item.


Find Books

Several books on Art are available in the Reserve Reading Room under "Dorsey".

Search the PVAMU Libraries Online Catalog for 'art,' . Most of the books on art that can be checked out are on the third floor in the N section. You'll find useful statistics and background information in these Reference books on the first floor:

  • McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Art REF N31 .E4833
  • Art history Ref N5300 .S923
  • 250 Years of Afro-American Art Ref Z5956 A47 .I38
  • Art Index Ref Z5937 .A78
  • The Oxford dictionary of art Ref N33 .O93
  • Art and society in Italy, 1350-1500 Ref N6915 .W42 1997
  • Art in Europe, 1700-1830 Ref N6756 .C73 1997
  • Historical art index, A.D. 400-1650 :
    people, places, and events depicted     Ref N8210 R6 1989
  • African American art and artists N6538 N5 L38 2003 
  • Contemporary Artists Ref N6490 C6567
  • Contemporary Graphic Artists Ref NC975 C 66 1986
  • The Dictionary of Art Ref N31 D5 1998
  • Art: a history of painting, sculpture, architecture Ref N5300 H283
  • St. James Guide to Black Artists Ref N40 S78 1997
  • Schirmer Encyclopedia of Art Ref N31 L3 2002
  • World Art American Museums Ref N510 M34 1983
  • North American Women Artists of Twentieth Century: a biographical dictionary Ref N6503 N67 1995
  • Artists from Latin American cultures: a biographical dictionary Ref N6502.5 C567 2002
  • A History of Greek Art Ref N5630 R63

Useful Call Numbers

  • Architecture NA
  • Fine Arts N
  • Sculpture NB
  • Graphic Arts NC
  • Painting ND
  • Photography TR
 

Databases

  • JSTOR Covers the arts, humanities, and social sciences, including architecture, art, history, archaeology, literature, philosophy, and related disciplines. 
  • World Cat (OCLC)
    WorldCat is also a union (i.e. collective) catalog of records of different types of material (books, exhibition catalogs, periodicals, scores, films, recordings, etc.) cataloged by over 8,000 OCLC member libraries from libraries in the United States. It is updated daily. This database may be used to verify citations of items not found in J. B. Coleman library, to find a needed item in another local library, or to provide accurate citations for interlibrary loan requests. 
  • EBSCOhost (All EBSCO Databases) 
    Many articles are available for humanities
    Retrieve newspaper—newspapers are a good source for exhibitions reviews; interviews; pictures of local interests; announcement of current events; awards; advertisements 
  • Lexis-Nexis academic
    Provides access to: full-text of current news and up to the last 20 years; full-text company & financial information; full-text federal, state, & international legal materials; full-text and abstract medial & health information; general reference sources…… 
  • American Historical Newspapers 
  • New York Times
  • Newsbank (national newspapers)
  • Newspaper Source

Web sites

World Art Treasures - http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/index.html

Archives of American Art (http://www.aaa.si.edu/)Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the Archives collects primary sources including illustrated letters and diaries, manuscripts, records of museums, galleries and schools, photographs of art world figures and events, and works of art on paper. 

Created by John Malyon, an IT professional, web developer, and entrepreneur, as a comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources.
 
AskART is an online database containing over 100,000 artists. From its inception the focus was on American artists from the early 16th-Century through the present. However, in January of 2007 the database has expanded to include international artists' auction records. It offers biographical information about American artists as well as book and periodical references, along with
International artists' auction records and images. Over 6,000 museums and dealers are also referenced. 
 
 
Archives of American Art: Smithsonian Institution
More than 6,000 photographs of artists and art world figures, letters, sketches and sketchbooks, diaries, printed materials, ephemera, and other documents from the Archives' collections have been digitized
 
Digital Collections at Harvard University (http://digitalcollections.harvard.edu/)
A selection of digital image collections created from Harvard Library holdings. Images represent a broad range of disciplines and cultural history worldwide.
 
WorldImages provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains over 60,000 images which may be freely used for non-profit educational purposes.
 
One of the search resources of the Getty Museum. A database of modern and historical names, coordinates, and descriptions of geographic places, arranged in hierarchical order. Good resource for searching glossary both arts and architecture.
 
Getty Museum Collection (http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/)
The collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, with images, descriptive texts, artists' biographies, videos, and so forth.
 
Art History Resources on the Web (http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html)
This web is maintained by Chris Witcombe, Professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College. Good website, it provides broad knowledge of art history.
 
ARTLEX: Art dictionary (http://www.artlex.com/)
Includes index (as well as search box), easy to retrieve for complicated art vocabularies.
 
A gathering point for networked resources on art and architecture
 
The World Wide Web Virtual Library: History of Art
Good resource for architecture, too. There are more than 40,000 images here, and a network of over half a million links.
 
Home page of Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
 
Google Image Search (http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en)
 
National Gallery of Art Washington (http://www.nga.gov/)
 
 
Visual Arts Data Service (Vads) (http://www.vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/index.html)
 
New York Public Library: NYPI Digital (http://www.nypl.org/digital/)
 
Women Archives National Directory (http://waand.rutgers.edu/about/sitemap.php)
 
CENSUS of Antique of Art and Architecture known in the Renaissance

 

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