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Galleries in Los Angeles

GALLERYPLATFORM.LA
Over 80 Los Angeles art galleries have joined together to create an online platform to promote engagement with the local and international art audience. Each week GALLERYPLATFORM.LA will present up to 11 gallery “viewing rooms” and 1 curated project.

Exhibition Catalogs in the Library

Use the subject headings below to discover exhibition catalogs:

[artist's name], eg. Arbus, Diane - Exhibitions | Criticism and Interpretation | Catalogs | Interviews
"Art, Modern -- 20th century | 21st century

Getting Started

For background information, start with an exhaustive reference work such as Grove Art Online Both the 'Guided Tour' and 'Tips for Users' (available from the Home page) provide useful information on searching Grove/Oxford Art Online.

Bibliographies located in books or at the end of journal articles can be very helpful. To learn if Pepperdine has access to a particular journal, search for the name of the journal in the library catalog, or use the 'Journals & Periodicals' search feature on the Library's Web site.

Locate artists' works on the Internet using a search engine such as Google; or visit a site that collects information about works from over 180,000 artists: Artnet.com

Artsy, a resource for collection and education, aims to make all the world’s art accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.

ARTnews (available on Flipster) reports on the art, personalities, issues, trends and events shaping the international art world.

Read Books Online

Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning by Bonnie J. Robinson (Editor); Pamela Sachant (Other); Rita Tekippe (Other); Jeffrey LeMieux (Other); Peggy Blood (Other)
ISBN: 1940771293
Publication Date: 2015-12-31
Authored by four USG faculty members with advance degrees in the arts, this textbooks offers up-to-date original scholarship. It includes over 400 high-quality images illustrating the history of art, its technical applications, and its many uses Its digital nature allows students to follow links to applicable sources and videos.

ProQuest E-Book Central This link opens in a new window
Includes e-books formerly in Pepperdine's ebrary and EBL collections.This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.

Finding Articles

Art Full Text
A comprehensive, international resource covering fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as photography, folk art, film, and architecture.
Full-text articles from more than 300 periodicals dating back to 1995
High-quality indexing and abstracting of over 600 periodicals dating as far back as 1984, including 280 peer-reviewed journals
Indexing and abstracting of over 13,000 art dissertations
Indexing of nearly 200,000 art reproductions
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full text coverage to peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more.

JSTOR
Used by millions for research, teaching, and learning. With more than a thousand academic journals and over 1 million images, letters, and other primary sources, JSTOR is one of the world's most trusted sources for academic content.

Los Angeles Museum Websites

MoCA (The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles)
The Broad Museum
New contemporary art museum in downtown Los Angeles opened Sept. 20, 2015
LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
The Getty Center
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Explore the collections of both venues: the Villa and Getty Center
The Fowler Museum at UCLA
Explore global arts and cultures with an emphasis on works from Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas—past and present.
Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum champions the art and artists who challenge us to see the world in a new light, to experience the unexpected, to ignite our imaginations, and inspire change.
Hammer Conversations
From big LA personalities to artists, actors and athletes, Hammer Conversations cover everything from trends, culture, psychology, science, architecture and more. Watch them on YouTube
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art

Murals in L.A.

L.A. Graffiti Black Book

Specialized Online Encyclopedias

Grove Encyclopedia of American Art (GEAA) This link opens in a new window
Entries on all aspects of American art and architecture from Native American art to Colonial art to contemporary American art.

Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques
Historical and current uses of materials and techniques in a wide range of areas from painting and sculpture to non-traditional media such as digital and video art.
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Coverage includes materials in art practice (e.g. ink, enamel, digital materials); materials in conservation (e.g. adhesives); classes of artifacts (e.g. wallpaper, mosaic, ceramic); techniques and methods (e.g. book binding, gilding, printing, weaving), terms (e.g. rustication), tools (e.g. easel, laser), theory (e.g. technical examination, conservation controversies), fakes & forgeries, and conservation theorists and practitioners.

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