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Finding Articles

Art Full Text This link opens in a new window
Featuring full-text articles (from more than 300 journals), indexing and abstracting of an international array of publications, Art Full Text™ is a comprehensive resource covering fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as photography, folk art, film, architecture and much more.
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 nearly 9,100 journals, including over 7,900 peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more. Full-text coverage dates back to 1985 and is updated daily.

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.

Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE offers full-text current and archival articles from 600+ scholarly journals from major university presses covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more. Updated continually.
Biography in Context This link opens in a new window
Provides biographical information on more than 528,000 people throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. The database also provides full-text articles from over 350 magazines and newspapers and includes more than 27,000 images plus links to Web sites tied to the lives and works of the subjects.
Some 50,000 new and/or updated biographies are added each year, as well as daily status updates of existing subjects

Specialized Online Encyclopedias

Grove Encyclopedia of American Art (GEAA) This link opens in a new window
The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art (GEAA) deals with 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.

Getting Started

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.

Established artists and art techniques can be found in 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.

Read books online

Too Much World: the films of Hito Steyerl by Edited by Nick Aikens
ISBN: 9783956790577
Publication Date: Berlin : Sternberg ; Eindhoven : Van Abbemuseum ; Brisbane : Institute of Modern Art,2014
The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture by Charissa N. Terranova (Editor); Meredith Tromble (Editor)
ISBN: 9781138919341
Publication Date: 2016
Thirty essays from a transdisciplinary array of experts on biology in art and architecture situate bioart and bioarchitecture within an expanded field of biology in art, architecture, and design. Includes over 150 black and white images.
New Media Futures: The Rise of Women in the Digital Arts by Donna Cox (Editor); Ellen Sandor (Editor); Janine Fron (Editor)
ISBN: 9780252041549
Publication Date: 2018-06-15
Trailblazing women working in digital arts media and education established the Midwest as an international center for the artistic and digital revolution in the 1980s and beyond. New Media Futures captures the spirit and contributions of twenty-two women working within emergent media as diverse as digital games, virtual reality, medicine, supercomputing visualization, and browser-based art.
A Companion to Media Authorship by Jonathan Gray (Editor); Derek Johnson (Editor)
ISBN: 9781118495278
Publication Date: 2013-02-12
Offers 28 groundbreaking chapters which investigate the practices, attributions, and meanings of authorship. Rethinks cultures of authorship and challenges the concept of auteurism across multiple media forms. Moves beyond notions of the individual to focus on how authorship is collaborative, contested, and networked, examining cultures of authorship and the practicalities of how it works. Examines a wide range of media, including television, social media, radio, videogames, transmedia, music, and comic books. Offers an impressive global focus, including pieces on Mexican music, amateur film production in Nairobi slums, tele-serial production in Kinshasa, Hong Kong film, and the marketing of Bollywood

Search for artists in e-books:

ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Includes e-books that were formerly in Pepperdine's ebrary and EBL collections.This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.
ProQuest Ebook Central tutorials This link opens in a new window
Tutorials on how to borrow, download, annotate, and create an online bookshelf for ebooks using Ebook Central.

Useful Subject Heading

Search for online books in the catalog by subject:

ArtNews

Founded in 1902, ARTnews is the oldest and most widely circulated art magazine in the world

Librarian

Elizabeth Parang

elizabeth.parang@pepperdine.edu

Contact:

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Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Art, Art History, Creative Writing, Education, Humanities, Music, Psychology, Theatre Arts

ARTstor Images for Your Presentation/Paper

Rebecca Quaytman

Quaytman, Rebecca. The Sun (installation title) 2001 Paintings, Prints. Exhibited at Spencer Brownstone Gallery, Spring 2001 Image and original data provided by Larry Qualls. Available on ARTstor

The best place to find images for your presentation or paper is the database, ARTstor. Log on to ARTstor, create a personal account and create an image group. Then view information on how to Export to Power Point

You can search ARTstor by the name of an art work, by geography, by classification (for example, architecture), or by collection (for example, Beyond the Taj). Use the Advanced Search to limit by date.

Helpful videos on using ARTstor can be found on YouTube