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LA Area Museum Websites

The Getty Villa
Visit the ancient world of Greece and Rome
The Getty Center
The collection, changing exhibitions, and outdoor art on view at the Getty Center reach across European and American history—from medieval times to the present.
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.
LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
The largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection that includes over 120,000 objects dating from antiquity to the present, encompassing the geographic world and nearly the entire history of art.
California African American Museum (CAAM)
CAAM’s deepest holdings include art made or connected to African Americans in California and the western United States.
Museum of Contemporary Art
Dedicated to collecting and exhibiting contemporary art, the museum houses roughly 7000 objects and has a diverse history of ground-breaking, historically-significant exhibitions.
The Broad Museum
New contemporary art museum in downtown Los Angeles opened Sept. 20, 2015
Norton Simon Museum
Approximately 1,000 works from the permanent collection of 12,000 objects are on view in the Norton Simon Museum’s galleries and sculpture garden throughout the year.
Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens
A collections-based research and educational institution serving scholars and the general public.
Autry Museum of the American West
The Autry features world-class galleries filled with Native American art and cultural materials, film memorabilia, historic firearms, paintings, interactive areas.

ArtNews

Founded in 1902, ARTnews is the oldest and most widely circulated art magazine in the world. ARTnews (available on Flipster) reports on the art, personalities, issues, trends and events shaping the international art world. Recent news:

Course Description

Art in the City introduces students to the visual arts within the context of a given setting. Through this course, students will gain a deeper understanding of the art that they are exposed to while studying and living in one of our Pepperdine campuses worldwide. Students will learn to analyze paintings, drawings, sculpture, and architecture that they encounter in visits to museums, architectural monuments, art galleries, and on walking tours.

Finding Articles

These online sources are good places to locate scholarly journal articles. You can also locate magazine articles, including reviews of exhibitions.

Art Full Text
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

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.

Academic Search Complete
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.

Some Examples of Books located via the Library Catalog

Art and the City: civic imagination and cultural authority in Los Angeles by Sarah Schrank
ISBN: 9780812204100
Publication Date: 2014-10-01
Los Angeles in recent years has received international media attention as one of the world's new art centers. Schrank places this celebrated arrival in the richer context of art controversies and political contests over modern art and art spaces in the twentieth century.
World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti by Rafael Schacter
ISBN: 9781742233772
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Spontaneous, in-your-face and unauthorised, the work of street artists and graffiti writers demands our attention. Wildly creative and often subversive, street art shows that just because a work isn't in a gallery doesn't mean itOCOs not art. From Sao Paolo to Sydney, New York to Tokyo, these artists exhibit their work in the world's most accessible museum - the street - sharing their vision with a public unable to avoid their work, like it or not.
Creating the Future by Michael Fallon
ISBN: 9781619023437
Publication Date: 2014-09-09
Conceived as a challenge to long-standing conventional wisdom, Creating the Future is a work of social history/cultural criticism that examines the premise that the progress of art in Los Angeles ceased during the 1970s and didn't resume until sometime around 1984. However, this is far from the reality of the L.A. art scene in the 1970s. Fallon's narrative describes and celebrates, through twelve thematically arranged chapters, the wide range of intriguing artists and the world--not just the objects--they created. Coming into being right before their eyes was an ardent local feminist art movement, which had lasting influence on the direction of art across the nation; an emerging Chicano Art movement, spreading Chicano murals across Los Angeles and to other major cities; a new and more modern vision for the role and look of public art; a slow consolidation of local street sensibilities, car fetishism, gang and punk aesthetics into the earliest version of what would later become the "Lowbrow" art movement.
Walking L. A. by Erin Mahoney Harris; Zach Behrens
ISBN: 9780899978277
Publication Date: 2017-05-02
Discover LA's hidden streets, architectural masterpieces, Hollywood romance, lost canyons, and diverse culture. Each self-guided tour includes a detailed map, original photograph, and public transportation information. On every urban trek, you'll soak up the LA vibe, from quirky art to world-class museums to of-the-moment shops and restaurants.

Use the library catalog to locate e-book city guides that will include information on museums and outstanding architecture

ARTstor Images

Larry Bell, American, 1939-. 1961. Untitled. Place: Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kantor. https://library.artstor.org/asset/AWSS35953_35953_41381509.

Find images for your presentation or paper in the database, ARTstor. Log on to ARTstor, create a personal account and create an image group. Then view information on how to Export of Power Point Helpful videos on using ARTstor can be found on UTube

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

Background Information

For background information, start with an exhaustive reference work such as Grove Art Online. The Oxford Companion to Western Art edited by Hugh Brigstocke is also part of 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 'Databases and E-Journals' search feature on the Library's Web site.

Murals in L.A.

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