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.
These online sources are good places to locate scholarly journal articles. You can also locate magazine articles, including reviews of exhibitions.
Use the library catalog to locate e-book city guides that will include information on museums and outstanding architecture
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.
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.
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