Guides: ARTH 300 World Art History II: Home

Online Resources

The British Museum: A History of the World in 100 objects
A 100 part series by Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, exploring world history from two million years ago to the present. Objects featured in the series can be explored and their stories discovered in the Museum galleries or here on the website, by theme or gallery. You can also listen to the radio broadcasts and read their transcripts.
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History - The Metopolitan Museum of Art
A chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Museum's collection.
Smarthistory presented by Khan Academy
Smarthistory at Khan Academy is the leading open educational resource for art history making high-quality introductory art history content freely available to anyone, anywhere.

Contemporary artists

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.

Reference Sources

For background information, start with an exhaustive reference work such as Grove Art Online. Both the 'Guided Tour' and 'Tools and Resources' (available from the Home page) provide useful information on searching Grove/Oxford Art Online. The Oxford Companion to Western Art edited by Hugh Brigstocke is also part of Oxford Art Online.

To place art and architecture in context, consult Art and Humanities Through the Eras

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.

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 Islamic Art and Architecture This link opens in a new window
Covers all aspects of Islamic art and architecture ranging from the Middle East to Africa to Central, South, and East Asia, includes entries on artists, rulers, writers, ceramics, sculpture, metalwork, painting, calligraphy, textiles, and more.

Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art
Covers a wide range of subject areas, addressing people and subjects specific to all areas of Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe, and including articles on artists, artisans, patrons, painting, architecture, sculpture, cities, centres of production, theory, criticism, and more.

Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts This link opens in a new window
Entries covering thousands of years of decorative arts production throughout western and non-western cultures including the qualities and historical uses of materials and definitions on art forms and styles.
Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques This link opens in a new window
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.
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.

Locate articles in databases

Art Full Text This link opens in a new window
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

JSTOR +ARTstor
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, You can find helpful videos for using ARTstor on YouTube

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.

Streaming Videos

Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window Streaming video titles spanning subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.

Local Museum Websites

The Getty Villa
Visit the ancient world of Greece and Rome
The Getty Center
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Explore the collections of both venues: the Villa and Getty Center
Norton Simon Museum
LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
The Broad Museum
New contemporary art museum in downtown Los Angeles opened Sept. 20, 2015
The Huntington
Includes art galleries, Japanese garden and Chinese garden plus others
MoCA (The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles)
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.
The Bowers Museum
Celebrate world cultures through their arts.