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The Getty Research Institute Library

If you cannot locate adequate information in Pepperdine Libraries or through InterLibrary Loan, you may wish to visit the Getty Research Institute Library at 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles 90049. However, you will need to plan ahead and contact the library in advance. Read through the information on "Visiting the Research Library". Submit the Research Library Request Form

Getty Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)

Union List of Artist Names Online
The ULAN is an evolving vocabulary, growing and changing thanks to contributions from Getty projects and other institutions.

ARTstor Images for Your Paper & Presentation

Hockney, David. Flowers Sent as a Gift. 1995, Oil on canvas. Exhibited at André Emmerich Gallery, Spring 1996. Image and original data provided by Larry Qualls. 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 UTube

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, Theatre Arts

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
JSTOR
Access the journal archives Arts & Sciences I, II, & III, and over 40,000 ebooks on the JSTOR platform; book chapters and journal articles are cross-searchable. JSTOR is an extensive archive of interdisciplinary journals and books

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
The Getty Research Institute provides access to the BHA and to the Repertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA) for no charge on its Web site. The databases, searchable together, cover material published between 1975 and 2007.

Project MUSE
Offers full-text current and archival articles from 600+ scholarly journals from major university presses; also includes Open Access books. Continually updated.
Dissertations & Theses Global (ProQuest)
Access to nearly 3 million searchable citations, the most comprehensive collection of doctoral dissertations and master's theses in the world.

Getting Started

For background information, start with an exhaustive reference work such as Grove Art Online. The online edition is updated regularly. A print copy (The dictionary of art) is available in the Starr Collection: Starr N 31 .D5 1996

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 'E-journals' search feature on the Library's Web site.

Online books

The Art of Art History (2d ed.) by Donald Preziosi
ISBN: 019155202X
Publication Date: 2009-02-01
A critical reading of the field's most innovative and influential texts over the past two centuries, including the most important new writing on the most recent work in a variety of new media.
Key Writers on Art: from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century by Chris Murray (Editor)
ISBN: 9780415243018
Publication Date: 2002-12-27
Arranged chronologically to provide an historical framework, the 43 entries analyze the ideas of key philosophers, historians, art historians, art critics, artists and social scientists, including Plato, Aquinas, Alberti, Michelangelo, de Piles, Burke, Schiller, Winckelmann, Kant, Hegel, Burckhardt, Marx, Tolstoy, Taine, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Ruskin, Pater, Wölfflin and Riegl.

Online books can be found through a search of the library catalog; limit your search result to Format: Book: ebook Many ebooks can be read by multiple people at the same times

You can search the full-text of books in collections of e-books such as:

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.
JSTOR
Access over 40,000 ebooks on the JSTOR platform; book chapters and journal articles are cross-searchable.
Getty Publications Virtual Library This link opens in a new window
The Virtual Library includes titles published by the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Conservation Institute, and the Getty Research Institute.
Getty Research Portal
A virtual library of art history texts, digitized art history publications, rare books, and related literature.

MetPublications
Five decades of Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art) publications on art history, available to read, download, and/or search for free.

Other collections containing some books on art and art history topics:

ACLS Humanities E-Book
ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) Humanities E-Book titles, which include many CAA (College Art Association) Monographs on the Fine Arts, have been selected and peer reviewed by ACLS constituent learned societies for their continued importance and value in teaching and researching. You can locate the CAA books by performing a publisher search.

Chicago Style Citation Guidelines

Citation Style Guides:

The Chicago Manual of Style Online
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You may be asked log-in and in that case use your student log-in ID and Password
Purdue OWL
Chicago documentation style

Web Links to Art

Course Description

An upper-division discussion seminar designed to be a critical examination of the history of the discipline of art history. Includes a study of the primary literature that has defined past and present art historical practice.

ARTH 390 Methodological Approaches to Art History