Visual Arts & New Media
A Quick Guide

Books and Other Media

• Reed Library Catalog: -- locate materials in Reed Library
• WorldCat: Locate materials in other libraries, and request via interlibrary loan.

Journals/Articles

• Academic Search Premier: Find information on almost any topic! Contains  the full text of over 4,450 magazines, journals and newspapers and indexing for many, many more. Coverage dates back to 1975 for many publications. A great starting point for research!

Reference

• ArtStor: Contains over 550,000 high quality images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library: A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
• Visual Arts Books in the Reference Collection
• Graphic Design Books in the Reference Collection
• Illustration Books in the Reference Collection

More Guides

• Art Guide: This guide contains the basic materials/reference to begin research in the field of art and art history

Other Tools

• ArtCyclopedia: Has biographies, links to online exhibits and other information pertaining to art and artists.
• ArtRenewal: An online museum of art and artists.
• MassArt Art Links: From the Massachusettes College of Art
• INTUTE: Arts and Humanties
• The Design & Publishing Center
• Graphic Designer's Paradise
• Ad*Access (Duke University)
  More than 7,000 advertisements printed between 1911-1955 in five major categories: Beauty and Hygiene; Radio; Television; Transportation; and World War II.