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This guide can be used for lots of different types of research in Art and Visual Culture.
Getting Started in Art and Visual Research
Where to start research in AVC
New Books in Art and Visual Culture
Reference Materials
Subject-Specific Databases
Image Databases
Exhibition Reviews
Exhibition Catalogs
Documentaries and Films
Special Topics in Art and Visual Culture
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Course Guides in Art and Visual Culture
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AVC321 - Representations of Gender, Labor, and Craft in the Mediterranean
AVC276 / AMST276 - True or False Documentary Photography
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Where to start research in AVC
Getting started in research in Art and Visual Culture usually begins with:
Reference Materials
, such as encyclopedia entries or topic handbooks to get a general overview of the topic.
Dive into
Subject-specific Databases
, such as
article indexes
and
bibliographies.
Image Databases
, especially those published or digitized by university or museum collections
Exhibition Reviews
and
Exhibition Catalogs
are also excellent places to find scholarship and criticism of art and culture.
Documentaries and Films
also offer another method of engaging in ideas and biographies of artists and artworks.
New Books in Art and Visual Culture
Link to New Books in Art and Visual Culture at Ladd Library
Picasso : a cubist commission in Brooklyn / Anna Jozefacka ; with Lauren Rosati.
The land carries our ancestors : contemporary art by Native Americans
Hidden in plain sight : concealing enslavement in American visual culture
Ruth Asawa : through line
Heroes : principles of African greatness
Murakami : unfamiliar people, swelling of monsterized human ego
Art for the millions : American culture and politics in the 1930s
Visibility
Citizens of photography : the camera and the political imagination
Chakaia Booker (Institute of Contemporary Art)
The Peacock Room comes to America
Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature’s Underworld
Art of Japan : highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art
What does 'art' mean now? : the personal after the age of Romanticism and Modernism
The new public art : collectivity and activism in Mexico since the 1980s
Australian abstract : contemporary abstract painting
Tricks of the light : essays on art and spectacle
A modern history of China's art market
Drawing in the present tense
Object lessons in American art
The ghost in the city : Luo Ping and the craft of painting in eighteenth-century China
An introduction to visual culture
Viewing velocities : time in contemporary art
Monumental cares : sites of history and contemporary art
Battleground : African American art, 1985-2015
Warhol : the textiles
Art for coexistence : unlearning the way we see migration
Death's futurity : the visual life of black power
Wayward feeling : audio-visual culture and aesthetic activism in post-rainbow South Africa
Painted cloth : fashion and ritual in colonial Latin America
The art of walking : a history in 100 images
Remedios Varo
Lygia Pape
Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde
Landscapes of Extraction
Jin-Me Yoon
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