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ART: Art & Artists Research for Studio Art Courses (2023)

A guide for students in studio art courses, created by arts Librarian Maryke Barber

Tips - finding books

While searching for your artist's name in OneSearch, try adding the following words:

  • Catalogs
  • Exhibitions
  • Criticism and interpretation (for books discussing an artist's work)

Terms for Figure Painting and drawing:

  • Figure drawing, painting
  • Figurative Art
  • Human Figure in Art
  • Women/Men in Art
  • Nude in Art
  • Male/Female Nude in Art;

Other Useful Art Subject Terms

  • Landscape drawing, painting
  • Portrait drawing, painting
  • Portraits
  • Still-life drawing, painting

Or Thematic Terms:

  • Children in art
  • Flowers in art
  • Monsters in art
  • etc.

How do I know if a book has illustrations?

Look  in the "Details" section for:

"Phys. Desc. 1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 27 cm"

ill. = illustrations.        col. = color.

More Books

Search for an item in libraries near you:
WorldCat.org >>

Worldcat: Find books in libraries worldwide, and order them via Inter-Library Loan if Hollins does not have them.

TIP: Using www.worldcat.org will sort your results by relevance; using hollins.worldcat.org will put our books first.

Google Books contains full text for books in the public domain (pre-1923); partial text for books under copyright.

Very useful for finding out which books contain information on your topic; then you can order them via inter-library loan if Hollins doesn't have them.