art history research methodologies

AVT 600: Research

Methodologies

Library Resources Library Website:

http://library.gmu.edu Ask-a-Librarian→ IM… InfoGuides & Research Portals

Library catalog: Books & E-books Videos WRLC And more…

More Library Resources

Research Databases

Art Fulltext

Art & Architecture

Complete

*Over 500 art journals in print & online

More Library ResourcesMore Art Databases

ARTBibliographies Modern

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

artnet Price Database Decorative Art

Berg Fashion Library

Bibliography History of Art (BHA)

Design & Applied Arts (DAAI)

International Bibliography of Art (IBA)

More Library Databases

Multidisciplinary Databases

Academic Search Complete (Visual Studies)

ProQuest Research Library (Journal of Glass Studies)

JSTOR (Artibus et Historiae, Museum Studies)

Humanities International Complete (Word & Image)

Where to Search: Databases

Super Stores

ProQuest Research LibraryMulti-subject, popular & scholarly articles, extensive full-text

Academic Search CompleteMulti-subject, popular & scholarly articles, extensive full-text

Specialty StoresSubject-Based Databases

Art Full Text

Has full-text articles from over 300 journals & provides abstracts for over 600 other journals. Covers fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film & architecture.

ARTbibliographies ModernFor the study of modern &contemporary art. Covers all mediums, from painting, sculpture &photography to video, body art &graffiti. Full abstracts & indexing from the late 1960s onwards.

More Art Resources

Image Databases

Art Museum Image Gallery

Oxford Art Online

ARTstor

What are the steps in the Research Process?

1. Pick a topic

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6. Write the paper/create the project

2. Where to search

(databases)

3. How to search (keywords)

4. How to get it (find the

article)

5. Is what I’ve got any good?

How To Search

The Starbucks Syndrome

Examples Shroud of Turin Holy Shroud

Stained glass Glass painting and staining

Northern Renaissance art Renaissance—

Europe, Northern; Flemish; Dutch; Netherlands;

Netherlandish; add time period like 15th century

Research Checklist

1. Identify main concepts.

2. Narrow or broaden your topic.

3. Keep a list of terms that work best for

your topic & add to it as you go.

4. This works whether you’re writing an

exhibit label or a thesis.

InfoGuides & Research Portals

http://infoguides.gmu.edu/arth

Inside the Library

Inside the Library

Questions http://infoguides.gmu.edu/arth

Ask-a-Librarian: http://library.gmu.edu/ask

Reference desk: 703/993-2210

Visual Arts Liaison: Jenna Rinalducci

703/993-3720 or jrinaldu@gmu.edu

Example Searches• Degas OR Manet

• Catalog (InPrimo: overwhelming/off-topic but find stuff

wouldn’t find otherwise//Browsing on massive scale)

• Art & Architecture Complete

• Then add Art Full Text

– Full-text articles AND Mason Link (another DB or print;

WRLC/ILL)

– Cite & Email

• Possibly ARTbibliographies Modern or JSTOR

• ARTstor for images?