Studio Arts – Drawing Research

Background Information: Selected Sources Available in the IAIA Library

Books

Search the library catalog for books on your topic or thesis, using relevant keywords.

Visit the library’s stacks and browse call number areas:

• 740- Drawing & decorative arts
• 741- Drawing & drawings
• 742- Perspective
• 743- Drawing & drawings by subject

Also check the NC shelves (far right of collection stacks) for non-circulating books in the same call number ranges.

Selected List of Periodicals (located near the Library Study Rooms)

Library Databases (Newspaper & Journal articles)

• Academic Search Premier: A multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications.
• ARTstor: Contains approximately 300,000 images of art, architecture and archeology from a wide range of cultures and time periods.
• Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA): Comprehensive bibliography of scholarly writing covering European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present.
• GALE Cengage —Expanded Academic ASAP: Includes research, reviews, full-text articles.
• GALE Cengage- Academic OneFile: Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world’s leading journals and reference sources.
• JSTOR: An electronic archive of full-text articles from Arts & Humanities journals.
• Project Muse: Scholarly, full-text articles in the arts and humanities.

Search for the Artist’s Own Reflections

Some suggested subject headings to find material presented in the artist’s own words:

• Use the artist’s name as an author search (last name, first name)
• Use the artist’s name as a subject search (last name, first name)
• Combine the artist’s name with these terms
  • correspondence
  • diaries
  • interviews
  • journals

  Note: When searching most databases, it is possible to search the singular and plural forms of terms by using an asterisk (*). For example: diar*, interview*, journal*.

Thinking & Writing About Art