Studio Arts – Jewelry/Metals Research
Background Information: Selected Sources Available in the IAIA Library
| Art Jewelry Today 2 | 739.27 S675a |
| The Jeweler’s Studio Handbook | 739.27 H756j |
| Jewelry Design : The Artisan’s Reference | 739.27 O529j |
| North American Indian Jewelry and Adornment | 739.27 D815n |
| American Indian Jewelry 1 : 1,200 Artist Biographies | REF 739.27 S291a |
| Encyclopedia of Native American Jewelry | REF 739.27 B355e |
| St. James Guide to Native North American Artists | REF 709.22 S143 |
| The Dictionary of Art | REF 703 D554 (34 volumes) |
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:
- 730- Plastic arts, Sculpture
- 731- Processes, forms, subjects of sculpture
- 732-734- Sculpture to the year 1399
- 735- Sculpture from the year 1400 to current
- 737- Numismatics & sigillography (Coins & seals)
- 739- Art metalwork
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)
- American Craft
- Crafts Report
- Lapidary Journal/Jewelry Artist
- Metalsmith
- Ornament
- Sculpture
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*.
Writing About Art
| A Short Guide to Writing About Art | 808.0667 B261s 2008 |
| Writing About Art | 808.06 S275w |
| Writing for the Visual Arts | 808.0667 M478w |