Subject Guides: CLCV 241 Macfarlane: Visual Arts

Background Information

Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window Comprehensive encyclopedia of art, with authoritative reference sources for all visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, drawing, printmaking, design, and decorative arts.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) This link opens in a new window A database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Periodical Article Indexes

Art & Architecture Source (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window Art Source covers a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. Providing over 600 full-text journals, more than 220 full-text books, and a collection of over 63,0000 images, it is designed for use by a diverse audience, including art scholars, artists, designers, students and general researchers.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window JSTOR focuses on humanities, social science, and more recently, science titles which have proven themselves vital to these disciplines and which have many years of publication, in some cases going back to the 19th century. Also searches ARTstor.
ARTbibliographies Modern (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Indexes abstracts of articles covering visual arts in the 20th century to present. Coverage is from 1974 to the present.

Ways to Search For Books

Try subject alphabetical searching for "mythology, classical in art," or search for a particular artist, or movement. Also try searching by subject KEYWORD for the character and the medium:odysseus art, etc.

HBLL Scholar Search (Keyword) This will take you to the advanced search function of the libraries Scholar Search. Select "Books" on the left hand side after you get your search results to narrow in on books available in the library.

Images

ArtStor This link opens in a new window An excellent digital image database of nearly 700,000 images from a wide range of cultures and time periods. Great zooming quality.
Images may be used for non-commercial, scholarly, and educational purposes.
Bridgeman Education This link opens in a new window With all copyright cleared for educational use, Bridgeman Education gives you access to the visual culture of every civilization and every period from Prehistory to the present day across continents and civilizations. Usage Terms: Permitted educational use means: preparation of coursework including lectures, notes, seminars, essays, dissertations and theses, which will be used or presented within the context of the courses or educational teaching offered by the institution. Specifically excluded are: Any display or exposure of images which will be made available to anyone who is not an ‘Authorised End User’. Selling or licensing coursework including the images outside the institution without paying the appropriate fee. (This means that; papers, dissertations, theses, lectures, coursework, presentations which are used or presented to persons outside the institution you belong to are excluded.)
Images may not be used in anything that will be distributed or presented outside of BYU.

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Symbolism & Iconography

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Dictionary of Classical Mythology: Symbols, Attributes and Associations - Humanities Reference BL 715 .B44 1982 Bell, Robert E. (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1982). Arranged by symbol or attribute, e.g., "lamb," "serpent," "music," showing mythological figures associated with each. Index of mythological figures in the back corresponding the figures to symbols/attributes.
A Dictionary of Pictorial Subjects from Classical Literature: A Guide to their Identification in Works of Art. - Humanities Reference N 7760 .P68 1983 Preston, Percy. (New York: Scribner, 1983).
Gods and Heroes in Art - Humanities Reference N 7660 .I4713 2003
Hidden Symbols in Art - Humanities Reference N 7740 .C34 2001 Includes a chapter about Classical Myth and Legend

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