Skip to main content

Illustration: Background

The tabs above list various types of resources for your research in visual arts: background information, books, journal and magazine articles, digital images, and websites. See also other "Related Guides" for architecture, costume, etc.

"The Gnomon Workshop": Online Tutorials

BYU Online Subscription
Comprehensive digital production tutorials covering tools and applications in the film and game industries, industrial design, illustration, and animation. The Lee Library has a subscription to 10 simultaneous users, as well as several DVDs on the north side of level 4.
Selected DVDs on Level 4, north wing
Besides the online subscription, the library also has several DVDs, located on the north wing of level 4.

Background Sources

Print sources are located in the Humanities Reference area (by the Help Desk) on level 5.

Doyle. History of Illustration. HUMREF NC 998 .H46 2018
Male. Companion to Illustration. NC 950 .C66 2019
Reed. The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000. HUMREF NC 975 .R4 2001
Horne. Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators. HUMREF NC 978 .H67x 1994
Romanticism and Illustration. NC 978 .R64 2019
Spirit of the Ages | The Golden Age of Illustration:
National Museum of American Illustration (Newport, RI)
Gallery of over 150 American illustrators in the collection.
American Art Archives
Contains profiles of nearly 200 American illustrators with examples of their work. Compiled by T. Clement.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (Gale)

History of Illustration by Susan Doyle, ed.
Call Number: HumRef NC 998 .H46 2018 + E-book
ISBN: 9781628927559
Publication Date: 2018

Illustration & Business

Science Fiction

The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction
Call Number: PZ 4 .A2 C31 2003 / 2012 ed. is ebook
ISBN: 0521816262
The Golden Age of Science Fiction
Call Number: PN 3433.5 .W33x 2019
ISBN: 9781526729255
Animating the Science Fiction Imagination
Call Number: NC 1766 .U5 T453 2018
Video Gaming in Science Fiction
Call Number: GV 1469.3 .B37x 2018
ISBN: 9781476666372
Science Fiction of the 20th Century
Call Number: Quarto PZ 4 .A2 R635 1999

Fine Arts Librarian

Christiane Ramsey

Contact:

5447 HBLL
801.422.6731

PLEASE EMAIL ME FOR VIRTUAL ZOOM APPOINTMENTS

Subjects:Art History & Visual Arts

GET HELP

Click on the Live Chat box below:

Humanities Help Desk
Level 5
Hours:
M-TH 8am-9pm
F 8am-6pm
SAT 10am-6pm

801.422.4006
humref@byu.edu

Art in the Library

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Media Services, level 4

Check out the Creative Media area on level 4 with wide format printer, 3D printer, 3D scanner, cardboard model printer, VR, etc.